[RnMomof7]

The real mystery is how anyone who believes this can also believe God is good. I know too many people who are grieving for those they loved and lost to believe this could possibly be described as a compassionate act

Hank people die every day..there is no mystery to there is a time to be born and a time to die .We all know that. this is different only because the numbers are so large and we saw it on TV

The loss being suffered by these families is real,but it is no more a loss than if they had died in an auto accident...

We need to have compassion for the families and help them through their loss...but we need to do that for everyone that has a loss..

Someone once told me life is like a tapestry....we only see the backside of it..all the knots and crossed thread...we will not see the pattern of that tapestry untill we are in heaven

[gcruse]

Then we are wrong in wanting revenge?

[Hank Kerchief]

Hank people die every day..there is no mystery... The loss being suffered by these families is real, but it is no more a loss than if they had died in an auto accident...

Absolutely. It's the view that the suffering and deaths are the result of some known or unknown purpose of God, which purpose is presented as good and merciful, to which I object. That kind of purpose is the same as the terrorist's. Someone once told me life is like a tapestry....we only see the backside of it..all the knots and crossed thread...we will not see the pattern of that tapestry untill we are in heaven

The back side of a tapestry is not pretty. I would expect the hidden purposes of a benevolent God to be beautiful. In any case, what this analogy really says is that no one knows what they are doing or why they are doing it. It's "fate" or "predestination." No wonder Christians can be so easily terrified.

Hank