Ridiculous question! As IF!!! Evidently New York Times op-ed author Shalom Auslander has decided that God is just too brutal, causes too many wars because he’s just too hateful. Really?
God who formed you lovingly, Mr. Auslander, IN your mother is the creator of wars? Could it be, Mr. Auslander, that it’s actually the evil in you and me – ALL of mankind – that creates all the brutality, hatred, envy, and all the other god-LESSness that leads to war? I have a feeling you and the countless others who blame God for what man does freely all have the same problem – you are blind to just how utterly depraved your sin nature really is. You think more highly of yourself than you ought. What every human is capable of in the most deviant, unspoken part of their soul is what you REALLY are without restraint. The restraints – be it parental guidance, moral compass, fear of getting caught – is God’s common grace. We should all be thankful for it. Look around us now. With parents not married and not parenting their kids, calls for limiting police, District Attorneys refusing to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, and leftist judges sentencing soft terms are drastically challenging societal common grace. That can never be put on God. God gave this country the best founding leaders who had a great sense of societal parameters within our God-given freedoms but MAN has been the ONLY reason we are looking at such a decline. It was NOT God.
I know Mr. Auslander does not believe Jesus is God’s Son and I am sad for him. After growing up in Jewish home how can he learn how our same God delivered his ancestors from one captivity to another with miracle after miracle and yet now declare God hateful? To be that intimately knowledgeable with the God of the Universe’s direct involvement with his people and not see His love is like sitting with your dying 90 year old mother and the only thing you can think of is that one time she yelled at you. Get over yourself and learn that God is way more than what you feel.
God – who IS the embodiment of love – He has proven His love from eternity past to day 1 of creation to the fall in the garden and providing a plan to crush satan and sin forever. Tomorrow is a celebration of the FACT that Christ IS Risen! Death is no more! God IS Love!
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