This time, I agree with Digong's stated phrase. But I'm just not sure if he meant it or understood it in a similar context as most Christians understood it. But it does not follow that just because there is poverty that God does not exist -- it would be like a man, who is born with incurable blindness, preferring to believe that the sun does not exist merely because all he perceives all his life is darkness and he is not able to see and appreciate the soothing sunrise in every morning and neither is he able to witness and marvel at the beauty of sunset at the end of every day.
In some sense, Digong is right when he said that "IF there is God, there is no poverty." Perhaps unknown to him, but at least the way he phrased his statement implies that without God, there is poverty. The absence of God in a man's life could also mean man's rejection of God. Rejection of God means not wanting His ways of how we ought to live our lives in abundance. Only God knows all of the complexities of His creation, but man instead chose to do it on his own.
In some sense, Digong is right when he said that "IF there is God, there is no poverty." Perhaps unknown to him, but at least the way he phrased his statement implies that without God, there is poverty. The absence of God in a man's life could also mean man's rejection of God. Rejection of God means not wanting His ways of how we ought to live our lives in abundance. Only God knows all of the complexities of His creation, but man instead chose to do it on his own.
Did you know that there were two trees in the garden of Eden then? But mankind chose to ate the fruit of the forbidden tree (which represented all of the mortal worldly knowledge of good and evil) because they chose to entertain and believe THE LIE rather than believe God's word and obey his instructions and follow his ways. While in Eden with God, before mankind's fall, they live in all of God's abundance. However, when mankind was cast out of Eden and was living on their own in the ways of their acquired worldly knowledge of good and evil (as the result of eating the fruit of the forbidden tree), they are living their lives in lack and in a roller coaster of countless tribulations. And as descendants of our first parents, we too are experiencing it until now.
Just for the sake of intriguing our thoughts spiritually, briefly let me just pose this question: What if mankind then chose to desire the other tree in the garden of Eden, the Tree of Life? (Hope the concept awakens your spiritual interest. If you seek God's word thoroughly, then you will discover the answer to this deeply mysterious concept.)
Indeed, in God there is no poverty. It is only because of mankind's free choice of not following God's way of abundance that sin and poverty proliferated and prevailed in this world. Only by giving man free will that man, by his own volition and without coercion, can truly learn to embrace the truth, follow the way, and live life eternally in all of God's goodness.
