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Is everything that happens God's will? Many times people, without knowing who God is and how he acts, try with the little or none knowledge they actually hold or some, to explain what God is about and unfortunately many fall into delusions and heresies.
Many people say that God is a God of love. Can the God of love allow evil? or a disaster to happen, a death or an accident? Where is God's love? Is it possible from the God of love to emanate evil? Many people ask.
His voluntary concession allows earthquakes, diseases, pandemics, only out of love. As the parent act out of love when they scold their child who is small and does not behave properly. The parent, because he loves his child and wants to protect him from harm, sometimes he punishes to save him.
But when a man, and even more so a Christian man, reads and studies about God, through the Bible and the Saints of our Church, he will realize the voluntary concession of God. God wants us to be close to Him as He is our Father. If we do not want this and it is evident from the life we lead, then God turns away.
When God turns away, then "darkness" comes, just as it happens with the planet sun, where its absence brings darkness. So God allows, through the "darkness" that comes from His absence, for any kind of event to appear in our lives. He allows this only out of love, He loves us and in His way He tries to make us seek Him and go to Him in order to be saved.
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Episode No 39
“Is it God's will ?
May 2020
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