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Originally Posted by mizpeh
Are you a Deist, Pelathais? Did God get the ball started and then take his hands off it and let come what may? Or is He intimately involved in the direction of events of the world we live in?
Nah 1:3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. |
In the first paragragh you give me something of a false dilemma. So, let me restate your question:
Either pelathais is a deist or he believes that an angry and easily irritated God kills
small children. Which of these best describes me?
As I said in the post, I don't think I can adequately explain this issue within the small confines of this little box into which I am typing. Unlike some who would misquote Nahum, I do not attribute the wrath of a storm to the "wrath of God." I have seen the devastation of storms (both natural and political) and I am persuaded that the morality of God is at a higher plane than that of an oversized and ill mannered King Kong-like beast.
