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To: sinkspur; Siobhan; Polycarp
It comes entirely from my desire to belittle Polycarp's Fallwellian-Robinsonian notion that God needs to hurl down some hellfire to teach sinners a lesson.

That's up to God, of course, but He's done it before, and terrible things are predicted in the Bible. Usually, in the Bible, when things get really bad sin-wise, God steps in to teach a lesson.

141 posted on 02/14/2003 9:59:45 AM PST by yendu bwam
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To: yendu bwam
Usually, in the Bible, when things get really bad sin-wise, God steps in to teach a lesson.

In hindsight, that's how the Old Testament writers explained cataclysms. That's also how they determined who was just, and who wasn't, until Job came along.

You are free to believe that God is just waiting to drop the hammer on America if you wish.

As for terrible things being predicted, yes. But in a world where terrible things happened in the past, predicting that terrible things will happen in the future is a pretty safe bet.

151 posted on 02/14/2003 10:15:06 AM PST by sinkspur
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