[SeekAndFind]

God cares about the details, if for no other reason, because God cares about us.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Thanks for posting -and I agree with every word of the commentary.

[neodad]

Amen...

[samtheman]

The single most distinctive doctrine in all of Christianity is the doctrine of the Incarnation.

I'm not sure that means He gets involved in the details. What about the concept of Free Will? Where does that fit on the hierarchy of "distinctive doctrine" in Christianity?

If God cares about the details, why would he care more about the outcome of a football game than he did about the outcome of Hitler's death camps?

Obviously, in the latter he allowed history to take its course. Evil prevailed because humans chose evil of their own free will.

That principle somehow breaks down in sports? God directs the trajectory of a football, but not the path of a death train?

Doesn't make much sense to me.

[Alberta's Child]

Any questions about God's involvement in sports can be examined through a detailed viewing of Chariots of Fire, along with subsequent research on the subject. The movie is based on the parallel stories of two athletes competing for Great Britain in the 1924 Olympics in Paris. One of them is Eric Liddell, a devout Christian from Scotland who competes for the glory of God. The other is Harold Abrahams, a Jewish law student at Cambridge who admits that his running is an obsession and a "weapon" that he uses to overcome anti-Semitic prejudice in England's institutions.

I won't ruin the story for anyone who hasn't seen it, but I'd recommend it highly. I'd also recommend watching it 3-4 times to pick up on a number of nuances that can sometimes be very subtle.

It's also worth doing some research on the main characters to see just how important the religious element of the story is, in a way that isn't made clear in the movie. On the one hand the "religious" aspect of the story is somewhat diminished in the movie because Liddell's Christianity and Abrahams' largely secular Judaism appear to be two parallel tracks to the same end. But the truth can be found in "the rest of the story" ... which is the answer to this question that might have come to mind for anyone who has seen the movie more than once: Why does the opening scene of the movie involve a memorial service for Abrahams -- years after the 1924 Olympics -- in a Christian church?

[ROTB]

Great thread ping.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

“I think number one is, what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn’t make you any more special than anybody else, doesn’t mean God loves you more than anybody else.”

Tim Tebow

[Biggirl]

God puts a Tebow or a Lin to be witnesses to what is greater than sports.

[RnMomof7]

God cares about the hairs on our brush, the sparrow in the tree and the lilies in the fields ..so to think He has no interest in the affairs of men is to diminish Him..