"Jesus emphatically rejected the notion that God causes evil things to happen to people either as punishment for sin or as a test of faith. (Matt. 12:22-26, Luke 11:14-23). The Christian belief is that God is love (1 John 4:8) and that divine actions are good (Matt. 19:17). To argue that God either causes or permits rape or incest and consequent pregnancy, or that God causes every hideous anomaly, is to say blasphemous and heretical things about God. Central to the teaching of Jesus was the idea that God is love and goodness. Jesus emphatically denounced and refuted the traditional theology that God caused evil things to happen. He drew a very simple test for deciding: “If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your Children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask?” (Matt 7:11).To some people, it is more acceptable to portray God as cruel than to suggest that God may not be in total control. However, to blame evil on God is to risk confusing the work of Beelzebub with that of the Holy Spirit (Matt. 12:22-36, Luke 11:14-23). Jesus made it plain that an accounting would be made of those who attribute evil to God."
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Paul D. Simmons, “Personhood, the Bible, and the Abortion Debate”, p.7
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