How God’s providence compares to so many evils…

How God’s providence compares to so many evils with which he is
do we meet in the world?
The saints experience “that to those who love God everything
helps good “{Romans 8:28.) But not everyone has such faith.” If God existed, certain things they could never happen! “, often the unbelievers object. One of them proved his atheism as follows: “They exist wars and horrific crimes. And what does God do? Either he doesn’t want to stop them, and then he’s not good, or he’s not good with them to prevent it, but then it is not omnipotent! “But the existence of evil is also a temptation not to believe in God the Father.
Objections of this kind are ancient. That is why the Church Fathers wrote treatises entitled God is not the cause God’s providence various kinds of evil (cf. St. Basil’s work). Because God he is infinitely good, he can only act in the world good. And yet there are earthquakes, floods, natural disasters and also crimes committed by the wicked people. So where does evil come from? From the sin of the first people and from the sins of all mankind. Saint John Chrysostom he says that God allows them, He does not prevent them. But why? The answer does not seem easy, and therefore The Golden Mouth responds resolutely against those who offend God’s strange indifference and recalls that
divine providence radically transcends divine intelligence. We must firmly believe that evil must also serve good. God acts as a healing physician sick even that the sick must suffer when on they perform their treatments. These words were broadly explained by St. John Chrysostom, who was persecuted and died in exile. Among the recently living saints, let us mention, for example St. Frederik Ozanama, who writes: “If only you wanted to strap on the bed these days to me they are still alive, it would be too short a time to thank you for the days I spent. And my last words would be an anthem of praise for your goodness. ” It is an answer that springs from faith, but it is universal. Can it apply to all evils? After all, they are so diverse.

Physical evils and moral evils
Socrates already distinguished between “physical” evils and “moral”
bad. Pain in diseases, disasters on the road, natural disasters are physical evils. On the contrary, sins and guilty crimes are moral evils. Physical evils, they say Fathers, there are no real evils. They’re like a broom in the hands of a wise father who knows he must punish a mischievous child to bring them up for good. Plug for example, people learn to pray and turn to God only when they fall into poverty or danger. This is evidenced by the ancient proverb of sailors: “Who he cannot pray, let him go to the sea some dangerous storm! And what about moral evil, sin? “How you can live in this world full of evil, “they sigh sometimes people. It’s not easy to believe, but we have to convince them that even evil not caused by God will escape God’s power. Pilate and the Jewish high priests committed greatly serious sins by condemning Jesus to death, and yet the end result of this judgment was the cross, which saved the whole world. According to legend, Saint Prokop, Czech patron, forced the devil to pull the plow by which the saint he cultivated the land of his monastery. What an evil spirit wanted to destroy, he had to build. The legend symbolically expresses what has been verified so many times in the history of the Church and also in the personal experience of believers. God’s providence gospel parable of the prodigal son He shows us how a person discovers the true face of a merciful God only when he decides to return to his father’s house and repents for his delusions. There are cases where the bold expression o felix culpa applies.