Posted on 06/13/2016 6:11:02 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Well, it’s our fault too if we internalize America. It’s not a divine covenant country.
Let every man be a liar, yet let God be true
It took a few weeks for the 9/11 attacks to be recast as tragedy instead of outrage. Did you ever ask yourself why media pictures of the Tower jumpers went from prevalent to non-existent? Possibly you remember the flag flying that rather quickly morphed from nationalism to yearning in the form of yellow ribbons.
What’s the point? People who are outraged are likely to do things or demand that things be done. Plus, they might fuel the dreaded ‘backlash,’ the fear of backlash being used to further innervate demands for action.
In the case of Obama, even mentioning Islam or ‘illegal aliens’ is suppressed because actions against either is anathema to the Muslim-raised America-hater in the White House.
The notion that God is in control further dampens reaction. It’s a decadent, doomed civilization that sees self-preservation as hostility toward others.
Except, of course, God really IS in control. Theology 101.
We should not react to the world as the world reacts, as though Christianity were some human-centered club.
The Christian name of the game isn’t “self preservation” but “God elevation.”
God never promised an absence of martyrdoms. However He did promise to multiply Christendom itself “like the sand of the seashore.” When martyrdoms occur, they make sense in God’s plan. Grace is shed on many others as a consequence.
God in control? Fifty people killed for no reason...
You have to wonder what God has in mind, don’t you?
Ultimately the question comes down to: do we want to be a club of “religious people.” Or do we really want to dive into CHRISTianity? Emphasizing the CHRIST?
Clubs of religious people, I have no advice for.
But CHRISTians, I would advise to listen to His paradoxical plan. It works! Guaranteed! But it requires SELF sacrifice including the risk that not all will live.
Be the world’s or be Christ’s. But you can’t long sojourn being both.
For no reason? God would laugh you to derision.
Do you believe the bible is God’s word?
Yea, I’ve had it.
Just had it.
To the extent there is a God, yes.
In other words, no.
If you mean the Orlando gay club shooting... latest news is that it was some disgruntled Islamic gay getting back for whatever reason, under the name of jihad.
I doubt a single actual Christian was killed there.
Well then we really have no basis of discussion, if you just want to theorize up whatever concept of God sounds comfortable to you in the moment, without recourse to documentation.
I doubt a single actual Christian was killed there.
Yes, if you have no room in your head for the wisdom of God (e.g. that wickedness eventually destroys itself) then there is no basis for further discussion.
But if you ever have the notion to crack open a bible, then we could talk again.
The God-is-in-control folks are just absolutely RIGHT. Will we take lessons from this, or will we continue to pretend the world belongs to us?
Let me put on my MAGA prophet cap.
Big fat hint from God: if you want to see less of this, then DO WHAT YOU CAN TO CUT DOWN ON THE WICKEDNESS QUOTIENT.
That includes sane civil governance, an emphasis on the Gospel, the church living out what it preaches, etc. etc.
Now was that hard?
See less of what? Muslim massacres? Don’t you think
if Jesus could stop this, he would? Or is easier for
you to just blame the lapsed for their own fate?
A God that would permit the Jewish Holocaust might not
even be worthy of worship. And that’s not hard at all.
It was done with tongue planted in cheek, kind of. I have no use for my Pope and see him as a huge problem.
oh, that makes me feel better. :) sorry for not catching the sarcasm.
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