Quote:
Originally Posted by zeek
Discussion of the depravity of humanity brings to mind the following questions for your consideration:
"If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to
Then he is not omnipotent.
If he is able, but not willing
Then he is malevolent.
If he is both able and willing
Then whence cometh evil?
If he is neither able nor willing
Then why call him God?"
|
Fine. God is willing to prevent evil, He is able to, and His plan is being carried out before your eyes. The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, but only a fraction of the age of the universe which is estimated around 13 billion years. According to the NT plan it will take approximately 10,000 years for the entire plan on dealing with Evil to be carried out. That is less than one millionth of the age of the universe.
Let's put that into a time frame we can understand. I worked on the Irving meeting hall from the very beginning until the Peter Training when it held 2,000 saints. That took 18 months, and most of those days were 16 hour days. But lets assume we were working for 24 hours a day, because for quite a bit of the project there was a night crew.
Therefore, if some "project" took slightly less than 38 seconds it would be analagous to the amount of time God is spending on dealing with evil.