4 big questions from young people

A few years ago Ruth Lukabyo published an article about the questions young people have.

The four biggest questions were:

1. How can I know that God exists?
2. How could a good God send people to hell?
3. How can I believe in a good God when there is so much suffering?
4. Doesn’t evolution prove that God doesn’t exist?

Let's give the answers a whirl. But first, is it not amazing that the church has so poorly told its story, its message, so poorly that young people remain unknowledgeable about these questions?

A comprehensive understanding of the 'story of reality' would answer them all.

Briefly

1 - that anything that started to exist requires a cause sufficient to its nature. Reality is fundamentally amenable to mind. We have minds. Therefore mind necessarily stands behind it all.

2 - people who reject God vote to go to hell themselves. They don't seek a relationship with God, their heavenly creator,  and despite their own insight into their failings, they maintain rejection of him.

3 - God made a very good creation. When Man turned from God, it pushed God back from fellowship and sought its own way. The creation could not be partly alienated from God and partly not, so it is corrupted in its entirety. People make foolish, selfish and uninformed decisions of convenience. Thus suffering: living in a state of creator-rejection.

4 - No. Evolution is an attempt to explain life by purely random chemical interactions, but it does not. Not on its own premises and not in terms of our creator who created in terms of our world's nature, categories and experiential configuration.  That is, he created as he said (Exodus 31: 12-17). He didn't use means incongruent with how he created us in a world fit for our fellowship with him.