Posted on 03/24/2011 4:35:38 PM PDT by joeclarke
You can find sin anywhere and tragedy, death, destruction anywhere. Drawing a connection as if you knew God’s mind is for total loons like Fred Phelps.
What about murdering Missouri in the early 1800’s or nuking Northridge in ‘94?
No, but if Yellowstone goes off I might change my answer, and that would explain the apparent lack of the USA being mentioned in the Bible.
If Pat Robertson can be believed, God was on the terrorists side and made 9/11 happen to punish America.
Of course, I don’t believe Pat Robertson, or anyone else who thinks blaming God for acts of man or nature is sensible.
I don’t think anyone knows for sure. I think it is possible that God still punishes nations and Haiti would seem to be a good example.
On the other hand, Christ made it clear that those who died when the “Tower of Siloam” collapsed were not killed because of sin but simply because an accident happened.
Yes to both questions...there are no accidents
“1There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? 3I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. 4Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 5I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”
Jesus is not saying they were more sinful, but they could have been just as sinful to the ones He was speaking to, but
He seems to offer a way out ....”repent.”
“If Pat Robertson can be believed, God was on the terrorists side and made 9/11 happen to punish America.
Of course, I don’t believe Pat Robertson, or anyone else who thinks blaming God for acts of man or nature is sensible”
Its not a matter of “blaming” God. He does do it, and He is not to be blamed for doing something wrong, even though it may be harsh.
New Zealand, like its British-derived, uber liberal neighbor Australia, has become prosperous, thus producing a materialism, accompanied by the usual trappings such liberalism brings, including feminism and Political Correctness, and, of course, the excesses of the radical Green enviromental movement - worshipping Mother Nature over Father God. One only has to look at the anti-Christ denominational churches which have led the way for the blind to lead the blind into the proverbial ditch. New Zealand had become so advanced, or Progressive, that it legalize prostitution in 2004 without a whimper of objection from the churches, thus turning an affluent country into a neo Bangkok, Thailand.
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Spent much time in New Zealand ???
But there's plate tectonics and physics, and human beings living above it are utterly irrelevant to either.
Why would 200,000,000 soldiers attack in the battles of Hamongog and Armageddon for the cattle and other loot of a nation of 4 million people? Armageddon and Hamongog is about more than the recognized state of Israel obviously. In my opinion we default on our treasuries, the rest of the world sees this as grounds for invasion. Armageddon is the recognized state of Israel. Hamongog is us.
Glenn Beck is a mormon...
Joey Smith , the guy who invented the religion of mormonism, said that the mormon god punished the mormons for sin when they were driven out of areas for murder, stealing etc..
Smith said it was the mormon god doing the driving...
It’s a judgment against sin, period.
“You can find sin anywhere and tragedy, death, destruction anywhere. Drawing a connection as if you knew God’s mind is for total loons like Fred Phelps.”
God wants you to know His will. Maybe not everything, of course, but He has laid out some things that is His will -
“But we have the mind of Christ” and “This is the Will of God for You: That You Abstain from Sexual Immorality”
And many other . .
And you presume to know His will?
“What about murdering Missouri in the early 1800’s or nuking Northridge in ‘94?”
No, God did not ordain this. He does not do evil. When He judges, it is not evil.
Nothing happens without God’s permissive will. I recently read that scientists believe that coal mining in Australia and the depletion of water in the coal mines caused the Christchurch earthquake.
no ... just no
“God wants you to know His will
And you presume to know His will?”
Knowing the entirety of God’s will is impossible, needless to day, but He has given His Word to us, and then asks us to do it. Why would a God want us to go around in darkness as to what He wants when He has paid a heavy price to give us the Light?
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