[7thson]

I know there is God. I know it in my soul. I know that God exists when I wake up in the morning and my wife is still alive. She is a cancer survivor as far back as 1993. At one point - back in Dec 1997 - a spot was found on her other breast during a mamagram. A week went by, after much prayer, and when it was time to do the biopsy, the spot was gone. God touched my wife and made her better.

The point being, who do you turn to in your most dire need? Who will be there for you? At the moment of death, whose name will you call out?

[jlogajan]

The point being, who do you turn to in your most dire need? Who will be there for you?

Who caused you to be in your most dire need in the first place?

We excuse a cat who torments his prey before he kills it because we understand that the cat is merely practicing his eye-paw coordination, his means of survival.

What's God's excuse for tormenting those he allegedly created and will eventually kill?

If God created everything, then he created evil and is RESPONSIBLE for its occurance.

If a young kid finds his daddy's gun collection and ends up blowing his sister's brains out, we blame the parents. Yet when God's collecton of evil harms one of us or our loved ones -- who blames God? Why the double standard?

The reason the movie theme couldn't deal with the fact that God also was the creator of the harm that befalls man is because it would turn too many people off the concept of God. There are just some contradictions in religious belief that CANNOT honestly be dealt with because the conclusions we'd draw from them would put God in, shall we say, a very distasteful light.