Problem of Evil: Another World is Possible?

Is another world possible?  Not until Christ metes out perfect justice.  Don't get me wrong, I think Shane Clairborne is an admirable guy.  I agree that we should focus on living our own lives as Christ-like as possible.  I also agree that our hope is not in this world.  That just doesn't lead me to 'anarchism'—whatever that even means.  (An 'anarchist' world would make ours look like sunshine and lollipops, but more more on that later). 

Let's put 'Christian anarchists' aside for now since I think we more wish to argue with regular old God-hating anarchists/punks/activists/leftists.  The message we need to deliver to these people is this:  capitalism, democracy, or whatever is not the right enemy.  Sin is. 

People concerned primarily with social justice often completely lack personal justice.  Activists I know are not only the most sexually immoral people I have ever met, they are also the most, disloyal, lying, stealing and cheating.  They have elevated their feeling of oughtness about social justice to the point where it had drowned out their feeling of outness (otherwise known as a conscience) in their personal lives.  You cannot escape Genesis Three. 

Problem of Evil: Genesis Three

This is one of the most common apologetics for atheism/agnosticism. How can a loving personal God preside over a world with so much cruelty and sadness—not just at the hands of evil men, but also from natural causes?  I introduced this topic below with a personal anecdote b/c I believe this is when it becomes most trying to faith. 

The cold unfeeling hand of cruelty and death seems to be more at home in a random, purposeless universe.  However, it more clearly leads to God.  This is because we live in a Genesis Three world.  The earth is cursed by our rebellion (Romans 8). 

Each of us feels an ought-ness about this world that remains woefully unfulfilled.  The activist is simply a loud reaction to this universal impulse.  They feel, falsely, that there are material conditions that are keeping the world from being the way that it should be.  So they march, write books, and create political parties, societies, kibbutzim, communes, and utopias.  They all fail.  There is no one you can elect, there is no system you can put in place, no material need you can satisfy that will rid the world of evil–natural or anthropogenic.