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To: snarks_when_bored

God didn't kill those people, a tsunami did. I don't see how you can think that woman wasn't blessed. She's alive isn't she.

Personally I like the design. When I die, I get to live for eternity in heaven. If you've accepted and believe in that Designer you complain about, you've got nothing to worry about. If God were an evil god, he would have just left us to die without any hope. It's not his fault some people reject Him. He's done everything outside of take away our free will to convince us. Would you rather he made us robots with no choice but to believe in our creator. If you reject God all your life and then get killed in a tsunami, you have no one else to blame for your eternity but yourself.


18 posted on 12/30/2004 10:32:08 PM PST by Giliad (Ouside of a dog a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.)
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To: Giliad
God didn't kill those people, a tsunami did. I don't see how you can think that woman wasn't blessed. She's alive isn't she.

I didn't say God killed the tsunami victims. However, it's a direct conclusion from the young woman's account that God could have saved any or all of those victims. Certainly, she seems to think that she was specifically saved, protected, by God, as a result of prayer.

Personally I like the design. When I die, I get to live for eternity in heaven. If you've accepted and believe in that Designer you complain about, you've got nothing to worry about. If God were an evil god, he would have just left us to die without any hope. It's not his fault some people reject Him. He's done everything outside of take away our free will to convince us. Would you rather he made us robots with no choice but to believe in our creator. If you reject God all your life and then get killed in a tsunami, you have no one else to blame for your eternity but yourself.

I'm not worried about anything and I'm not complaining at all. I'm quite pleased that the universe doesn't appear to be arranged in the way that the young woman thinks it is. If it were, it might be possible for devout radical islamists to actually convince allah that it's best if they be allowed to take over the world. What an awful mess that would be.

And if I get killed in a tsunami, I won't be blaming anybody for anything...I'll be dead.

30 posted on 12/30/2004 10:45:34 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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