I need some help please. How do I comfort someone who’s two year old daughter has been raped by her father, she wants to know how can God let this happen? Please answer this so I can help her. Thanks, Howard Huckabee
There may be no words that will adequately comfort the mother and child who endured such a tragedy. Yet, in humanity’s quest to blame someone and often God for whatever calamities befall us on earth, we fail to consider some important facts. First, God is not evil and can have no association with evil (James 1:13); our God is holy (1 Peter 1:15-16). Second, God created humanity sinlessly pure, but sin entered the world through Adam and Eve (Genesis 3; Romans 5:12) and every accountable soul sins (Romans 3:23). However, babies and other unaccountable souls are free from sin (Ezekiel 28:15; 18:20). Third, because of the abuse of freewill that God has given to humanity, people often make the wrong choices whereby the innocent are injured or even killed. However, the same freewill enables mankind to choose to be the children of God and obey the Gospel (Mark 16:16). Finally, when whatever tragedy befalls humanity, even when the innocent are hurt or killed, God is right where he was when ungodly humanity took the Son of God and nailed him to a cross.
