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A small group of North Fresno Church attenders are currently reading and discussing Donald Miller’s book, Searching for God Knows What. We also get together to discuss a chapter or two each Thursday morning, at 7:30 in the Dream Room at Whispering Woods.
If you can’t make it in person, we welcome you to participate by reading along and commenting on the posts that will be here for each chapter.
If you can’t make it in person, we welcome you to participate by reading along and commenting on the posts that will be here for each chapter.
2 comments:
It seems to me that Miller is dealing with the
universal question of the origin of evil. War,
terrorism, Chernobyl, illness-where did they come from
since God created everything!
Theologians and philosophers have struggled with this
question for ages. And Miller doesn't have an answer
any better than all the thinkers of the past and
present. Miller does remind us that the battle is
more than an "earthly" battle. For each of us and for
all of us it is also (and mostly) a spiritual battle.
I don't know where evil comes from. But I know it is
here. I have never seen God or Jesus or the Holy
Spirit, but I know that the triune God is able to give
us "strength, peace, comfort and all the other good
things that contrast with evil."
I have met people who have denied the existence of God
the Creator, but they still have to deal with evil and
they can't explain where everything originally came
from. I think we "believers" have it better than
the atheists. A whole lot better!
Larry Warkentin
I don't know if the previous comment went out to everyone, but I put it up here. It is from Larry Warkentin.
I like this chapter. The stories...the wrestling...seem to be getting at something. Life and death are significant aspects of our lives and humanness. Some have said that the problem of evil is the toughest issue for Christians and the existence of God. I think just the opposite. The existence of evil and the stories Miller tells, and what we see in the world around us help us see that God is in those places, and where would we turn if there was no God (I think back to the meditation on Mary Magdalene and enduring the darkness I read this past Sunday). But the fall...sin...certainly is part of this. Where do we find the most LIFE, real living, in the world today? When we are part of what God is up to in places of pain and injustice, and looking to the triune God to help us in our own woundedness and warring souls.
Looking forward to good conversation tomorrow morning.
James
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