Posted on 01/12/2010 8:05:30 PM PST by freedomyes
So many dead. So many grieving. So many distraught.
Where is God? Where is the good God?
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>>What about Job?<<
Great minds....??
You don't seriously believe that, do you?
Besides, if God is all-powerful, how can anything that anyone does be detrimental to God?
> EZ. A good God allowed his only begotten Son, the creator
> of the universe, to be born in the most humiliating
> circumstances in a cattle shed and then be tortured and
> crucified and buried in a stranger’s grave.
All that for *YOUR* *BLOODY* SINS!!
> So what’s there to raise this issue of a “good” God?
Here’s what there is.
Do you have children?
Are they not, in a manner of speaking, your own Creation? Made in your likeness and image?
Would you be willing to die for your children?
Imagine there is a King and a Just Judge. One who must always judge with complete impartiality and honesty.
The Accuser brings before this King one of His own dear children, caught in an act worthy of death. What can the King do? To set the guilty free would be the gravest injustice that would shake the foundations of His Kingdom.
To condemn His dear child is more than He can bear.
What can He do?
The *ONLY* thing He could do to set His child free and to still effect Justice is to take the place of His dear child and suffer the penalty of Death in his child’s place.
Jesus did that for YOU.
Willingly.
He’s waiting for you now.
All you need to do is call upon His name, ask His forgiveness for sending Him to that torturous death, and ask Him to SAVE YOUR SOUL!
Do it!
You have *NOTHING* to lose and *ETERNAL BLISS* to gain!
I smell a troll looking for controversy.
Truth BUMP!!
And yesterday was another one of these threads. And very bossy for a newbie. I say RETREAD troll.
3 seconds separating responses that I think were intended to be paired... And, somehow, they were.
Wonder how that happened ;-)
Then I realized you posted only the title in an inflammatory fashion to draw us into taking a look.
The Author only asks the question rhetorically to provide the same answer we already know throughout Judeo-Christianity.
Till the close of Earth’s history, tragedies will continue to spill themselves over the face of the planet — since Adam and Eve first fell for the Lie. But out of every tragedy, faith can lift the arm of hope toward good God. In doing so, victory is assured through the tears. Eternity will prove it to be true.
I thought of the same verses you quoted in #15. Although tragedy tempts some people to imagine God's judgement on the victims, the truth is, apart from Jesus we all deserve judgement.
It's a good time to take stock.
THANKS
true
that is the realistic sum of it, isn’t it?
much appreciation. . .
you said:
Should they choose not to consult the Scriptures, that is not God’s fault.
right on!
yes, theology. the forgotten subject.
thanks for the reminder.
it IS a terrific time to take stock, as you wisely put it.
‘HE’S GOT THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD IN HIS HANDS’ : SHAKING UP WITH EARTHQUAKES
http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2010/01/hes-got-whole-wide-world-in-his-hands.html
Oh yeah, we here in the USA are so righteous, unlike those filthy Haïtians.
Here's a news flash for you: if any country deserves a dose of God's wrath, it's the U.S. of A. At least the Haïtians don't kill a million babies a year in the name of freedom.
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