"Because I said so! (I was predestined to say that.)"
Everytime I hear someone say something like that, I think of stories like this:
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/7964092/detail.html?rss=bal&psp=nationalnews
Did she die when she was supposed to?
How do you know?
***Did she die when she was supposed to?***
My answer: Yes, because God is in charge of all things, even our death.
As tragic as this story is, there are thousands just like it every day. A man drowns while saving a cat in a river, a woman dies while driving her car, a man has a heart attack right next to the fire station and no one can help him, a baby is carried off by a lion in Africa, thousands die of cholera... I can pick any day and find stories just as tragic, but does that mean they didn’t die a minute earlier or later than they should have?
"Because I said so! (I was predestined to say that.)"
Luke 13
1 There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Amos 3:6
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
“She was very happy — energetic, entertaining. She’d dance, act, whatever she could do. She’s not going to be able to do it because of the stupidity of a gun that we can not get off our streets,” the victim’s cousin, Tonya Harris, said.
Note to Tonya: Guns do not kill people. People with guns kills people.