"Why do people always blame this stuff on me?"
Posted on 04/18/2007 10:26:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Evangelist Franklin Graham said Cho Seung-Hui, the killer at Virginia Tech University, was "filled with evil,” and that Satan is responsible for Monday’s mass killings of 32 people at the Blacksburg, Va., campus.
Appearing as a guest Wednesday on Fox News Channel, Graham said the need for healing is great in a community shattered by a madman’s shooting rampage.
"There is a big spiritual need here,” Graham said. "Kids are questioning, ‘Did God abandon us? Why did God allow this to happen?’ . . . They need love, they need our prayers . . . They need a touch from Almighty God.”
Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, sent 20 chaplains from his ministry’s Rapid Response Team to the Virginia Tech campus to help students, faculty and staff deal with their emotions in the wake of the massacre.
Graham placed the blame solely on Satan with Cho as the instrument to carry out his evil deeds.
"There is evil in the world, no question about it,” Graham said. "I believe Satan, the devil, is behind this … This young man was filled with evil. There’s no way to describe the fact that he could go and murder this many people and do what he did without this man being possessed by an evil spirit who brought this carnage on this university.”
Graham said he would counsel forgiveness among the students and families touched by the horrific murders.
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God created the killer, its his fault.
If “satan” was behind this, then why isn’t it happening everyday, everywhere? Based on this thought process, could God not stop it?
Satan?---Isn't that special.
I would think you would view it more as “survival of the fittest” as per your tagline.
The killer is responsible, though satan may have whispered in his ear.
God gave us ALL free will..to choose evil or good.
Choose good.
Satan tempted him, and he made the choice to follow his leading. We always have the final choice. That is what makes us unique in God’s eyes. Satan and God can influence us, but we make the final call.
Well, after reading all the simpletons saying “Satan did it” you tend to want to look for an ounce of logic and reason.
Perhaps brainwashed into victimhood by the liberals helped satan.
you tend to want to look for an ounce of logic and reason.
If you keep looking, you will find Him...
you tend to want to look for an ounce of logic and reason.
If you keep looking, you will find Him...
Evangelist Franklin Graham, just like his Dad.
God created you. Therefore your bigotry is His fault.
Not really...it's yyour fault. Just wanted to show you I could do it too.
See Genesis 3. The Fall of Man wrecked the world in a profound way and we're stuck with it until Christ's work of redemption is complete.
No, just turning it back on the creationists.
They are all for God doing micromanagement and creation when its convenient, but when it looks bad, its all Satan’s fault.
Nice easy way to explain things.
"Why do people always blame this stuff on me?"
That's not to say I don't believe that true evil and Satan don't exist, but at some point most of us are responsible for our own behavior.
God gave everyone the gift of "free will", what each of us chooses to do with that gift is our responsibility. In the end, God has the final judgement. It's inexcuseable to blame a loving God for all the evil in the world. God is not evil, Satan is.
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