Greatest Storm in History Coming Today

by Amazing1914 97 Replies latest jw friends

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  Amazing1914

  Hurricane Katrina is heading for New Orleans, LA, and will hit it by this afternoon. It is the largest hurricane known in history. The entire storm range covers more than 50% of the Gulf of Mexico. The storm is expected to flood the entire city of New Orleans and areas beyond. People are evacuating in droves. The storm will undoubtedly kill people before it is over.

  God created our planet and its weather systems, which include hurricanes. These ferocious storms are so bad and intense that they can kill massive numbers of people. Only in modern history have human weather forcasts been able to help save many people from death.

  We object to human wars, and in particular to Christians participating in war. The reason is that Christians should not kill, even if the war seems justified. I have to include police actions in such so-called just wars. Explain, then, why we Chrstians condone our God killing hundreds, thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of people from earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, lightening, tsunamis, volcanos, floods, fires, and the ocassional astroid-comet hitting the earth?

  We cannot make excuses. God designed and created these forces and systems. God has the power to mitigate their effects, to control them, make them less severe, or even end them. Therefore, he is clearly and completely responsible for them and what happens to us because of these forces. Were a human to cause such a force, such as a fire that killed people, he/she would be sent to prison or, in some places, executed for such criminal acts.

  Why do we let God off of the hook? Why can he get by with mass murder, and not be called into account? Why does our God instruct us as Christians not to kill, but he himself, continues to kill thousands of people each year? Is there a reasonable explanation, or is there something wrong with our picture of God and our interpretation of his will for us? See the Hurricane Tracker of present and past hurricanes. It is very interesting how they work: Click here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7845030 Jim W.
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  talesin

  Agreed. One of the reasons I cannot comprehend a 'loving god'.

  t
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  Scully

  Maybe God is meting out justice against New Orleans for all those years of depraved Mardi-Gras-ing. Kind of like a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah. Could Las Vegas be next on God's agenda?

  I'm kidding.
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  DanTheMan

  I wish I could believe in a loving God who created Earth and created human beings "in his image" as part of a Divine Plan of the Ages. And that there is some "reason" for natural disasters, diseases, and the like. But as time goes on I'm increasingly convinced that there is no reason. Things just are. The universe and our existence in it are both irrational and absurd.

  Dan, I-will-NEVER-bring-children-into-this-world class
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  Qcmbr

  Of course God could step in and stop everything bad happening in fact - why have anything bad happen ever - if that's what you want let's see what else your idea of a loving God should step in for:
  
  1/ OOh you mustn't date that man - he's actually far better suited for lady y - I've got you matched with the perfect partner Mr z.
  2/ I've cancelled radiation of the harmful kind from the sun - no suntans but no sun induced melanoma.
  3/ Rainfall is now moderated to fall at 3.oo am every morning in a light non-offensive drizzle designed to avoid any nasty surges of water - by the way its also heated so you won't get a cold.
  4/ All dangerous dips, crevices, sudden drops from cliffs etc.. have been removed and the earth flattened to reduce the accidental damage you might get by falling over - wouldn't want you to sue me.
  5/ All animals that have even the slightest chance of dangering human life have been removed or altered. Horses are now a regulation 3 feet high and travel at half their previous speed to reduce falling.
  6/ All animals no longer consume any products enjoyed by humans - this has removed the risk of famine and for good measure wherever there is even a hint of some child being even slightly malnourished I've created a new hunger pheremone that causes migrating chickens to gather into that vicinity and lay pre cooked and deshelled eggs into the mouths of said infant.
  7/ Disease is officially banished - no colds, flu, measles or any other nasty bugs - all gone.
  8/ No car driving allowed. Movement is to be at the optimally safe speed of 3 miles per hour.
  9/ Lightning is required to fix nitrogen into the soil but it is now repelled by human contact so removing fatal lightning bolt strikes(except in the case of gross blasphemy in which case I'll fry your tush)
  10/ Friendships will now be controlled to avoid any unnecessary unhappiness and opportunities for deceit, backstabbing, gossip or anything that my in any way lead to you thinking that I don't love you because something I made hurts you.
  11/ When you kick Me out of your lives, out of your society and out of your belief systems I'll still maintain eveything and I'll still believe in you.
  
  
  ..right enough of that drivel.
  
  God made the miracle of children being born, rainbows after rain, triumph over adversity, the capacity for love as well as the capacity for hate, the ability to choose, a world of danger and excitement, He reminds us daily that no matter how clever we get we aren't all powerful and that having a sense of our fragility makes this life precious and beautiful. To top it all off He also said that everyone had a time alloted to them here on this earth before we could go home, this world isn't the goal, it isn't meant to be our final destination. If you asked those who died after the event (assuming you have a roving reporter in heaven) the vast majority of departed would not swop the wonders of the next life to return to the school that is this one.
  
  Point 11 is the only valid point above if you didn't get it.
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  aniron

  Considering that lately science seems to be blaming any unusual weather on "Global warming" caused by man.

  Maybe God is just letting us pay the price for what we have done to the earth.
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  Gill

  Sadly, there is no good without bad.

  There is no right without wrong.

  There is no death without life

  There is no positive without negative.

  Maybe it's all just the way it is because it has to be that way.

  Gill...still trying to figure out why, herself.
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  talesin

  qcmbr

  Well, that just doesn't cut it for me. Too many children being raped and tortured ... nope, your sarcasm is lost on me. I can't imagine a 'loving father' allowing such crimes against children, merely because he wants to 'test our loyalty' to him. I always hated the story of Job for that reason.

  tal
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  I quit!

  As humans we have a very short life span and very limited view of the universe and eternity so it is easy for us to believe that there is a God or that there isn't a god. Or that because of the bad things we see God must be indifferent or evil. Others draw the conclusion that God is good. It is kind of like the tale of the blind men and the elephant each feeling a different part comes to a different conclusion of what the elephant looks like.
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  Elsewhere

  I've been watching the evacuation on the news. They keep showing these huge five lane highways that are packed... but only on one side. If the local officials were smart they would direct traffic so that people could use both the north and south bound lanes to go north. Anyone who needs to go south can use one reserved lane. This would give the north bound traffic nine lanes to use.