God Brought Him to My Door
So...that would mean God followed him around and allowed him to kill people (I won't say "innocent" for only little children are truly innocent.) for the purpose of bringing him to this lady's door and converting him?
A Small Victory - question of the day
"If God is so interventionist as to lead this homicidal maniac to Ashley Smith's door, then why didn't he intervene when Mr. Nichols was mowing down innocent people in a courthouse? Further, why didn't God intervene when Mr. Nichols was (allegedly) raping his girlfriend? Were the deaths and rape all part of some mysterious plan to get Nichols into prison to preach the word?"
Some interesting replies in the comments there.
"if someone out there really thinks this was the work of God, I hope their God never loves me enough to have me innocently gunned down in the process of improving someone else's life."
"Sometimes life just seems like a scary movie, an impossibility; how could so many people seriously believe in a faerie tale? Ah, it's one of the great mysteries..."
I am neither atheist nor agnostic.
I think I've made my belief pretty clear: God intervenes because we are God.
God kills, God saves. God performs miracles and also drowns a sack of kittens in a lake.
The purpose of existence is to Experience. Everything.
Good, Bad and Tween.
God is neither man, woman, nor transexual. God does not look like a human, or anything else for that matter.To argue with the paradox "can God make a boulder so heavy even He cannot lift it" is to assume God has human arms.
If we could see God, we'd be looking at everything that has, does, and ever will exist in all universes. When we say God speaks to us, we are really talking to ourselves.
Jesus' primary message to the world was "I am God, and SO. ARE. YOU."
He didn't just blurt that out though, because Jesus had an ego too, just like the rest of us.
That, and I think he might have realized that few would buy into that bit of information. He probably knew humans need to worship something, an ideal far above and beyond our human frailties.
To say that We Are God is to admit that God Makes Mistakes (which is just a mechanism of Experience.)
Nuff ramblin'.
A Small Victory - question of the day
"If God is so interventionist as to lead this homicidal maniac to Ashley Smith's door, then why didn't he intervene when Mr. Nichols was mowing down innocent people in a courthouse? Further, why didn't God intervene when Mr. Nichols was (allegedly) raping his girlfriend? Were the deaths and rape all part of some mysterious plan to get Nichols into prison to preach the word?"
Some interesting replies in the comments there.
"if someone out there really thinks this was the work of God, I hope their God never loves me enough to have me innocently gunned down in the process of improving someone else's life."
"Sometimes life just seems like a scary movie, an impossibility; how could so many people seriously believe in a faerie tale? Ah, it's one of the great mysteries..."
I am neither atheist nor agnostic.
I think I've made my belief pretty clear: God intervenes because we are God.
God kills, God saves. God performs miracles and also drowns a sack of kittens in a lake.
The purpose of existence is to Experience. Everything.
Good, Bad and Tween.
God is neither man, woman, nor transexual. God does not look like a human, or anything else for that matter.To argue with the paradox "can God make a boulder so heavy even He cannot lift it" is to assume God has human arms.
If we could see God, we'd be looking at everything that has, does, and ever will exist in all universes. When we say God speaks to us, we are really talking to ourselves.
Jesus' primary message to the world was "I am God, and SO. ARE. YOU."
He didn't just blurt that out though, because Jesus had an ego too, just like the rest of us.
That, and I think he might have realized that few would buy into that bit of information. He probably knew humans need to worship something, an ideal far above and beyond our human frailties.
To say that We Are God is to admit that God Makes Mistakes (which is just a mechanism of Experience.)
Nuff ramblin'.
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