Editorial January 2, 1995 Issue

"Why would God let these things happen?"

Russ Gerber

A letter writer told us recently she had shared copies of the Christian Science Sentinel with some friends. They liked what they read—the firsthand accounts of Christian healing today, and articles that helped them identify detrimental trends of thought while also showing how Christian Science addresses those trends in a healing way. Still, some of those new Sentinel readers raised an important question. With people throughout the world suffering and dying because of violence, natural disasters, disease, and so forth, they wanted to know, "Why would God let things happen?"

An awful lot of questions follow a tragedy. What went wrong? How could this have been prevented? Who's to blame? Why me? Why them? And there's the question the readers raised, "Why would God let these things happen?"

A logical question. If God is "our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble," as we read in the Bible (Ps. 46:1), then where is His help?

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