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Originally Posted by pelathais
Generally, I take it to mean that the discernable laws of the predictable behavior of these chaotic events cannot now be perceived.
Thus, events appear to be random and without design or concern for the established norms of "justice;" and in spite of this we hold out confidence that things will sort themselves out in the end into a pattern reasonably acceptable as "good."
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I dunno, "God is in control" seems like a tautology, or a self-fulfilling prophecy, or something. It can't possibly be disproved: nothing that ever happens could possibly be bad enough for us to say, "God slipped up". We can always say that He allowed it to happen for some greater good.
And who gets to decide what is good? Humans will never agree on some things (like Res 4, e.g.). So, leave it to God, right? Well, that would be another convenient way of proving that "God is in control" -- no matter what happens, God must think it was good. He allowed it to (or made it) happen, after all.
And to say that God is literally "in control" is to point a big finger of blame right at Him! 9/11? God was in control. Hitler? God controlled him.
Sometimes I think we say things just because we've heard others say them all our lives, without really thinking about what they mean.
Just rambling.
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