Actually, what "we" need to do is to stay on topic.
The topic of this thread is Francis Schaeffer's personal letter, dated August 28, 1969, on "Being Angry at God". If you have something edifying to post, I'm sure we would love to read it. Otherwise, I would ask that you be a man of your word, leave the thread so that others can post their thoughts without criticism, and not attempt to start another flamewar yourself.
sure no problem alex - It wasnt actually criticism - rather a discussion on Harleys "me" centered comment that God causes everything in Harleys life, for "good" - when clearly Matt tells us otherwise -
You guys still believe in a soveriegn God right?
In keeping with your wishes - the subject is dropped
So this is a post without criticism thread, huh?
Interesting.
In the midst of a fallen world things are abnormal; they have been changed from that which God made them originally.
I've been told he made them to be exactly as they are now. Thus nothing is abnormal... Maybe I was told wrong.
Christ could be angry at the tomb of Lazarus as He faced the abnormality of death; and we have a right to be angry too.
Jesus wept.
But to be angry at God is both silly and blasphemous.
You got a scripture for that, Francis?
One cannot have the Christian answer that men are really significant in history and then expect God to eradicate every wrong result from that significance while allowing the good aspects of that significance to still operate. If man can influence history, he can influence it for evil and cruelty, as well as for good and noncruelty...
Huh?
BTW, I expect no criticism of my comments.