You were amazingly politically astute at the beginning of the thread.......now you cant comprehend that old time religion. Why am I NOT surprised.
you still aren’t helping me out.
Am I supposed to get a grip on the concept of sin and punishment?
Am I supposed to get a grip on the fact that the Hatians are being punished for sin?
Which came first, plate tectonics or Haiti?
The “hand of protection” theory about God presupposes that bad things happen all the time due to the fall of Adam and Eve and only the hand of God can keep bad things from happening.
The other theory would be that God will actively cause something to happen like an Earthquake or whatever.
So I’m not really sure what your trying to say. But Pat Robertson bringing up some old “sold their soul to the devil” story from 200 years ago just seems like a silly thing to say with a straight face. If fact you would have to be blessed/cursed with a HUGE amount of self confidence or delusion to make a claim like that. Maybe he is right, maybe he is wrong dunno but I do know that Pat is wrong more than he is right, and I also know that we can keep that kind of speculation in the pulpit.
so I still don’t know what you want me to get a grip on.