God is Utterly Evil

It’s funny the posts that show up randomly on my Facebook page, so before you think I’ve lost my religion, allow me to explain. This recent TV interview with British actor Stephen Fry, found its way to me. Take time to look at it for yourself, but today I want you to think what your reply to him would be.  This is not the first time that I’ve heard God called evil.  He’s always blamed for everything from giving children cancer, to causing natural disasters and in general is viewed, by those who don’t “know” him as, well, evil!

 If you don’t, as Paul Harvey used to say, know the rest of the story, you might start believing that lie as well.  Fry, besides being a very intelligent man, is an avowed atheist.  If you ever have to defend your faith to anyone, this is not a combination you want to face without spiritual bullets in your guns.  So, how will you counter his claims that God is an evil maniac?  If he had disparaged your child, friend or parents, you wouldn’t have a problem defending them.  But is your trust and knowledge in God that solid?  Atheists don’t want to hear about Biblical character references, because they don’t believe in it anyway.

Are you scratching your head?  You should be!  Why not start by asking them to describe what a world without God would be like.  Would people be loving and kind to one another?  Would there be disease, pestilence and such?  John Lennon, in “Imagine”, thought it would be a great place.  “Imagine there's no heaven…And no religion too. Imagine all the people Living life in peace…”  Sadly, he was murdered by one of those peace lovers.  The fact is, we had heaven on earth back in the Garden of Eden.  God warned us of the consequences of disobedience, and we all know how that ended.  But, whether you believe in God or not, it seems obvious that man has only himself to blame for the condition of the world. We all love to point the finger of guilt, and God is the most likely culprit.

So, the way I see it, atheists say they don’t believe in God, but want to blame him for everything anyway! How conveniently they leave out the most important fact, He came to live and suffer along with us! Isaiah 5:20-21 puts it this way when describing people like Fry: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.” How clever indeed, after all, someone has to be responsible for this mess.  Maybe I can’t change Stephen Fry’s earth-bound mind, but one day it will be changed.  For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. For it is written, "AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL GIVE PRAISE TO GOD." So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God. Romans 14:10-12.  Maybe this week you’ll run into a Stephen Fry…be prepared to build your faith, and, hopefully, his!


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/stephen-fry-explains-what-he-would-say-if-he-was-confronted-by-god-10015360.html