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To: AppyPappy
"Or it was an accident."

An accident? God is all powerful. There is no such thing as an accident that God is unable to prevent.

We know that God did not prevent this one. Indeed, it was an accident held up before the eyes of an entire nation. It's true, God did not prevent this. But we know He could have.

Don't you wonder why He didn't prevent it?? Don't you have any ideas??

22 posted on 02/02/2003 5:55:36 AM PST by joyful1
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To: joyful1
There is no such thing as an accident that God is unable to prevent.

Are you saying that God is so weak that He couldn't create something that He couldn't prevent?

Are you saying that God hated those astronauts so He killed them? He's like a great cosmic Hitman? Hmmm...that would also mean that if someone has a tragic accident or disease, then God hated them.

27 posted on 02/02/2003 6:00:46 AM PST by AppyPappy (Will Code COBOL For Food)
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To: joyful1
Don't you wonder why He didn't prevent it?? Don't you have any ideas??

God's wisdom is far more infinte than ours. God's purpose is far more than we can fathom. We cannot infer that God is removing protection from his children, as you have inferred in your continued posts.

If that's your limited perception of God, I would strongly suggest you engage in some serious Biblical study and perhaps correspond with your theologian.

38 posted on 02/02/2003 6:22:59 AM PST by mhking
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To: joyful1
An accident? God is all powerful. There is no such thing as an accident that God is unable to prevent.
Take your logic far enough and one encounters the fact that if Adolf Hitler had dropped dead of a cerebral hemmorage in 1940, millions of undeniably innocent lives would have been saved.

I'm personally an agnostic leaning towards deist, but I've always considered that to be pretty definite proof that if there is a Supreme Being it doesn't routinely involve itself in the day to day affairs of man.

-Eric

44 posted on 02/02/2003 6:30:34 AM PST by E Rocc
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To: joyful1
"God did not prevent this. But we know He could have. Don't you wonder why He didn't prevent it??"

God is not a puppetmaster. His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. It is natural for us to question why when tragedy and disaster strike, but there is not always an easy cause and effect answer. If there were, it would make US the master manipulators, always jumping through hoops to to control the hand of God. Jesus' disciples thought that adversity was always a direct result of sin but He taught them otherwise.

"As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?" Jesus answered, "{It was} neither {that} this man sinned, nor his parents; but {it was} so that the works of God might be displayed in him." (John 9:1-3)

82 posted on 02/02/2003 8:38:08 AM PST by sweetliberty (Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it)
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To: joyful1
Don't you wonder why He didn't prevent it?? Don't you have any ideas??

I see. So, God had no problem with us when we were run by a pervert who not only believed in abortion, but openly promoted it, and rewarded us with economic prosperity. But when we returned to his side, with a rightous man at the helm he decided to punish us? Is that how you see God?

I'm sure there is a mosque somewhere in your vicinity, perhaps you should go check it out, it seems you might be a little more happy with Islam and a cruel and illogical God.

87 posted on 02/02/2003 8:51:40 AM PST by McGavin999
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To: joyful1; wimpycat
An accident? God is all powerful. There is no such thing as an accident that God is unable to prevent.

True. SFW?

We know that God did not prevent this one. Indeed, it was an accident held up before the eyes of an entire nation. It's true, God did not prevent this. But we know He could have.

True. SFW?

Don't you wonder why He didn't prevent it?? Don't you have any ideas??

No, because I don't presume to understand God's ways, unlike some folks who try to give us the impression that they're His drinking buddies...

118 posted on 02/02/2003 4:56:10 PM PST by Poohbah (Beware the fury of a patient man -- John Dryden)
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