Originally posted by FAEbGBD:
So we're back to genocides again eh? Didn't take long to revive that.
Personally, I'm not living in that situation, so I really don't have much knowledge about what God is doing in those situations. How about asking the missionaries that visit some of those places? I'm not qualified to say what God's up to in far reaches of the globe. It's still free will, ruled largely by natural events. Wolves still kill deer, some people still kill other people. God really doesn't go around zapping all the bad people. There are evil spiritual influences in the world too, not just God. As I said earlier, there's a difference between God's perfect will and what God allows to happen that really doesn't make his day. How could there be free will if there wasn't evil?
No, not every gig I get is divinely appointed. Far from it, and I thought I'd made that clear. The point was the big picture. I'm doing what I can to take care of myself, and treat people well. I'm not sitting around waiting for god to "Fix" things. But when stuff shows up that I had nothing to do with, and it blesses my life, just maybe there was influences beyond my own doing that helped.
[This message has been edited by FAEbGBD (edited 05-22-2010).]
So why the need to believe in something if neither we nor "God" have any control? It seems to me that "God" only has control when we're dead? Yet, according to the bible God had control and did enjoy zapping or drowning people. I doubt that there weren't any children in Sodom and Gomorrah. What about the Great Flood? How many children and innocent people drowned then? Wouldn't that make him a mass murderer?
Finally, if God created everything, didn't he create "evil" as well? Lucifer's jealousy had to be created by God. Sin had to be God's creation. I mean, how can something evolve when it's not created?
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Bo pen nyang.
[This message has been edited by Taike (edited 05-26-2010).]
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