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If Jesus Christ came to save mankind, why is the world in such sad shape?
by Bill Bradford
esus Christ Himself said He "did not come to judge the world but to save the world" (John 12:47). But in a world in which hundreds of people die every day from wars, civil unrest and murder-in which thousands die daily from starvation, disease and natural disasters; accidental deaths claim hundreds more; injustice, immorality and every godless act abounds; professing Christians go to war against and kill other Christians; thousands die daily without having heard the name of Jesus Christ or even seen a Bible, much less read one-can we truly say that Christ's mission was successful?
Was Jesus Christ mistaken? Has He not succeeded at what He said He would do? Doesn't the very condition of the world itself show that God has failed in the very purpose for which Jesus said He was sent into this world? After all, we are told that "God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved" (John 3:17).
If Jesus intended to save the world, then has the world truly been saved? Is it logical to conclude, when we observe man's inhumanity to man on an unprecedented scale, that the world is saved?
Enigmatic questions
These questions have always posed an enigma to thoughtful people willing to face the facts. If the Christian Church had as its mission to take the message of Christ in power to the world so the world could be saved, why is the world in such religious disarray? Further, if the gospel Jesus Christ brought holds the answers to man's problems, why is the world in such sad moral shape?
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