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When everything in life is right and you’re perfectly happy, have you ever found yourself crying out to the Devil: “My Satan, my Satan, why have you abandoned me? Why are allowing so many good things
to happen to me? Why are allowing me to be so happy?” Probably not. But why not? We do cry out to God this way when we suffer, when we feel overwhelmed by life, when we feel like He’s giving us too
much to handle. Why do we protest to Him why we suffer, but never think to complain when everything is going right?
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My favorite movie of all time, hands down, is Forrest Gump. I love that movie for so many reasons. But one of the primary reasons is the love story between Forrest and his childhood sweetheart, Jenny. Jenny is his neighbor and the only real friend he has as a kid. Everyone else makes fun of him. From the first moment, Forrest falls in love with her, even though she just thinks of him as a friend.
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Last week, I shared why I, as a skeptic living in our modern scientific world, have felt compelled to accept the fact that miracles are possible and that Jesus performed miracles. However, there’s still one other problem I’ve had in accepting them: Why does God perform them for some people but not others? Why doesn’t He heal everyone who needs it? This arbitrariness is hard to reconcile with a God of love.
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Story after story of miraculous healing. That’s a good description of a two-volume book Craig Keener has written. Keener is a very well respected, mainstream Scripture scholar who, for much of his life, wondered what to make of miracles. He grew up as an atheist and tends, especially as a scholar, to be skeptically minded. So, over the years since he became a Christian and began pursuing biblical scholarship, he’s wondered.
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Years ago, when I was first entertaining the idea that Christianity might be true, I wandered into our local public library and happened upon an article that claimed Jesus never existed. He wasn’t a real historical person but just a myth made up by the early Christians. As I recall, this article was written by a scholar, someone with a Phd. after their name, someone who supposedly knew what they were talking about. So, I didn’t know who to believe. Had I been fooled, along with everyone else who believed in Jesus?
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There’s something I need to address. I’ve addressed it before. But, I keep hearing people repeating this “truism” which, just isn’t true. And, it’s easy enough to show why.
