here’s a believer’s guide to appropriate responses to natural disasters:
* A tornado warning was called but no torndoes occurred: God loves us.
* Tornadoes occurred but they missed us: God protected us.
* A tornado destroyed our house but didn’t kill anybody: God has spared us.
* A tornado destroyed our house and injured somebody: God is testing us.
* A tornado destroyed our house and killed somebody: Daddy is walking with Jesus.
What do you all think? As believers should we consider God to be in control of every aspect of our lives?
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His banner over me is LOVE.... My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
To be a servant of God, it will cost us our total commitment to God, and God alone. His burden must be our burden... Sis Alvear
I could save that child from the oncoming train, but I don't choose to.
I've used kinda the same analogy in the past. Mine has a person standing by a roadside, sees a child stepping into the path of an oncoming car. All the person has to do is simply reach out and pull the child to safety but instead just stands and watches the tragic event unfold. The question then is, what kind of individual would do such a thing?
Our analogy is flawed though for God (the individual watching the event unfold) created mankind with free will. In the earthly realm, there cannot be a comparison between the free will individual who watches the event unfold and God who watches the event unfold.
It's comparing apples and the creator of the apples.
I've used kinda the same analogy in the past. Mine has a person standing by a roadside, sees a child stepping into the path of an oncoming car. All the person has to do is simply reach out and pull the child to safety but instead just stands and watches the tragic event unfold. The question then is, what kind of individual would do such a thing?
Our analogy is flawed though for God (the individual watching the event unfold) created mankind with free will. In the earthly realm, there cannot be a comparison between the free will individual who watches the event unfold and God who watches the event unfold.
It's comparing apples and the creator of the apples.
It has nothing to do with free will, when a child is about to be killed, whether it's a human standing by and watching, or God.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
It has nothing to do with free will, when a child is about to be killed, whether it's a human standing by and watching, or God.
We all are appointed to die. It is inevitable. God's point of view is much different than our point of view. He knows if that child is killed by that train, then that child will leave his body and pass into the spirit realm which is a better place than this world.
BTW, Timmy, this thread is for you. I know you like to discuss the difficulty people have with a good, all-powerful God and the problem of evil.
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His banner over me is LOVE.... My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
To be a servant of God, it will cost us our total commitment to God, and God alone. His burden must be our burden... Sis Alvear
It has nothing to do with free will, when a child is about to be killed, whether it's a human standing by and watching, or God.
I disagree, it has everything to do with the free will of a person. We live in the system God put us in and for God to intervene in everything, preventing anyone from ever dying or suffering, preventing all earthquakes and tornadoes wouldn't be the system God has for His creation.
Like it or not, some individuals make freewill decisions which harm other people, God has nothing to do with it.
I disagree, it has everything to do with the free will of a person. We live in the system God put us in and for God to intervene in everything, preventing anyone from ever dying or suffering, preventing all earthquakes and tornadoes wouldn't be the system God has for His creation.
Like it or not, some individuals make freewill decisions which harm other people, God has nothing to do with it.
An accident with a train is not someone making a freewill decision to harm a child.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
We all are appointed to die. It is inevitable. God's point of view is much different than our point of view. He knows if that child is killed by that train, then that child will leave his body and pass into the spirit realm which is a better place than this world.
BTW, Timmy, this thread is for you. I know you like to discuss the difficulty people have with a good, all-powerful God and the problem of evil.
There is no "problem of evil" in my "theology".
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. 
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