I started my second week of strike at university. We voted yesterday and the majority decided that we would continue the strike for another two weeks. Yes it is frustrating.

There is one course that’s still on. Literature. Tonight we talked about Paradise Lost by John Milton, a puritan of the 16oos. I was appalled at how people can interpret a book and then form their own view of God. The conclusion: God is evil and Satan is a pretty nice guy who’s got good reasons for doing evil, he’s not our friend, but still, he probably isn’t worse than God. I really wanted to get up and speak of God’s truth, but there was so many lies thrown at me that I didn’t know where to start and how to be relevant. I felt discouraged and furious at the same time.

I walked to the metro station with a guy and had the opportunity to chat about it with him. We revisited the idea that God was evil, using evil to corrupt mankind and then show up as the hero (man there is so much in-congruency in this concept). I tried to make him understand that God was simply giving us the choice to love Him or reject Him and those who don’t want Him, well it’s too bad but the only place to go where God is not is Hell.

I know that there is more to the issue, we didn’t talk about sin and how God is Holy and how sinners simply can’t spend eternity in His Presence, but we’ve talked about it at other times and hopefully will get to talk about it some more God willing.

I’m furious because people don’t get to hear the truth. They hear each other’s interpretations of a book - not inspired by God and form their own views of God and Satan. The teacher doesn’t help either. It’s not that they absolutely believe everything they hear, but it encourages untruth and sheds a shadow on God, casts doubts on who He is, creates friendship with evil. I have no clue what to do about it but to pray for them all. Presenting the Gospel would be irrelevant to them at this point since they have little to no knowledge of any truth about God. -sigh.