So what can the rest of us make of this terrible event—this hard-to-comprehend tragedy? Fortunately, Christians have a great resource to help…
So what can the rest of us make of this terrible event—this hard-to-comprehend tragedy? Fortunately, Christians have a great resource to help them through such times: the Bible. In First Thessalonians 4:13-4, the Apostle Paul addresses the problem of grief; he offers comfort to the assembled believers, reminding them that the faithful who sleep in death will awake in life, basking forever in the glowing presence of God:
To some, these words will be no comfort. To others, they will mean great comfort—that’s the gift of faith.
Or, one should say, that’s the gift of the Christian faith, and of all other faiths that offer the promise of a transcendent destiny for each human soul.
There are, of course, other kinds of faith. For instance, there are the Greens, and what they believe. All over the world—albeit mostly in the Western Europe and North America—the Greens proclaim their credo: The end is near.
