[sinkspur]

I believe that God allowed it..to acheive His purposes

Of course God allowed it.

Earlier, you said He caused it. I'm glad to see you're having second thoughts.

Billy Graham, who has spent sixty years preaching from Scripture, said on national television at the Prayer service that he couldn't explain this horrible act.

Those of you who can baffle the hell out of me.

[Aliska]

Those of you who can baffle the hell out of me.

The way I choose to look at it is that sometimes God allows a great evil to bring about a greater good. Trying to read more into it would seem folly to me. Also I didn't think that one up by myself; I heard E. Michael Jones express that in an entirely different context.

[RnMomof7]

I said eithor God caused it or he allowed it..I see little difference in the statements..If God allows it,it is to achieve His purpose,and in effect by not stopping it he caused it to happen.

One is direct intervention and the other indirect..both or eithor achieve His purposes.

Just as God allowed Job to lose everything..He did not cause it..but He gave Satan permission to do it

Eithor God is in charge or He is not

[NeoCaveman]

Billy Graham, who has spent sixty years preaching from Scripture, said on national television at the Prayer service that he couldn't explain this horrible act.

Thanks sink, you are absolutely right (did I just say that) the Rev. Graham is a great and holy man, I am Catholic, btw. Falwell and Robertson should look in a mirror, they may see the "Revs." Jackson and Sharpton looking back. Media whores the four are. May God have mercy on their souls, all four of those media whores.

[George W. Bush]

Billy Graham, who has spent sixty years preaching from Scripture, said on national television at the Prayer service that he couldn't explain this horrible act. Yes. But the last forty-five of those sixty years, the Reverend Graham has been apostate from his own denomination.

If your pope had spent the last forty-five years undermining the doctrines of the church of Rome, I doubt you'd be too interested in anything he said.

Invoking the Reverend Graham doesn't mean any more to me than quoting the Reverend Jackson or the Reverend Sharpton.