To: kosta50; Dr. Eckleburg; Quix; Alamo-Girl
The first thing all sorts of Evangelical ministers said when tsunami hit Thailand was "God's wrath!" (morons)Think so huh? Here's a true story related by missionaries from a sister church of ours to Thailand.
At Christmastime that year, the missionaries were told by the local muslim clerics that if they wanted to celebrate Christmas, they had to do it out of sight or there would be repercussions. I take it you might have an idea what those would be?
At any rate, the missionaries took their little flocks and went up into the mountains, and lo! there they were, up high safe and sound while the flood came and took all the others away.
13,491 posted on
04/24/2007 2:57:49 PM PDT by
1000 silverlings
("The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests." Andrew Jackson, President of U.S.)
To: Kitty Mittens
13,492 posted on
04/24/2007 2:59:35 PM PDT by
1000 silverlings
("The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests." Andrew Jackson, President of U.S.)
To: 1000 silverlings; kosta50; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; Dr. Eckleburg; Quix; Kolokotronis
...the missionaries took their little flocks and went up into the mountains, and lo! there they were, up high safe and sound while the flood came and took all the others away. A certain "style of thinking" requires us to rate the probabilities of such a thing happening before we can feel "comfortable" that it could be justified by reason....
Otherwise the implication would be it's just a random thing, a coincidence -- albeit a serendipitous one for the folks on the mountain. :^)
Take your choose: God or the random governs this world....
That given, I'd say God would be the reasonable choice. :^)
13,494 posted on
04/24/2007 4:55:35 PM PDT by
betty boop
("Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- A. Einstein.)
To: 1000 silverlings
At Christmastime that year, the missionaries were told by the local muslim clerics that if they wanted to celebrate Christmas, they had to do it out of sight or there would be repercussions. I take it you might have an idea what those would be? At any rate, the missionaries took their little flocks and went up into the mountains, and lo! there they were, up high safe and sound while the flood came and took all the others away.
I never heard that beautiful story. I'm happy you have firsthand knowledge of the event, or we'd be reading how it was probably a fiction designed to manipulate the masses.
13,497 posted on
04/24/2007 6:00:14 PM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: 1000 silverlings; Dr. Eckleburg; Quix; Alamo-Girl
At any rate, the missionaries took their little flocks and went up into the mountains, and lo! there they were, up high safe and sound while the flood came and took all the others away And this is supposed to mean something?
13,504 posted on
04/24/2007 9:14:52 PM PDT by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
To: 1000 silverlings
What a beautiful testimony! Thank you for sharing it!
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