An atheist asked where God was, when a man was recently caged and set on fire by Muslim terrorists.

To answer this, we will have to set aside his atheistic worldview. He doesn't believe that this was evil, because we are all just random animals that came about by accident, and there’s therefore no ultimate right or wrong. This was merely typical of what happens thousands of times each day in the animal kingdom--the stronger of the species survives.

Let’s instead adopt the Christian worldview and believe that this was indeed evil. The atheist’s point then, is that if God is good and this was evil, He should have intervened with perhaps a bolt of lightning and killed the murderers before the murder took place.

While we are telling God what He should do, we should remind Him that over 400,000 people are murdered across the world each year. Many of those are by burning, drowning, suffocation, bombing, stabbing, shooting, strangling, poisoning, decapitation, and hammers to the head.

Then there are the “honor” killings of Islam, the Hindu wives who are burned alive with their dead husbands, vicious rapists, drunk drivers who slaughter the innocent, drug pushers, child molesters, and those who kill millions of babies through abortion each year. So it looks like if we get God to do something about evil, there’s going to be a lot of killing.

Actually, that’s His ultimate plan. He has set aside a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness. That will be a day of swift eternal justice that is going to be so thorough, the Bible warns it will also include all liars, thieves, adulterers, fornicators, homosexuals, and even every idle word we have spoken.

So be patient. Ultimate justice is coming. That’s why we need a Savior.