Some do ask this question and some do wonder whether
God is cruel or they assume that he is. Why?
Some people who survive natural disaster ask; “Why
does God allow these things to happen? Is he in-different? Or is he cruel?”
Others are similarly troubled when reading the Bible. They come upon such
accounts as the one about Noah and the Flood, and they wonder, ‘why would a
loving God put all those people to death? Is He cruel?’
Do such questions occur to you at times? Or do you
find yourself unable to give an answer to those who wonder if God is cruel? In
either case, consider a different question that may help.
WHY DO WE HATE CRUELTY?
We simply hate cruelty because we
have a sense of right and wrong. We differ greatly from animals in that
respect; our creator made us in His image, what does that mean? He gave us the
capacity to reflect his qualities and moral standards, his sense of right and
wrong. Consider this: If we received our sense of right and wrong from God and
we tend to hate cruelty, does that not suggest that God hates it too?
The scriptures confirm such
logic, for in the scriptures, God assures us that “His ways are higher than our
ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts”. If we were to judge God to be cruel,
would we not be stating the opposite, in effect saying that our ways are higher
than His ways? It would surely be wise to gather more facts before taking such
a stand. Perhaps we should ask, not whether God is cruel, but some of his
actions may appear to be cruel.
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