Makes one believe that there is no god or perhaps a God who does not care, which is the same.
Yes it takes great faith to trust that despite all the evil WE brought into the world by our disobedience, God still has wonderful plan for those who put their trust in Him- Takes great faith to trust that a Sovereign God has the right to order everything good and bad, to complete His plan for mankind- We had God’s absolute best for us in the garden, but WE decided we were much wiser than God and decided not to trust His word- God warned us- but we didn’t listen- Nop-e Wee were just much to smart- Now that we’re dealing with the results of our disobedience, God is completing his plan for us in His ALLOWED Will (which is much different than His perfect will)- and because He is a God of justice- and a God who allowed free will- knowing we would disobey- He must ALLOW our consequences for disobedience to play out in order for us to have free will
Yes, it takes great faith- however- the alternative is still eternity in hell- I’ll choose great faith-
and by “order everything good and bad,” I mean He ALLOWS The Evil One to rule this world temporarily- but the Evil One can do nothing unless God allows it- Since man decided to listen to the Evil One- and Not Him, He is ALLOWING us ot face the consequences of our decision- and ALLOWING the Evil One to do the Evil WE decided to follow when we disobeyed God-
See- We didn’t think God was serious about sin- We tho0ught He was just joking, or that the consequences wouldn’t be that bad- but God is a perfectly Holy God- and He MUST judge sin severely-
But the good news is that He has provided a way to escape the condemnation of our souls- He ordered His only Son to die on the cross for us- and all those who accept Him as Savior have their sins forgiven- HOWEVER, We still must deal with the consequences of original sin- That isn’t going away- God was very serious when He told man not to sin- man didn’t listen- now we’re finding out just how serious He was about sin, and we just don’t like it- Noone likes taking responsibility for their actions- but it doesn’t matter whether we like it, accept it or not- we ARE going to continue taking responsibility for what WE decided to do (and yes, every one of us would have disobeyed God at some point- But why would God create us knowing that? Because of free will and sovereign love- We can’t truly love God, or anyone really, UNLESS there is a reason to love them out of free will- and ion order to have free will, one MUST have the ability to CHOOSE good or bad-)
There’s a God- And Yes, God does care- He cares deeply- so deeply that He gave us free will- even knowing that some would reject Him-