My journey of faith took a turn when I began to ponder the weather. I thought about people in certain parts of the world where there was famine--not enough rain to grow food. Then I saw on the weather map that downpours had flooded other parts of the world.
I wondered...If God is truly up there and watching everything, and if he is really concerned about people, especially those who are starving because of lack of rain, why doesn't he shift some of the moisture over to their part of the world where they need it? The whole notion of God's Providence (that he provides for our needs) is a central doctrine of Christian Theism. But it began to look less and less credible to me. Obviously the weather patterns were not directly distributed by God in a merciful way. Something didn't add up.
The weather man (or woman) could show me what was actually happening. The preacher could only theorize about the providential God behind everything. In my mind, the weather person won out.
My faith journey took a turn. I could no longer believe in the traditional doctrine of God's Providence. I had to begin to think about God is a different way.
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