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How Could God
How Could God?
· Allow Cain to kill righteous Able [sic]?
· Allow John the Baptist, the forerunner of the Messiah, be beheaded?
· Allow James the Apostle be killed?
· Allow Herod to kill innocent baby boys?
· Allow the tower of Siloam to fall on innocent people?
To attempt to answer these questions is a fruitless endeavor. Unless and until we are informed, we cannot and will not know. Speculation is futile.
One thing we do know for certain is that “allowing” and “causing” are two different actions. God may choose not to intervene and thereby “allow.” God may choose to act and thereby “intervene.” He has done both in the history as recorded in the Old and New Testaments. Why and how He acts is beyond our comprehension. His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are above our ways of thinking.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9
Job demanded answers from God. God’s only answer was that He was the Almighty One and Job was in no position to make demands.
We are not counselors of God, nor has anyone instructed Him. Mankind’s only option is to trust in the Lord for help and salvation.
“Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or as His counselor has informed Him? With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding? And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge, and informed Him of the way of understanding?” Isaiah 40:13-14
