Posted on 10/18/2021 9:46:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
The cultural phenomenon of CV19 is one of carefully managed fear, manipulations and virtue signaling.
What other pandemic has had ad campaigns to remind people they are happening?
I don’t walk down the middle of the freeway. God expects me to be prudent in my actions
So a religious fanatic writes an article saying for a Christian death is a good thing. Ok, then why aren’t all the other religious fanatics hurrying to get onboard with that, you know that Jamestown thing.
Berlin_freeper should read this, there are links to other propaganda articles that he has not posted yet. Don’t ever claim I didn’t try to help your cause berlin_freeper.
Ps 118 5-6 (with personal thoughts)
5: I was in anguish and cried unto the lord and he answered by setting me free (God can free folks from the worry of u certainty)
6: The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man (or nature for that matter) do to me?
While we do need to be prudent, we can be released from worry about what man or the natural world can do to us, because our souls are he,d forever in God’s hands for safe keeping for eternity (that doesn’t mean that man or nature won’t harm us, but it does mean that of they do, we go home to be with God forever)
Which includes not driving a rapidly developed sports car whose controls are unlike anything used before, hasn’t been fully tested, and the manufacture cannot be sued.
Really great article. Thanks for posting!
We put our unquestioning trust In Things every day; are, busses other drivers, chairs, escalators etc and usually they don’t let us down. But there is one who will never ,et us down whom we should compete trust in, and that is the one who holds our souls for eternity. Whole we have our part to do to keep safe as we can, ultimately God holds the final say. He determines when we go home regardless of the things we do to try to keep ourselves safe. A d that is what is OK with Christians, not that we take our hands off the wheel while driving and “leave it In God’s hands”, that is just foolishness.
Live your life, do your godly duty by taking precautions where and when necessary and,
Leave the rest to God
I guess we should give up medicine entirely and anything modern. I heard an American architect who was interviewed. He tried to get a Muslim country to improve its building codes so fewer buildings would collapse in earthquakes. All the officials he talked to were indifferent - their attitude was if an earthquake killed many people it was Allah’s will so no point in making stronger buildings.
Considerable blame should be placed on the late 20th-century heretical “prosperity gospel” aka “health and wealth” or “name it and claim it” promoted by Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, etc.
This anti-Gospel had no explanation for death other than to blame the deceased for not believing hard enough that “God want you well”
God does indeed want us well; healed of result of Adam’s fall. That healing has occurred through Christ the New Adam but “if for this life only we have believed in Christ we are of all people most to be pitied.”
It's true that God decides when we die, and death for a Christian means we go to a much better place....
BUT...
There are things I want to do in this life on this earth. As glorious as Heaven is bound to be, I'm not in a hurry for God to call me home.
Which brings us to timing. That God decides when we die, doesn't mean that we can't influence his timing. The timing is not necessarily set in stone and immutable, no matter what we do.
Otherwise, you'd think suicide victims have an incredible sense of timing to off themselves just when the Lord was going to call them home anyway.
So speaking of suicide.... There's a Christian in my office who believes like some Freepers, that we shouldn't be at all concerned about Covid. That our lives are in God's hands and Covid is of no effect. That same Christian missed 2 weeks of work when Covid knocked him down. But he did recover.
I take a slightly different view. If I stand on railroad tracks and see a train coming. There must be at least 1000 ways that God can save me. He can have wind blow me off the tracks, or a wild animal attack and drag me off the tracks. He can transmute my body and allow the train to pass right through me, the way Jesus passed through locked walls in His resurrected body. He could allow the train to hit me, and yet I walk away unscathed. Or he could have doctors put me back together through countless miracles.
But I think, God gave me a brain. And that God given brain is telling me, "Hey Danny! There's a train coming. Get your butt off the tracks!! NOW!!!".
Now if I ignore that God given brain, then God can still save me from the train. But all bets are off. If I'm stupid enough to ignore the brain that God gave me, then who knows what God will do. He might save me despite my stupidity. Or he may facepalm and tell the angels to get my spot in Heaven ready.
Now if God had said to me, "Stand in the way of this train", that would be different. My brain would then have to decide am I going to trust my Creator. Or am I going to trust in my own limited understanding. I'd like to think I'd trust my Creator. I really hope my faith never gets tested that way.
David took on Goliath. And scripture doesn't say that God told David to. But David knew he had been ordained by God to be the future king. He also knew it wasn't God's desire for God's people to be defeated by the Philistines. So David had faith that God would bring a victory in David's favor.
Paul when bitten by the snake, didn't give it much thought, and just shook it off in the fire. Paul also knew God had unfinished plans for him and no snake was going to stand in God's way. But I don't think Paul stuck his hand down there knowing he was going to be bitten. It happened, it was done, and Paul knew he was in God's hands.
Jamestown = Jonestown?
God also requires us to take meaningful steps to preserve innocent human life. From building codes to involuntary manslaughter precautions to not allowing us to kill a fleeing thief.
God is sovereign in all things. Doesn’t mean we have no responsibility. His word says otherwise.
As far as applying that to the lockdowns, there is no precedent for denying people their civil liberties, lying, and fear mongering. No Christian need apologize for failing to participate in these evils.
“It is time for Christians individually and corporately to repent for the way we and our institutions responded to the COVID-19 outbreak.”
It it time President Trump repented for leading a program to fight a virus. People dying in a pandemic is God’s will.
Yep, that’s what I meant. Thank You.
Well, that’s one way the religious fanatics can look at it. Not me though, I believe God gave humans a special brain and the free will to think with it, so I will continue to be a thinker, not a drone like some of them here.
My Mom’s church offered drive-through Communion and Parking Lot Sermons from the git-go. They are finally back inside their church again, masks optional.
Those wacky Methodists finally got one right. ;)
Also - Mom tells me that they are gaining new families by the week.
Yeah, people NEED to get back to the basics and they NEED Jesus. If CovidBS-19 taught us anything, this is it! :)
Jamestown?
I should have read all the comments first.
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