Real God Questions You'll Never Hear From The Presidential Candidate Jesus's Name Dropers

I received this from a friend:

A Thought for you.... (if you believe there is a burning Hell)

"If an endless hell of torment for the wicked is a necessary part of God's arrangement, and if God has to have a Devil employed to run the place and keep the fires going, then there is no getting around the fact that God and the Devil are business associates and good friends. If there is an endless hell of torment in God's scheme at all, it is a very important part of the scheme; and surely God would not appoint his worst enemy to such an important position as general supertindent of hell.

Suppose for the sake of argument that God needs an endless hell in His business and suppose that God had employed his enemy to run the place, do you not see that the enemy could take advantage of God and let the fire go smack out or that he might go to the other extreme and waste the brimstone or burn out the flues and do much damage that way?

Where there is so much fire there would be constant danger of having the whole place burn up.

So you see God would need a man on the job that he could trust, one who could be depended upon to run Hell in a perfectly honest and Christian-like manner.

Now, I put it up to you plainly and honestly:

If the Devil is as mean and low-down and tricky as people say he is,

do you honestly believe God would keep such a character on His payroll

throughout eternity and trust him with the all-important business affairs of the everlasting life work?

What do you think about it?"--Unknown

Rev. Sandi claims to have proof on the (gasp!) church bulletin board that cuz Jim worked in the kitchen on Thanksgiving. Still, she has credability when it comes to theology. Here's her response:

The article you sent led me to A New Handbook of Christian Theology which points out that we have 3 separate propositions about evil which traditional Christianity affirms: (1) God, the creator, is omnipotent (all-powerful); (2) God is benevolent (all-good); and (3) evil exits. Another way to state the dilemma is this: If God is able to prevent evil (as #1 implies) and does not, then #2 must be false. If God wants to prevent evil (as #2 implies) and cannot, then #1 must be false. If God is able and willing and does, in fact, prevent evil, then #3 must be false.

The author of the article points out that as long as human suffering and belief in a loving God coexist, people will continue to wrestle with the problem of evil, and Christian theology will, at its best, employ its reflective resources to help them live with the question.
My answer to the closing question, "What do you think about it?" is that humanity is given free will...we choose our own hell, the place of brokenness and separation, an emptiness that is beyond the range of our language.

See, also Battleground God & Do It Yourself Deity.

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