‘Our good Lord wanted him home NOW.’
for what possible reason would a good deity create a person, giving him 28 years to form the basis of his entire future, then snuff the guy in a freakish occurrence that might happen once every century, thus rendering the life he did allow him to be devoid of any substantial meaning...?
what possible benefit was derived from this man’s death...?
You are questioning God's motives? Lol. Good luck with that.
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We can’t bring God down to our level and try to rationalize circumstances based on what’s in our minds.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.” Isaiah 55:8 King James Version (KJV)
for what possible reason would a good deity create a person, giving him 28 years to form the basis of his entire future, then snuff the guy in a freakish occurrence that might happen once every century, thus rendering the life he did allow him to be devoid of any substantial meaning...?<<
And the answer has always been, when we can know all the deity knows, the question can be answered. Is free will the answer? Is there a butterfly in the equation? How is there evil in the world? If you trust God, that is an answer and it is not in knowledge but belief. It is also non epistemological and thus proofs are just linguist jibber jabber.
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DK
Similar could be asked of any death, for any cause, young or old.
Death is a reality of this present life that none of us can escape.
There is no prescribed manner of death for anyone, except that it happen.
One thousand years from now, it won't matter how long any of us, our children, or grandchildren lived.
Perhaps you should ask
what benifit was his life?
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Isaiah 57:1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
That’s one possibility.
Maybe the guy’s life had great meaning. We don’t know what he accomplished in his life.
Maybe the guy’s meaning was to warn the rest of us that we don’t know how long any of us have.
Maybe the guy was evil (hope not) and God was sparing others.
There are many many possibilities.
And man often uses humor to deal with freakish events.
The Lord needed a firmware engineer for a project...?
The standard Cop-Out: "God works in mysterious ways."
You will have to take that up with God. He, and only He, determines the length of our time on earth, from the beginning to the end. The Bible teaches us that He knew us well before we were conceived in the womb of our mother.
Personally, I believe that you never want to be on an airplane, full of people whose time is up, when yours is not. You will not have a pleasant flight.
Not knowing this man it is difficult to say, knowing God however I am sure it’s not Gods fault.
Of what possible reason would God bless a man with 28 years to live, love and walk his creation if all he as a man can do is take a dump on it?
Must be a pretty nice God huh?
Most of them are not even grateful...
Maybe to send you message that you should do something worthwhiile with your life.
Once a wild Redwood tastes human blood, it is no longer fearful of falling upon man.
Stay out of that Redwood forest.
Mayne it was to serve as a lesson to be careful of Mother Nature, as she can be a real b!t#h.
“what possible benefit was derived from this man’s death...?”
Perhaps more than from your entire life.
I’m just saying. . .