We are too limited to fault God!
I had read stories about the recent building collapse, in a social media platform, someone had repudiated the validity of prayer, trying to fault God,purporting that he saved some persons while he left others to die in anguish.

While it is true that any one other than an atheist, who miraculously survives a fatal incident will most likely attribute it to God whether or not there is any valid causal connection, it is fallacious to assume that God is responsible for those who unfortunately couldn't survive.

Firstly we need to understand that when it comes to pain, suffering and death, there are many variables that we human cannot thoroughly understand, it is only when we're privileged to grapple with the big picture that we can be able to pronounce a conclusion as to whether God exists or not, or as to whether prayers are useless or not.

In the legal jurisprudence, for every matter that heads to the court. Conclusions are not just drawn up on one point of view, because the honourable court understands there are many issues or variables to be considered. Eg a bystander who sees a man inflicting injury on a girl until the girl dies, will easily conclude that the man must be responsible and must pay with his life and any verdict short of that is injustice. But it could be that the man had not deliberately taken the life of the girl, it could be that a malicious third party had laced his drink with an overpowering drug which then upsetted his mental state and uncontrollably leading to the murder. Under our criminal code, by section 29(2). A person who commits an offence under the state of intoxication caused by the malicious act of a third party, can not be held guilty.

Secondly, I will give another scenario, a friend of mine had a father who took unjustly from the coffers of others. He enriched himself at the expense of others, later on they came for him spiritually, their intent was to kill him, they orchestrated a stroke and he was bedridden for almost a year. Luckily, revelations came since the wife was a believer. The revelation was simple with solutions, the pastor directed the wife to tell her husband, to make reparations or restitutions for his deeds and he will be well, but the husband even on his deathbed refused on the basis of human pride, and consequently died.

The above actual story is very important, because any of you may for instance be a friend to that man,perhaps he is good to you and helps your family, you may be praying vehemently that God should heal him, and when he eventually did die, you may by depression be forced to conclude that prayer is useless or that God does not exist. But in fact you had not seen the big picture.

Take another instance, of a promising young man, who labels himself as a freethinker, about to get married to a lady who has been looking for a man to marry and finally one is here, she is elated and praising God. Maybe a prophecy comes, and the man is asked to be prayerful that the enemies are not happy because he is excelling, and now wants to settle down. He quickly dismisses such claims as being superstitious, and consequently dies from a brief illness, in such an instance, if the man never told the lady about the revelation, the lady may begin to think prayer is useless, God does not care, for how many years she's waited to get married, why now. Etc but in fact she is not seeing the big picture.

Also we must note that death is as well a natural phenomena and does have some natural implications attached to it. If a building collapses, naturally a person with asthma or a person hypertensive or an infant, naturally has less likelihood of survival than a full grown man.

Lastly, coming from a theo-philosophical dimension, it is totally wrong and against the new testament principles and tenets of Christ teachings, to accept and absorb the popular belief that whatever happens, good or bad is the will of God. The disastrous implication of this belief is the subtle fusion of God and the devil. God as supremely manifested in the person of Christ is good and there is no evil in him, the devil for ages has intrinsically been evil and remains evil, there is no good in him, it is impossible for a person not to be and be at the same time, otherwise is against the fundamental principles of noncontradiction, therefore God can only be good. The Bible teaches that the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for whom to devour. The ministry of Jesus Christ espouses on the concept of warfare theodicy, when Christ healed the woman who had been with back pain for 17 years, unlike popular belief, he did not say it is the will of God that the woman should suffer these while, he said the woman has been under the influence of the devil and must be healed today. Daniel prayed for days and got no answer because the prince persia had intercepted his supplications. When Christ taught the disciples how to pray, he said pray to the father, that his will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The implication of this is that the universe is engulfed in a cosmic battle under which there is a consistent conflict between the will of God, that of man and the devil.

Pain, suffering and death may also result from one's own wrong freewill, if a man is told to build a bulwark against the raging hurricane about to hit the city and he pockets the money to his own selfish end, when the hurricane finally hits, people will die, and it will be clueless to say it is the will of God, all that is consequential is that one day everyone will account for his or her actions before God, including a person's whose exercise of free will led to the pain, suffering and death of others. This pivot is critical because freewill is the basis of responsibility, and without freewill there is no responsibility, and it is because God has given us free will to do good or bad, to kill or to save, to feed or to starve, that is why he has the moral authority to hold us accountable for our actions one day. To assume without qualifications that all that happens is the will of God, is to confuse omniscience with causality and at worst to fuse virtue with vice in the person of God and the devil.

God as manifested in the person of Christ longs for a day when there will be no more pain, suffering and death, when crying and mourning shall cease and the righteous reign of Christ shall ensue. See revelations 21.
Prayer is useful, God exists and one day everything will get better. Amen.

Wow, very educative and mind opening. I'd be glad if the mods can move this to the front page so that more people can learn from this great write-up.

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