won't you believe?

this song is a big hits of the 90's. it's no surprising that the lyrics depict so vividly and cry out loudly from the roft top a skeptic's respond to the problem of evil, suffering and faith.

Something to Believe in
Poison

Will I see him on the tv
Preachin’ ’bout the promised land
He tells me to believe in jesus
And steals the money from my hand

Some say he was a good man
But lord I think he sinned, yeah
Twenty-two years of mental tears
Cries a suicidal vietnam vet
Who fought a losing war on a foreign shore
To find his country didn’t want him back

Their bullets took his best friend in saigon
Our lawyers took his wife and kids, no regrets
In a time I don’t remember
In a war he can’t forget

He cried forgive me for what I’ve done there
Cause I never meant the things I did

Chorus:
And give me something to believe in
If there’s a lord above
And give me something to believe in
Oh, lord arise

My best friend died a lonely man
In some palm springs hotel room
I got the call last christmas eve
And they told me the news

I tried all night not to break down and cry
As the tears rolled down my face
I felt so cold and empty
Like a lost soul out of place

And the mirror, mirror on the wall
Sees my smile it fades again

Chorus
Sometimes I wish to God I didn’t know now
The things I didn’t know then
Road you gotta take me home

Solo
I drive by the homeless sleeping on a cold dark street
Like bodies in an open grave
Underneath the broken old neon sign
That used to read jesus saves

A mile away live the rich folks
And I see how they’re living it up
While the poor they eat from hand to mouth
The rich is drinkin’ from a golden cup

And it just makes me wonder
Why so many lose, so few win

Chorus
You take the high road
And I’ll take the low road

Sometimes I wish to God I didn’t know now
The things I didn’t know then

And give me something to believe in

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And people leave out from the equation that God is the hurted party, not (only) us. We are suffering the consequences of our rebellion of Him. God is the party whose rights of justice has been wrongly violated. He let the evil to triumph, but in Christ, God, the sovereign one who is in control of even the most wicked evil act of injustice on the Cross, was reconciling the sinners to Him again.

Isaiah 53:3-7

3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on Him
the iniquity of us all

7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.

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That we might have hope. Hope that doesn't dissappoint us, because God's bringing in a new order of creation, where evil is no-more. God is merciful, giving the time for people to repent, therefore we don't treat His patience as an opportunity to pay back evil with evil or despair, but we wait.

Romans 8:19-25

The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
20For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by
the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21that[i]
the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into
the glorious freedom of the children of God.

22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is
seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25But if we hope for
what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.