{"id":7317,"date":"2016-09-12T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=7317"},"modified":"2016-09-08T15:05:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:05:58","slug":"wikitheology-why-is-there-still-hunger-if-jesus-could-solve-that-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=7317","title":{"rendered":"WikiTheology: Why is there still hunger if Jesus could solve that issue?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is\u00a0an explanation of\u00a0WikiTheology<\/a>. For similar posts, see\u00a0why we have arms<\/a>,\u00a0why we don’t eat snowy owls<\/a>, and\u00a0why Hell might not be\u00a0what you think<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 todav\u00eda hay hambre si Jes\u00fas hubiera podido acabar con el hambre?<\/b><\/p>\n

Amigo: Si el Nuevo Testamento es verdad, y Jes\u00fas pudiera alimentar a miles de personas, y hacer desaparecer al hambre, \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 no lo hizo?<\/p>\n

Yo: \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 no dio provisiones interminables a la gente?<\/p>\n

Amigo: Y a nosotros. Si Jes\u00fas pudiera solucionar el problema, \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 no lo hizo?<\/p>\n

Yo: Es una buena pregunta. Sabemos que algo no es correcto en este mundo cuando hay tanta hambre. La vida no es para ser solo una lucha para sobrevivir. Si fuera as\u00ed, no nos hubi\u00e9ramos hecho esta pregunta!<\/p>\n

Desde la perspectiva de la Biblia, tenemos que empezar desde el principio. En G\u00e9nesis vemos que el hambre no es malo, Dios cre\u00f3 nuestros cuerpos para procesar comida y el hambre es la que nos indica que debemos comer. Entonces, no hay nada malo con el hambre. Pero s\u00ed hay algo malo con morirse de hambre. Si rechazamos la hip\u00f3tesis de la evoluci\u00f3n, morirse de hambre no empez\u00f3 hasta que los hombres se rebelaron contra Dios. El pecado, el morirse de hambre, y la muerte vinieron como consecuencias de rechazar a Dios como rey (G\u00e9nesis 3).<\/p>\n

Cuando leemos los evangelios, los libros dedicados a la vida de Jes\u00fas, vemos que \u00e9l pas\u00f3 hambre porque era completamente hombre. Comi\u00f3 lo mismo que los dem\u00e1s. Le encantaba comer y conversar alrededor de la mesa. No hay nada intr\u00ednsecamente malo con el hambre, el comer, y disfrutar de la comida. Tampoco no hay nada intr\u00ednsecamente bueno si rechazamos lo bueno del mundo material. Pero Jes\u00fas ve\u00eda un problema con el hambre que lleva a una persona a una angustia f\u00edsica. Por ejemplo, cuando alimentaba a las cuatro mil personas, \u00e9l estaba preocupado en que la gente no pudiera llegar a casa por causa de su hambre (Mateo 15:32ff). Pero, \u00bfEl hambre f\u00edsico era la preocupaci\u00f3n principal de Jes\u00fas? No. Jes\u00fas sanaba las enfermedades, expulsaba a los demonios, y resucitaba a los muertos. Pero ninguno de esos temas, ni todos, eran la preocupaci\u00f3n principal de Jes\u00fas. \u00c9l no vino simplemente para sanar la gente de sus enfermedades. Vino para tomar encima de s\u00ed mismo nuestra rebeli\u00f3n contra el Creador y restablecer nuestra relaci\u00f3n con \u00c9l mediante su muerte sustitutiva. Dijo, \u201cPorque el Hijo del hombre vino a buscar y a salvar lo que se hab\u00eda perdido\u201d (Lucas 19:10). La manera en que lo hizo fue exactamente como \u00e9l dijo varias veces a sus seguidores, \u201cTengo que morir\u201d (Lucas 9:22, 44; 18:31-34). Si hubiese venido simplemente para mejorar nuestras vidas, hubiera podido hacerlo sin morir.<\/p>\n

Y quiz\u00e1 el prop\u00f3sito \u00faltimo de Jes\u00fas nos lleva a la raz\u00f3n por la cual no absolvi\u00f3 el hambre cuando \u00e9l pod\u00eda hacerlo, o \u00bfpor qu\u00e9 no nos cre\u00f3 sin la habilidad de tener hambre? Quiz\u00e1 el hambre f\u00edsico puede dirigirnos a algo m\u00e1s grande. Quiz\u00e1 el dolor que sentimos en nuestros est\u00f3magos nos recuerda que somos d\u00e9biles. Quiz\u00e1 la necesidad constante de orar, \u201cDanos hoy nuestro pan cotidiano\u201d nos hace clamar al Gran Proveedor. Quiz\u00e1 el alimento b\u00e1sico, el pan, fue creado para levantar nuestra mirada al Pan de Vida. Quiz\u00e1 mi hambre es algo que Dios est\u00e1 usando para darnos cuenta que Lo necesitamos. Quiz\u00e1.<\/p>\n

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Why is there still hunger if Jesus could solve that issue?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friend: \u201cIf the New Testament account is correct, and Jesus could feed thousands, and essentially make hunger obsolete, why didn\u2019t he?\u201d<\/p>\n

Me: \u201cWhy didn\u2019t he give the people an unending food supply?\u201d<\/p>\n

Friend: \u201cAnd us. If Jesus could fix the problem, why didn\u2019t he solve it all at once?\u201d<\/p>\n

Me: I think that is a very good question. We know that something isn\u2019t right in this world when there is so much hunger. Life isn\u2019t meant to just be a struggle for survival. If it were, we wouldn\u2019t be asking ourselves this question! From the perspective of the Bible, we have to start at the beginning.<\/p>\n

In Genesis we see that hunger is not bad, God created our bodies to process food and hunger is what we need in order to remember to eat. So there is nothing wrong with hunger. But there is something wrong with starvation. If we reject the evolutionary account, starvation didn\u2019t enter in until after man\u2019s rebellion. All sin, starvation, and death came about as a direct consequence of rejecting God as king (Genesis 3).<\/p>\n

As we read in the accounts of the life of Jesus, the Gospels, Jesus experienced hunger. He was hungry because he was fully man. He ate as much as everyone else. He even enjoyed food and the conversation around the table. There is nothing inherently wrong with hunger, eating, and enjoying food. Nor is there something inherently good about rejecting the goodness of the material world. But Jesus did see a problem with hunger which leads to physical distress. For example, in the feeding of the four thousand, he was worried that the people wouldn\u2019t be able to make it home because they were so hungry (Matthew 15:32ff).<\/p>\n

But, was physical hunger the primary concern of Jesus? No. Jesus healed diseases, cast out demons, and raised dead people. But none of those, nor all of those, were the main concern of Jesus. He had not come to merely heal people of their ailments. He had come to take upon himself our rebellion against the Creator and restore our relationship with Him through his substitutionary death. He said, \u201cFor the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost\u201d (Luke 19:10). The way that he would do that was just like what he kept reminding his followers, \u201cI have to die\u201d (Luke 9:22, 44; 18:31-34). If he had merely come to make our lives a little easier, he could have done so without dying.<\/p>\n

And maybe Jesus\u2019 ultimate purpose points us to the reason why he didn\u2019t absolve hunger when he could have, or why he didn\u2019t create us without hunger in the first place. Perhaps physical hunger can point us to something greater. Maybe the pains we feel in our stomach remind us that we are weak. Maybe the constant need to pray, \u201cGive us our daily bread\u201d is meant to point us to our great Provider. Maybe the staple of bread is supposed to raise our gaze to the Bread of Life. Maybe my hunger is something God is using to open my eyes to my need of Him. Maybe.<\/p>\n

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