A Universe With God

encounter terrible darkness, huge rocks and immense balls of fire — all in constant, frenzied movement. After passing through such a frightful scenario he would reach planet earth, where he would find an astonishing exception. Here, quite uniquely, there is water, vegetation; living things like fish, birds and animals, and human beings who are capable of thought. Even more astonishingly, there exists on Earth that factor which favours all these life forms — the ‘Life Support System’. Here exists a complete civilization which does not exist anywhere else in the vast universe. In other words — in a totally meaningless universe, here exists a highly meaningful world. The meaningful exception of the Earth’s life support is undoubtedly the result of purposeful creation. This set of circumstances tells us that planet Earth is a unique exception in the vast universe. This exception is no simple matter. This observation is proof of a great reality: the existence of God Almighty. This exception proves intervention; and intervention proves without doubt that an intervener exists, and when the existence of an intervener is proved, God’s existence is thereby also proved. The Problem of Suffering Due to Evil One of the problems regularly cited to cast doubt upon the existence of God is the problem of evil. This objection to belief in God is the result of the erroneous view: that evil in human life is God-made, whereas this is not true. The actual reason for this misunderstanding is that when people observe human suffering due to evil, they seek an explanation. When, in many cases, this explanation is not immediately observable they allege that either there is no God controlling this world or, that if there is a God, He is unjust. But this attribution is quite wrong. This suffering which is found in human life is caused by people themselves, by others and often by the social system of which they are a part. Sometimes suffering has an immediate cause, and sometimes, the cause of the suffering can be traced back over several generations. Making a Wrong Reference The reason for these misapprehensions is that people study situations from the wrong angle. That is, they look at a phenomenon as if it