How would you answer this question? Many Christians are perplexed by the implications of such questions. Atheists often pose similar questions that throw them for a loop. Well, if the answer puzzles you, I hope that there will no longer be any reason for you to be stumped by it after you have read this brief article.
The Christian answer clearly is “yes,” and “no.” How can that be? Well, the fact that the matter can be viewed from two perspectives is precisely what confuses some. They look at it from one alone, and therefore, come up with a less than satisfying answer. What are those two perspectives, and how do they clear up matters that otherwise might be confusing?
There is God’s perspective, and there is man’s. From God’s perspective, of course, what is, is what ought to be. How could it be otherwise? He is sovereign and His will is fulfilled in His providential working in history—both history in general, and in the history of each person.
But there is Man’s perspective. Of course, we fail to do God will, and thus bring upon ourselves heaps of trouble. But the question remains, how can what is be what
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