Christianity is about having seen the face of God. No one made the image, but God.
Savior Not Made By Hand
Novgorod School, 12th Century
About Katrina
(As you must know, the Storm inspired a great many conversations about the problem of evil and God's purpose in permitting great disorders of nature in this fallen world. The knee-kerk evangelical response is that Katrina was God's judgment on a sinful world — as opposed to them, of course.)
My experience with this was watching Gaza handed to the Terrorists and the Israeli being dragged out of their homes...I was in tears...and on my face...knowing that the US political agenda should not be forcing Israel to give up land not only given them by God but won by them in battle.
The price would be a high one for the US.
(if we play by the same rules...and not be hypocrites.. California needs to go back to Mexico and this whole country needs to be given back to the Indians.)
I was in New Orleans traveling a month before Katrina...I stood on Bourbon Street with friends and said...God is going to give this place a good scrubbing. They laughed but He did!! And made homeless just about as many people as we did with Gaza and our political agendas.
The next thing I fear is..when a Cat. 5 hits land like that, it moves things and sets the stage for further events. IF we make Israel give 1/2 of Jerusalem to terrorists....watch the Madrid Fault. God help us!!
People do have a tendency to scoff at God's judgments but yet blessings are also a judgment, he does do both. We should not be so puffed up that we risk his anger, just like our earthly dads.
I must say that I do HATE religion...ALL of them. Because it is not about religion it is about a relationship with the God that made us and all we have or see. It is about us personally knowing HIS nature, HIS ways and he said our ways are not his ways.
Mankind is making God in its imagine not the other way around, and it is being done through religions. I should not be able to identify your Christianity by any other title than a believer...pure and simple. God will not identify us by our denominations or organizations...we will stand as we are. Our names written in the Lambs Book of Life or NOT. I fear for people making their Christianity an Idol...more than Christ who paid the ultimate price to give us what we have.
Christianity is about having seen the face of God. No one made the image, but God.