Unbelievers love to point out what they say are flaws in Christian faith. Like, how can you reconcile a loving God with all the pain in the world? Do you believe, for a second, that love and pain are mutually exclusive?
The correct answer is: Love and pain are not mutually exclusive.
With a good combination of love and logic, it’s easy to show them the error in their assertion. I love how C.S. Lewis stated it:
“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word love, and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest well pleased.”
But love from God doesn’t entice most people.
It’s sad how often someone who has such disdain for Christianity uses its doctrine instead of their own to try and ridicule or debunk it. They know their own worldview of complete, blanketed tolerance would necessitate accepting whatever a Christian says or does as simply “doing what he feels is right”.
If they could just leave it at that, at least they’d be living true to their so-called love for tolerance and diversity. But they’re not interested in merely co-existing. They want to negate and obliterate even the notion of a living, loving Creator God.
So…I say we Christians should stand boldly and proudly with the likes of C.S. Lewis and do our best to expose and negate the thoughtless, careless, and loveless doctrines of humanism and self-worship. Both love and pain will be involved, but…are you with me?
Stay tuned,
Tony