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The thread about the plane crash got me thinking about the religious concept that every single event has to have some hidden meaning or purpose and we simply aren't able to grasp what that purpose might be. I'm curious about how Christians view any sort of accident, natural disaster such as a hurricane or earthquake, or any event that impacts human beings. For example, suppose you're driving down the freeway and you have a tire blowout which causes your vehicle to flip over resulting in your death. Can any Christian look at an event such as this as just a very unfortunate accident or does it really involve the intervention of God who is manipulating every single thing in nature down to the molecular level in order to pursue his master plan that we're just too stupid to understand? If you really follow through with the logic that every event has a purpose that would mean that God is busily arranging every manner of human death and suffering and making sure that the people involved are in the right place at the right time to fullfil his mysterious purpose. Is this really what Christians believe or is it possible that tragic accidents just happen under certain circumstances?
Eccl 9:11 speaks of time and chance happening to all...doesn't matter if you're rich, able bodied, wise, or skillfiul. Sometimes unforseen occurences befall us all.
What if your tire blows out and you're not in a fatal accident, you just have a flat tire. Who caused that? Does god only deal in fatal catrastrophies?
It's called syncronicities. Everything happens based on the response or action before. That's why we always have to think before we act or say something.
We are the actors in the play and everything is syncronized according to our actions, or more importantly, our intent.
The butterfly flapping it's wings across the world causing a hurricane on the other side is a good example.
There are also no accidents. Ever.
What if your tire blows out and you're not in a fatal accident, you just have a flat tire. Who caused that? Does god only deal in fatal catrastrophies?
I think that would be caused by the "Firestone" angel...they are out there to flatten good folks tires and make money for the tire manufacturers so the christian ones have more profit to give to god's kingdom.
It's called syncronicities. Everything happens based on the response or action before. That's why we always have to think before we act or say something.
We are the actors in the play and everything is syncronized according to our actions, or more importantly, our intent.
The butterfly flapping it's wings across the world causing a hurricane on the other side is a good example.
There are also no accidents. Ever.
no, but chaos. some like to call it confusion, don't they? flapsy, sort of.
it takes a little while to identify the little butterflies across the atlantic..
coming like kool aid, sort of.
A friend and coworker in Arizona had a blowout in a company truck and according to the truck driver behind him he did three complete rollovers. Luckily his injuries were relatively minor but the reason it happened is because our company was buying really cheap tires to save a little money and there were a few accidents because of that decision. I don't see the work of God in an incident like that and of course I don't believe in God anyway so that goes without saying. I was hit by a car when I was in junior high school riding one of those mopeds and could easily have been killed. As far as I'm concerned it was sheer luck and the fact that it was a Volkswagon as opposed to a firetruck. There are probably millions of accidents of one sort or another worldwide and I see no purpose or hidden meaning in any of them.
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