Monsieur - abiblestudent,
not to argue with your honest 'take' on the subject, but God not 'approving' doesn't really add up to anything anymore. i too had a strong attachment to your ideas regarding God's interventions or lack thereof. Yet how ironic that as a jw my 'beef' isn't with some organization or some group of men, rather it's with God.
Because ultimately man is almost totally useless in his desire and effort to 'build up and mend'. Yet it was God who created Earth and put man in it. I feel that somewhere along the way the idea of 'accountability' became lost on God. If EArth was a trully and simply a 'test', I don't believe (or I'm having an incredibly difficult time accepting) that witnessing the sorry and violent effects of man's hatred was suppose to feel this terrible, much less experiencing it. Besides, for whom is this 'testing' going on? Those that are simply witnessing the misfortune, surviving it? Where is the sense of justice in that? If this is so, than we trully are not equal, though we be all human.
Did God really decide who would be tested and who would be the victim of such 'test'?
Hi Monsieur, I do not believe that I wrote or implied that God is not 'approving'. That sounds like something a JW would think.
What I wrote or meant for you to understand was that many humans blame God, question God for doing all the bad things in life, or for not preventing bad things, such as earthquakes, wars, etc. How many times in your life have you prayed for God to help you spiritually and felt better afterwards? If you believe in God, isn't praying to him and feeling better afterwards a good thing? Jesus Christ taught his disciples to love God and each other; and to believe in Truth and compassion, and not hypocracy, fear, greed, envy, etc.
Flipper gave you good advice, " Just enjoy yourself as an authentic human and be good to others you love - friends and others - your answers will come from within you and acceptance of all that YOU are in your personal experience and journey called life. "
Life is not black or white as you learned from the WTBTS. There can be more than two perspectives about a tragedy. I feel that 911 was a tragedy, but I was also amazed by how many people came together to help those who were adversely affected by 911 and many people seemed to treat other people better. People behaved more caring for about 2 months before they started to fall back into there old ways. But, for 2 months something good came out of something tragic.
Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,
Robert
