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I still bristle at people who blame my Heavenly Father for sickness, poverty and death. God is love. He does not abuse His kids!

PREACH IT!!! You are a breath of fresh air and it's obvious, you KNOW HIM!

[Quix]

INDEED.

AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!

[Quix]

I think there are some mysteries . . . particularly with some folks along some of these lines and issues.

However, on the whole, I think that’s essentially quite thoroughly accurate.

PRAISE GOD.

[boatbums]

I still bristle at people who blame my Heavenly Father for sickness, poverty and death. God is love. He does not abuse His kids!

Who is "blaming" God? Paul said he learned to be content in times of want, in whatever state he was in, and he learned the sufficiency of God's power and grace when he suffered and was weak. If we never had a problem, how would we learn patience? How would our faith grow if we always had every thing we needed and never knew sickness or pain? How would we learn to trust Him? How sad to shortchange God that we have to see his plans for our lives as "abuse" instead of chastisement and discipline - that proves we are HIS and that he is working in our lives. David knew loss, Job knew suffering, Abraham knew fear, Moses knew want and ALL of them are our examples of faith THROUGH those trials. Read Hebrews 11 if you really want to see God's purpose for suffering. He is NO fairy godmother or Santa Claus.