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To: RnMomof7
Can something never planned or designed exist?

Which goes back to my very first issue that I raised in this thread. Two 10 year old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were found dead, murdered. If you say that there is nothing that has ever that God did not plan or design, then, using that logic, God is the engineer of the murder of these two schoolgirls.

80 posted on 08/19/2002 2:04:25 PM PDT by ponyespresso
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To: ponyespresso
If you say that there is nothing that has ever that God did not plan or design, then, using that logic, God is the engineer of the murder of these two schoolgirls.

Since God is the creator and owner of the universe and all people, He is free to do as He wishes. Murder is taking the life of a person that does not belong to you. Suicide is murder because your life is not your own, it belongs to God. God, in killing anyone, cannot be guilty of murder because there is no one that He does not own. The men who killed the girls are guilty of murder because they had no claim on the life of the girls. God is not guilty of murder because He is merely claiming what is His. God certainly orchestrated the manner in which these girls died, but He is not guilty of their murder, nor can He ever be guilty of murder.

Why does the manner of death matter? God ordains the death of all men. Those who die of cancer do so because God has ordained it. Instead of having people die of cancer, God could have them live for ever, but He chose not to. If God is guilty of murder in the death of these two girls, then He is guilty of murder everytime someone dies. Murder, the unlawful taking of life, cannot be committed by He who created all things, including human life.

I can take my own money, but I cannot steal my own money. By definition. God can kill those He created, but He cannot murder those He created. By definition. Accusing God of engineering murder is irrational.

154 posted on 08/21/2002 8:28:57 PM PDT by Tares
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