2. God Revealed Through Providence.
Many evidences
may be found in nature of God’s providence or care and provision for His
creation. He makes the sun to shine and the rain to fall upon the just and the
unjust alike. He cares for even the sparrow and not one falls to the ground
without His permission. But on the other hand the unbeliever can cite facts
from nature for just the opposite effect. He sees the cruelty in nature,
millions suffering and dying of disease, hunger, and war, innocent people
trampled under foot, justice miscarried. Where, he asks, is there any evidence
of God’s providence in these things? There is evidence, if one understands man’s
rebellion against God is responsible for all of the evil in the world. God
could have justly left man to his own devices and have withdrawn all of His
providential care. Whatever of that providence which may still be seen is
simply the manifestation of God’s kindness and mercy to a fallen race, which,
in spite of God’s provision of eternal salvation as His free gift, has not only
in the main rejected His proffered mercy, but complains against God for the
plight he has brought upon himself.
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