I listened to Stephen
Fry’s opinion this week, on whether God exists and what he would say to
God if He had to meet him. Instead of feeling angry about his comments… I felt
sad.
In an interview for RTÉ One’s “The Meaning of Life” with Gay Byrne, when he explained what he would say if he was "confronted by God" Stephen Fry shocked audiences…
In an interview for RTÉ One’s “The Meaning of Life” with Gay Byrne, when he explained what he would say if he was "confronted by God" Stephen Fry shocked audiences…
Gay Bryne said: "Suppose it’s
all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are confronted by God,”
asked Bryne. “What will Stephen Fry say to him, her, or it?"
Stephan Fry replied: “I’d say, bone cancer in children? What’s that about?
“How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery that is not our fault. It’s not right; it’s utterly, utterly evil.
“Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain. That’s what I would say.”
Byrne asked a second question: “And you think you are going to get in, like that?”
“But I wouldn’t want to,” Fry insisted. “I wouldn’t want to get in on his terms. They are wrong.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo
Stephan Fry replied: “I’d say, bone cancer in children? What’s that about?
“How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery that is not our fault. It’s not right; it’s utterly, utterly evil.
“Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain. That’s what I would say.”
Byrne asked a second question: “And you think you are going to get in, like that?”
“But I wouldn’t want to,” Fry insisted. “I wouldn’t want to get in on his terms. They are wrong.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo
Stephan’s description of God as the evil overlord of this planet is hair-raising to anyone who truly knows God. This platform can in no way be adequate to challenge or even to attempt to correct what he said, but I wondered what single thing I would say to him, or try to correct in his thinking, if I had the opportunity… I tried to think of single correction that might steer someone of his intellect in the right direction.
I think I would choose to talk to him about “freewill”. It might seem strange that I would choose “freewill” instead of “love”, (Christians believe that God is Love) but you see, “love” cannot exist without “freewill”.
No man and no god, of any kind, that has reason and claims to operate within reason, can force anybody, to truly love them.
Coerced love results in slavery and at best loyalty, but that is still not love. The only reason Adam and Eve had the choice to know evil is because without the power of choice, they would not love God by choice, but rather by default. The absence of God is evil, just as the absence of light is dark. It is because God created us to be in a love relationship with Him, that freewill was given to us.
Freewill to choose Him, freewill to be His sons and daughters, not His slaves!
Anyone who has ever loved (on this earth) will know that love has great cost. Built into love’s core lies not only volumes of joy, but also truckloads of pain.
Even Lucifer (now Satan), (who was created to be a perfect being, just as humans were), used his freewill (intended by God for love), to choose against God’s will.
It is not God who makes children blind or sick; it is the god of this world, the devil, Satan, the thief, or whatever other one of his names you might be familiar with…
John 10:10 (AMP)
The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I (Jesus) came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
Ephesians 6:12 (AMP)
For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.
You see it is easy for non-believers to talk about “God” because His creation will always speak to our reason, but they have a hard time giving credit to Satan, who sadly has dominion over this earth. Dominion that man legally had and legally gave to him.
How then does a Father who loves us, shelter us from a world ruled by evil? He creates a kingdom (on earth) which we become part of supernaturally (only by freewill choice to love Jesus). He buys back our sin - that is punishable only by death, by sacrificing His Son (Jesus) in our stead. He provides peace in our minds, spirits and in our hearts, even onto death. He creates in us a spirit that will endure more than what the human spirit ever could without Him. He empowers us to move mountains with our love for one another and heals our broken flesh with faith in Him. He moves the war around and against us, within an arm’s length and teaches us to feast amidst the most unbearable attacks…
Psalm 23 (The Message)
A David Psalm
1-3 God, my shepherd!
I don’t need a thing.
You have bedded me down in lush meadows,
you find me quiet pools to drink from.
True to your word,
you let me catch my breath
and send me in the right direction.
4 Even when the way goes through
Death Valley,
I’m not afraid
when you walk at my side.
Your trusty shepherd’s crook
makes me feel secure.
5 You serve me a six-course dinner
right in front of my enemies.
You revive my drooping head;
my cup brims with blessing.
6 Your beauty and love chase after me
every day of my life.
I’m back home in the house of God
for the rest of my life.
I have heard His audible voice. He has saved my life many times over. I have seen him heal babies and old people alike. I have even looked into the face of a blind person who started seeing again. My God is very, very real and He is the best freewill choice I have ever made and I am truly loved everyday of my life.
