In
days of human trials and conflicts, of violent floods, storms, and other earthly upheavals, men sometimes feel in their ignorance that God has deserted them.
It
must have been a startling sight for the people of Jerusalem to see a man who had been lame from birth and who lay at the gate of the temple, begging, rise and walk perfectly at the behest of Peter.
There
is nothing fatalistic in the teachings of Christ Jesus, but there is recognition of the precision with which Truth unfolds itself to mankind through the action of divine law.
Starting
from the premise that God, good, is the perfect creator of a perfect universe, including man, one might naturally inquire, "How came so much wickedness to this planet?
