A short interview with Billy Graham from Newsweek. This is the second religion-prone article I've wandered across from there in the past few months. I wonder if Newsweek secretly has a dedicated religion editor.
As expected, Graham has basic things to say. He's too public a figure not to have soundbites. However, here's an excerpt I particularly like:
What do you tell people who ask how a loving God could let something like this happen?
Well, I spoke yesterday to the clergy and I asked myself why, and I told them don’t know why. There is no way I can know. I think of Job, who suffered the loss of everything.... He couldn’t help but ask why, but he didn’t find the answer immediately, and he really never had the answer at the end. God came back and restored to him all these things, but the cause of the thing in his life was not God, it was the Devil. I didn’t mention that yesterday, because I don’t think this is the place to talk about Satan and the Devil, because I don’t know. The Devil might have had nothing to do with this; I don’t know. But God has allowed it, and there is a purpose that we won’t know maybe for years to come.
Admit you don't know. Admit that God and Satan are in play, but you don't know how or why. Assume that God is sovereign and look ahead. It probably took Graham a long time to figure out how to be this humble.
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