Is God incapable of doing anything?

God is all powerful, omnipotent, omnipresent, and creator of all things.
Is there anything He cannot do? Most Christians would answer with a resounding, NO! There is nothing impossible for God. I beg to differ.
God cannot lie and God is incapable of sin.



What led me to this line of thinking is that I was having a conversation the other day with a friend about my brother’s five year old son and his battle with brain cancer. It was a very sad time. This happy little five year old with beautiful deep blue eyes and golden blonde curly hair experienced pain that was so intense that he screamed constantly. No amount of pain killer medication was enough to quell the pain from the cancer which after his brain surgery spread from his brain to his spine, where it seeded up and down the spine causing pain to virtually every joint in his body. Children can withstand more pain than an adult and he lived for three months in this condition. The doctor said an adult would have succumbed far earlier. He hardly weighed thirty pounds at his death in my brother’s arms. I was there when he looked into my brothers weeping eyes for the last time. He said, “Daddy I want to go home” and closed his eyes for the last time and died.



Watching this beautiful child suffer and go down in this manner was very hard to do and was a supreme test of one’s faith in God. The question of why God allows something like that to occur, especially to a child, is hard to understand if not entirely impossible. The answer is that we do not know. We do know that God does not like it anymore than we do. Jesus wept when He received word that Lazarus died even though He knew that He would be resurrecting him in a few days. There is no doubt that God knows how it feels to watch a child suffer as Jesus suffered as no other person has ever suffered or ever will and I’m sure that God wept as His perfect Son died a horrible agonizing death. The question is why does God allow, it if He is all-powerful.



Perhaps the answer lies in the Garden of Eden when satan enticed Eve to sin and Adam joined her. We know that satan and 1/3 of all of the angels who joined satan in rebellion against God fell from heaven and were banished forever. We know that mankind was sentenced to death because of sin. Could it be that promises were made to satan about his dominion of earth that cannot be broken? I want to make it clear that this is just Bob talking here and this will not be found in the Bible, but maybe God who cannot lie told satan that he would have dominion over earth and everything within it. If so, He would be powerless to prevent satan from bringing sin and misery to all of us unless He broke His word and came to the rescue and then He would be no different than satan. Instead He allowed Jesus to take our punishment on the cross and thereby open a bridge for reunification, but until His return and/or our death, we are stuck with satan spewing his demonic misery and suffering over the world and everything in it.



I do not know if any of this conjecture may be the answer to “why” God allows bad things to happen to good people. One thing is certain, the Bible tells us that they do happen and it will continue in this manner until God comes back. My friend told me that it would be hard not to get mad at God over what happened to my brother’s child. My brother did get mad at Him and was bitter towards God because of it all of the rest of his life right up until he committed suicide. I was able to maintain my faith, but then again it was not one of my kids. I would hope that if it had been that I would still maintain my strong faith. In the end we do not know the answers to all questions. The Bible assures us that God is good all of the time and I assume that it had to happen as it did. I know that this beautiful little boy is with Jesus Christ at this very moment and those three months of agony I’m sure are in the distant past, if remembered by him at all. Perhaps God just wanted him at his side a little early; after all can you imagine what heaven would be like with no children present? I for one cannot…



Phil. 1:21

For me to live is Christ, and

to die is gain.