Hey Andy, Christians often talk of God being unable to do certain things, like preventing the holocaust, since it would violate man’s free will. Where in the Bible are they getting this argument from?
There’s nothing God can’t do (unless you’re talking about those stupid questions, like creating a rock that He can’t lift or something).
God could have prevented the Holocaust, but for some reason, He didn’t. Oddly enough, it’s easy to look at what God did with the Israelites (Jews, today) by sending them into exile and having many killed for their sins by sending Babylon to conquer them, and wonder if He did that again with the Holocaust, but in the middle to latter parts of Isaiah, God tells them He’ll never do that again, so the Holocaust wasn’t due to their sins or rejection of their Messiah (as many I’ve talked with have suggested).
All I can figure is what God said in Isaiah 55:8–11 = “’For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from Heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is My Word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it’.”
So in the same way that a bee can’t understand why we’re opening windows and trying to shoo it by (so it’ll go out the window), neither can we understand why God does what He does – it’s just completely way above our comprehension.
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