Why do tragedies happen....

Shining One

...the answer is in Genesis.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2005/0923rita.asp
Rex

Scully

You mean it has nothing to do with "time and unforeseen occurrences"?

stillajwexelder

Scully is correct Shining One - the official WTBTS line is that it is Time and Unforseen Circumstance as the scriptures say

When I was young, before I could swim, I jumped into a pool went under and blacked out. My mom jumped in and pulled me out and saved my life.
When my daughter was young she was running toward a busy street and I ran after her and grabbed her before she got hit.
My dog tried to chase a cat by running into a street and I held the leash tight so he wouldn't get hurt.
I knew a family who's house caught fire and the father almost died trying to rescue his kids, but he got them out.
I wish God had the same interest in humans as people do for others and even for their pets.

Shining One

The Watchtower is no resource for Bible instruction. They do not worship the God of the Bible. They worship a one-dimensional, limited god who has no claim to 'divine providence'. Try reading the article completly before you respond and you might see the point.
Rex

thom

Hmm, I thought I read the whole article. It seems to me that it agrees with the WT view:
---"She’s right. People need a “consensus on the sin.” The answer is the “original sin”—we are all sinners (in Adam). We are not “innocent” as she says—we are sinners. As Pastor D. James Kennedy of Florida recently said on a national USA television broadcast about the book Why Bad Things Happen to Good People: “They don’t! There aren’t any ‘good’ people!"---
If I understood the article correctly, then if the article's view is correct, and the WT view is correct, God is cruel. He's punishing billions of people (for one man's sin) with neglect and then, according to the WT view, annihilation in the future. How sweet is that? Makes me want to bow down and thank him right here and now.

AlmostAtheist

Pastor D. James Kennedy of Florida recently said on a national USA television broadcast about the book Why Bad Things Happen to Good People: “They don’t! There aren’t any ‘good’ people!”

Eeek! Can you remember when you actually thought this way? That you and me and every person you met was "bad", and only by a lucky break (offered by the guy that decided you were bad) could you be declared "good"?

I don't like that bad things happen to good people, but I'm glad I no longer have to resort to believing everyone is bad in order to make it ok.

The article is right on several counts though, among them that when I rejected the Genesis account, the "inherited sin" bit, and the "god is using satan to prove a point" bit, I lost any excuse for god to exist and allow what he does.

Thanks for the article, BTW.

Dave

Caedes

In this case It was probably climate change caused by people

tetrapod.sapien

ya, natural disasters suck.

but the real tragedies are people like you and the governing body of jehovah's witnesses cramming their goddamn bibles down peoples throats.

(flips bird)

TS

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