Where Was God?

A few people are asking, but it seems not very many this time. It is certainly a common theme -- asking where the kind, benevolent God of Christians was when such events happen. I do find it rather disturbing that fewer and fewer are even asking this question when such horrible events unfold.

Why don't more people ask, "Where was God?" Maybe because in this country today, that's simply not an acceptable question to even ask. Maybe because since Christians are so openly hated and derided by the media that even the media doesn't want to talk and ask those questions any more. Or perhaps the godless media, now so removed from a once-great, Christian-based country does not even care any more where they might find God.

Of course, if you look towards the campus and it's position, it's clear where God was and is in relation to the campus: not allowed. When the campus decided to have a party pep rally convocation celebrating remembering about the victims, did you notice who they asked to speak first? A Muslim cleric who talked about Allah.

Then they had a Buddhist person come up and declare that all people are good, no matter what Christians say. Next they had a Jewish person come and tell people that "there is a time for everything." Finally, there was a Liberal Lutheran who talked about healing. So the college asked Allah and Buddha to join them, but didn't want God or Jesus Christ there. Heck, the fact that they even invited all those different viewpoints suggests that they're all equal, and none is any better than the other. This is political correctness run amok, despite it's clear conflict with reality!

So where was God? He was watching and hoping someone would invite him to come join them. That's the same place he is now, hoping that people will ask him to come into their lives and help them heal. He's glad to do it, if people would only ask.

Posted by: Ogre at 12:25 PM

Comments

1 God was standing behind the holacost survior holding him up so that his students could get away though the windows.

Posted by: Quality Weenie at April 18, 2007 03:25 PM (BksWB)

2 Most certainly.

Posted by: Ogre at April 18, 2007 03:26 PM (oifEm)

3 I was gonna write what QW said above. Thunder stolen. Drat.

I am actually glad people aren't asking this question though.

Why do people like to blame God for people's actions? Whether it be a murderer like this, or people building their houses in flood plains... yet it's all God's fault when man's plans go skeewoggy. Never did understand that.

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Posted by: birdwoman at April 18, 2007 04:37 PM (vR7Sl)

4 Yeah, QW is pretty sharp.

And I'm mostly worried that people aren't asking this question because they don't care any more. They simply don't want to know the answer.

Posted by: Ogre at April 18, 2007 04:40 PM (oifEm)

5 anyone ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe that god is tired of all the decadence, that he is weary of people murdering his unborn children, that he hates 90% of the garbage that the Hollywood idiots pollute our lives with? maybe he figures "oh, you don't believe in me any more??? well, lets just see how you like this..."

one of the things i learned from the bible is that god is vengeful and i believe he even states that "vengeance is mine"... look at radical Islam... a group of maniacal, violent people that are like that because of their fanatical devotion to what they believe god wants.... its all a yeng-yang situation it is part of the greater cosmic balance...

Posted by: Chris at April 18, 2007 07:58 PM (qz/By)

6 Yes. But every single person who mentions anything like what you stated is immediately blasted by the media, elected officials, and even many "Christians" as a hatemonger. Doesn't matter if you're right or wrong.

Posted by: Ogre at April 18, 2007 08:01 PM (oifEm)

7 God does not intervene with our free will. And sometimes the choices other people make effects us. Has anyone figured our what Ismail Ax means?

Posted by: David at April 18, 2007 11:53 PM (fXOqq)

8 I haven't heard anything about the Ismail Ax thing yet. I wonder if it said something else and the ink smeared or it was read wrong.

Posted by: Ogre at April 19, 2007 12:28 AM (kRDOE)

9 last i hear the ishmail ax thing was also on the information mailed to NBC after he killed the first pair of people

Posted by: chris at April 19, 2007 04:42 AM (qz/By)

10 Nasty stuff now.

Posted by: Ogre at April 19, 2007 08:56 AM (kRDOE)

11 Amen David! I was asked many times in the aftermath of 9/11 "where was God", and my simple reaction was similar to QW's in this case. How long did the towers remain standing past the point of structural failure? And because of that, how many people got out of them? How long did the one man on the VT campus who chose to act in stead of cower remain standing against a gun after his body should have collapsed? And how many students are alive today because of him?

As David said, God granted us free will. WE CHOSE to sin in the garden (humans, and I am not getting into the "it was a woman first" argument here). He told us we could eat from any tree except one, and we went straight for that one tree. Since that day, pain, evil, and death have been a part of our lives. We have salvation if we ask for it, but today's "all of us are equally good society" seems to hate the concept of having to ask for forgiveness. I've said it once, and probably will again, but I will not be shocked if I see someone SUE to go to Heaven.....any bets on when/if that will happen?

Posted by: Smokey at April 19, 2007 07:23 PM (xBtls)

12 God put us on this earth with a mind of our own and rules about right and wrong. He will not stop you from doing the wrong because you know the right and choose to ignore it. Humans are the blame, not God.

Posted by: Scrapiron at April 20, 2007 03:38 AM (2nDll)

13 Very well said, Smokey and Scrapiron. That's what free will is for -- we wouldn't be human if we didn't have that.

Posted by: Ogre at April 20, 2007 11:46 AM (oifEm)






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