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Question:

My friend and I read your comments to my question. We agreed with a lot of them, but they did provoke more questions. Yes, we believe that God allows evil and if He did intervene then our free will is taken away. And we believe that God will judge them and bring justice when they eventually face Him. But...our question is why does God seem to pick and choose to intervene in some acts of evil and not others? For example, why did my friend survive meningitis as a freshman in college when the doctors told her she should have died only to be raped as a junior in college? There are times, I think, where she wished she would have died. Why does it seem that God intervened in the one situation and not the other? How is that allowing free will? Answer:

I Like your questions. You get right to the matter. Since God is his own person, there are reasons for his decisions and acts that are known only to him. It is my belief also, that if God did attempt to explain certain things to us, we may still not undertsand. Jesus told his disciples in John 3:12:

"I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? ".

I have a 2 year old son. There are things I will need to tell him. Beautiful and horrible things about the world, but it would either confuse him, scare him, or mean nothing at this stage. He is only two and unable to grasp certain realities. He knows this, I love him.

I don't know why those horrible things happen to you and your friend, but I know this, God deeply loves you. I realize this is an easy thing to say, so let me back it up historically. There is no religion under heaven where it can be proven in history that God loves his creation but Chritsianity. John 3:16:

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whosever believes in him, would not perish, but have eternal life".

God came in Jesus to identify with our suffering and and forgive our sins. He wants us to love him and experience and know his love.

In the book of Jerimiah 29:11-14 God say's:

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD , "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD , ".

God is always calling, always pleading us to come. We are told in the Bible, that we will have suffering in this world, but that the sorrow of this present world is not to be compared with the joy that is ahead of us. There is rest at the end of this road, and it is a rest that can never be broken again. Jesus said "He whom I set free, is free indeed".