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Praise the Lord

July 3, 2022 at 3:09 pm Leave a comment

The butterfly on the praying man’s shoulder shows the beauty of God’s creation. If everything on earth was made by the one God, and if it’s true that this God is beautiful or is Beauty itself, we can rightly feel that order, pleasure and beauty are the norm. That’s the way creation is and should be according to God’s order.

Of course, we then have to explain the disorder, the ugliness, the pain and illness we find everywhere in this world.

But the point is that if the one God is good, which I firmly believe, then we have to talk of “the problem of evil”, not the “problem of good”, because the good things should be the norm according to God’s order.

We often tend to think that evil is overwhelming (especially when we read news of war, famine, accidents, etc or suffer of illness, anxiety and pain ourselves). But there still is so much beauty in this “fallen world” that we can believe that we were made for something better and by Someone Better.

And if that God is for us, there is enough reason for faith, hope and love. And if God us for us, who can be against us?

(cf. Michael Lloyd, Cafe Theology – Exploring Love, the Universe and Everything, 3rd edition, 2018, 38 f)

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