Why did it have to be this way?
By David Robson
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Why did God create the world in such an imperfect way with so many things going wrong? Surely He could have made it a much better place?
I believe the answer is that God had no other option, and I would like to suggest that given just two pieces of information, much of life as we know it simply has to be this way. This includes the creation of heaven and earth, the existence of angels and humans, death, the problem of evil and suffering generally, the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Law, salvation through faith, the resurrection of humans, the destruction of the existing heaven and earth, the Judgment, and the new heaven and earth. All these things have to come to pass and perhaps more things as well.
What are the two things we need to know? Firstly, God is who He is—one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, holy and righteous, loving and merciful; and secondly, God decided to create individuals with their own will to live with Him forever.
The aim of this e-book is to show these two things alone constrain God into creating the world the way we find it.
David Robson
David Robson is an award-winning science writer based in the United Kingdom. A graduate of Cambridge University, he previously worked as an editor at New Scientist and a senior journalist at the BBC. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Atlantic, Men's Health, the Psychologist, the Washington Post, and many other publications. His first book, The Intelligence Trap, was published in 2019 and has been translated into fifteen languages.
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