Posted on 07/07/2014 6:50:03 PM PDT by Kartographer
The collapse will bring out the best and worst in all of us. Many of us will question why the collapse has happened. Many of us will wonder if God is punishing us for our personal or collective national sins, including abortion, promiscuity, pornography, drug addiction, and allowing other types of idols to creep into our lives. Now that the deceptive shackles of toys, gadgets, and other distractions have been stripped away, many of us will be sincerely looking for answers to some difficult questions: Why did my best friend die, but I survived? Why are there so many people who are dying of hunger? Why doesnt the government do something about it? Is it really true that some people purposely caused this to happen? How could they be so evil? How could a loving God allow all this suffering and death to occur? Am I going to be the next one to die?
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Preppers’ PING!!
God is never to blame for the failures of man.
Failures come when people don’t have God in their lives.
“Failures come when people dont have God in their lives.”
That has been our condition since Adam and Eve disobeyed God.
no offense but every single question posed in the article, i will not be asking.
there won’t be time. the luxury to introspectively wallow and feel bad for what’s been lost will need to wait.
This is not the time for Laundry Lists.
This is the time to go see the Cleaner.
A very self-righteous statement. And totally contradicted by scripture.
Failures come to all who walk this planet, including those who love and walk with God.
God does not promise success, but to give grace to those who look to Him.
But, beware - the proud and self-righteous He leaves to themselves, and pride comes before a fall.......i.e., if you think you won’t fall or fail, that seals your fate that you will........
“Why doesnt the government do something about it?”
Seriously? I stopped reading right there and then.
*Rolleyes*
“Why doesnt the government do something about it?”
Seriously? I stopped reading right there and then.
*Rolleyes*
Diana you been around long enough to know that there are even FReepers who are depended on the Government in SHTF. Its one of their bullet points when they make fun of us preppers.
“SELF” righteous?
No statement could be more “GOD” righteous.
It really sounds like you are tilting at some imaginary windmill.
Spiritual failure comes from not inviting the Lord into one’s life. Nothing is asserted here about earthly “failures.”
Maybe as a rhetorical question that is supposed to elicit the observation “Well, it can’t!”
I know. I know!
We’ll just keep fighting the good fight and end up on the TOP of the heap when TSHTF. :)
Any time a catastrophic event occurs, people will always point the finger on GOD, for allowing it to happen. That is human nature. They forget, that they have been warned of this happening, many, many, years before. There is the 10 commandments. In these 10 COMMANDMENTS, GOD is saying; “IF YOU FOLLOW THESE 10 RULES, YOUR LIFE WILL BE HAPPIER”. Like, DON’T LIE, DON’T CHEAT, BE HONORABLE IN YOUR DEALINGS WITH OTHER PEOPLE. Instead, people have “itching ears”, and listen to people that tell them that they have been “VICTIMIZED” by another group, and the only way they can make it right is for having government do their stealing for them.
M4L
“Pride goeth before a destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
Proverbs 16:18
CA....
Say your prayers and keep a bible in your kit. I’d like to think I’m saved. But I’m sure not in a hurry to end my time on this rock.
This is an excellent article - “Is Prepping Biblical?”
and there is always this article if you and/or someone else you know aren’t really ready
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