Would you consider 'evil' calamities as from God's perspective or our's?
Brother......There is a problem of evil, but only from our experience, not from God’s perspective. Everything is happening just as He planned.
What we perceive is our problem because of our finite minds.
From the perspective of this thread, we can all see the logical problem. We have this impasse: a God who claims to be powerful, good, and wise. And yet, inside his creation, there exists rampant evil.
Now, I can not speak for LTLG, and maybe I am on the wrong path, but from his posts on this thread and others, he seems to be deeply involved in philosophically inspired questions. Do not misunderstand me now.......there is nothing wrong whatsoever with asking the deeper things of our heart and mind.
In fact, the Greek philosopher Epicurus originated a deep philosophic lots of people ask when he asked........
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
I do not know of LTLG is coming from that point of view but it seems that we are in the middle of that question!!!!
Another way of saying that is............"“Why, God?”
Right about here is where good teachers will say that just because you can’t see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen, doesn’t mean there can’t be one. God has a reason and a plan, and we have to trust Him.
The truth is that there are lots of things we just can not process. Allow me to give you an easy one. I can not for the life of me process how a ship made of steel weighing 100 tons can float on water. But it is all about the air and distrubtion and so on. I weigh 225 pounds and I am full of air but I can not float on water.