Can the various, awful terrorist events over the past years be theologically explained by 'layers?'
- People decide to do wicked things due to the fallenness of humanity. The implications are a random cycle of pain and heartache with no real explanation
- God is sovereign and will 'work all things together for the good of those who love him and have been called according to his purpose.'
- Everything that happens is according to God's great plan, which is to bring glory to himself and to display his good nature in all of creation
All of these are 'true' at different levels of understanding and different layers of revelation. We do not need to pick which one we believe and discard the others because they seem to disagree. We can trust God in the seeming contradiction of these truths, knowing that one day 'we shall know fully even as we are fully known.' (1Cor 13:12) If this verse is true then we move from knowing in part to knowing fully as we see God face to face. An understanding of God's purpose in the world comes from a deepening revelation of God himself
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