If God is in Control, Why is the World Such a Mess?
“Your God seems like a real jerk.”
I plucked this line from a book by one of my favorite authors, quoting an agnostic friend.
I certainly get it. This animosity toward God. The sense that the man upstairs is sleeping on the job while the world goes to crap. I understand how bearing witness to suffering can mess with our long-held beliefs about God’s sovereignty. Is there really an almighty being up there and, if so, is he really standing passively by as children starve, pe