The Federalist By: John Daniel Davidson
The flooding in Texas that has killed at least 100 people, including dozens of little girls at a Christian camp on the Guadalupe River, is the kind of catastrophe that causes people to question the existence of God. How could a loving God allow this to happen? How can a system of Christian belief in a God of justice and mercy be reconciled with such suffering and devastation and death?
These questions aren’t new, of course. They regularly and understandably resurface at times of immense tragedy and suffering as a natural human reaction to the problem of evil and the pain of death. At such times, Christians in particular are called upon to explain how the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient God is consistent with a world beset by death and suffering.
The answers Christians often give in these circumstances are not always helpful, and are sometimes morally repugnant. During an interview on Monday, for example, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was asked why “God doesn’t make sense” in the face of this tragedy. Instead of denying the premise of the question and affirming the orthodox Christian view that suffering and death have been conquered by Christ, Cruz gave an unfortunate answer that nevertheless reflects how many Christians deal with the problem of evil: “We have a good and benevolent God, but God allows things to happen sometimes that defy human explanation, and that’s where we need love and where we need grace…
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