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I think the thing is that while God chooses sides, we as humans have no way of knowing what side he chooses. We can presume, using ethics as we understand them, that if God is good he must be on the side that we perceive as being good, but we may be wrong.

What I'm saying is that there is no particular reason to attribute a sports victory to God rather than to the relative efforts and skills of the players. Making God a kind of tribal mascot demeans him.

Iraq is different in scale to a Giants versus Seahawks matchup. But even there, we have no way of knowing for sure what God wants to happen. We can maybe presume from the Bible that he wants peace to happen, but we have no idea how he wants us to get there. Maybe an American victory will make the world more peaceful. Maybe it won't. Can either you or I be sure of the answer?

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All I know is that a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. I will not wallow in fear and indecision. I will trust God is for me and Jesus works in me.