Article January 11, 1958 ISSUE

TOO PURE TO BEHOLD EVIL

LUTHER J. KINNARD

Throughout Biblical history consecrated prophets have arisen to declare, despite all evidence of the material senses, that the one and only living God is a God of good and not of evil. Such a prophet was Habakkuk, who, in the midst of oppression and religious depression, could lift his vision above the onslaught of the dreaded Chaldeans and gratefully pray to his God (1:13), "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity."

In like manner, many devout Christians of today no longer accept the discouraging belief that a good God sends grief and sorrow to punish His children. This gradual change in Christian thought from the fear of a deity who creates both good and evil to the worship of a loving Father-Mother God leads to the question, How can a merciful God comfort the sorrowing, heal the sick, and forgive the sinner without even being conscious of these errors?

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