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To: Quix
You may not believe in the construction on reality some of us have.

That's an understatement.

Some of us happen to believe that God cares about our behaviors and relates to us accordingly.

No, you turn God into an instrument of vengeance against both the subjects of your moral disapproval, and innocent bystanders.

Quit giving God the finger and doing our own thing our own way or it's only going to get worse.

Someone predicts disaster often enough, and eventually he'll be right, through sheer dumb luck. I won't hold my breath waiting for false prophets to admit all the times they are wrong.

454 posted on 08/30/2005 11:54:55 PM PDT by malakhi
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To: malakhi

Talk about SPIN!

We who believe in G_d do so of our own free will. MOST, if not all of us are able to witness DIRECT actions in our own lives, of the Creator of the universe, His divine mercy, and all its mysteries.

Often, these actions seem to be quite destructive and cruel. There are many reasons why G_d allows people to die from natural disasters.

Foremost (to me, anyways) is that the innocent, and the G_dly MUST suffer along with the sinful, in order that the sinful can know that G_d is JUST!

If a G_d loving man is stubborn enough to think that he is protected from a deadly storm simply because he believes, he has earned G_ds wrath. He will be treated as an unbeliever, simply for his arrogance in G_d's mercy.

There will also be unrepentants who are spared, because they are (in G_d's eyes) worthy of being spared, for purposes only the Almighty knows.

You CHOOSE to deny that what you experience and enjoy daily, is only through His grace. I'm certain that G_d has something interesting awaiting your triggering it. I know that *I* (a major-league atheist/existentialist at one time) did.

Be grateful that YOU and those you hold dear were not within the path of this storm, and pray/wish/hope that such a calamity doesn't occur to the aforementioned.

After all, G_od only knows His purpose, and His plan.


551 posted on 08/31/2005 1:52:30 AM PDT by Don W (The French are worthless in the world and anything they do make we can make better and cheaper.)
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