The Tulip Driven Life

"But suffering naturally produces in the spectators (unless they are unusually depraved) no bad effect, but a good one- pity. Thus that evil that God chiefly uses to produce the 'complex good' is most markedly disinfected, or deprived of that proliferous tendency which is the worst characteristic of evil in general." C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, 117 "And we know all things that work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." God, Romans 8:28 "Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish." Jesus, Luke 13:4-5. The question I am addressing is a slight twist, or narrowing of scope really, of a question many have asked: "Why do bad things happen to good people?" The answer to the above question, of course, is...

Chapter 3 of my Treatise of Calvinism:                I was always taught, as long as I could remember, that God knew all things. And, if we leave it at that, that is believable enough. After all, if God can create everything out of nothing, then for Him to be able to know all things isn’t really a stretch. The limits of my human mind and ability are not a good reason to demand that God be limited to only that which I myself can understand and do. Anyone who thinks like that is not a Christian, for they would never believe in a God greater than them, since from the outset they remove the possibility of God doing anything or knowing anything that they themselves cannot do or at least fathom.                 So it is certainly acceptable, and reasonable, to believe that God knows all things, past, present, and future, even though I cannot. How...