Posted on 01/05/2010 11:32:11 AM PST by freedomyes
So many dead. So many grieving. So many distraught.
Where is God? Where is the good God?
(Excerpt) Read more at grantswank.blogtownhall.com ...
I’ve been asking that question since October for personal reasons. They say it’s “Gods plan” but I just don’t see the good in it ...
the article actually does provide information regarding what you have stated.
please read the post again very carefully, particularly the accent on this being a spiritually fallen sphere with much damaged.
But God, In His goodness and mercy, from before the foundation of the Word, chose to send His own begotten Son, that whosoever believes upon Him, should not perish, but have everlasting Life.
We also believe that children under the age of accountability are also saved in such disasters.
Man is depraved and deserving of hell.
Why should a good God preserve man?
God’ smercy towards man is charity. It is NEVER an obligation.
If you think God owes people intervention, then you dont have a problem with God. You have a problem understanding yourself, and your position in relation to God.
yes
It is just the way the universe works, we seem to take it too personally. If, as C.S. Lewis stated, we are spirits who happen to have bodies, then what happens to the body should be as important in the big picture sense as what happens in a dream.
Others will argue that you can’t have good without suffering. It like you can’t have cold without warm, one is just a degree of the other (cold is the absence of heat).
true
Nobody lives on earth forever. You are granted biological life only very temporarily. Exactly how it ends, who knows, it could end any of a thousand ways. But it will end.
What matters is what you do with the time you have. Build. Create. Love. And be prepared to face God when the moment comes.
remembering reading c. s. lewis’ ‘out of the silent planet’ re a planet that never suffered ‘the fall’?
Read C. S. Lewis’ “The Problem of Pain”. It goes over this very effectively.
So does the Bible.
I’ve often heard that the world is our proving ground, not God’s. If it were all fluffy bunnies and roses, we wouldn’t grow, just as a child doesn’t grow if he doesn’t ween off the breast and learn to digest real food.
Fun to speculate about what the perfect world God designed was (will be) like. If people never died would we have stopped procreating once it was full? Or would we have moved to other planets prepared for us?
Thank you for explaining this in a direct and easy to understand (for me anyway) manner.
SOLOMON ISLANDS: HOW CAN A GOOD GOD ALLOW A TSUNAMI?
because we are born in sin. the price of sin is death. and we are also subject to unforeseen circumstances such as the tides. all this is in the bible.
yes yes yes
true, just as that j grant swank jr stated re solomon islands.
What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.
What DOES kill us sends us to Jesus.
The former is good, the latter is better. So what’s the problem?
Answer: From Eternal Punishment decreed by God who is Holy.
Man can understand god like a fly can understand radio. I don’t even try anymore.
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