From: "Robert Comer" 

Nicely said Ellen!

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Bob Comer


"Ellen K."  wrote in message
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> Everything G-d does is good.  However, there is good in a revealed way
> (the crops have rain) and good in a concealed way (drought).
>
> Imagine a people who live in a jungle with no exposure to the modern
> scientific world.  They have developed some simple tools.  They eat
> plants that grow in the jungle and have also learned how to kill animals
> for meat and fur, using sharpened rocks or sticks.  Now imagine one of
> these people suddenly finds himself in the operating room of a modern
> hospital, as an observer.  When he sees the surgeon cutting the patient,
> he will think he is killing him, but in fact the surgeon is saving the
> patient's life.
>
> We are like that jungle person, and I certainly include myself.  I
> certainly don't immediately see good when I think about 9/11, but I
> trust that at some point in the future the good will be revealed.
>
> Some would already say 9/11 was good because it woke up the world to
> militant Islamism.
>
>
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:09:22 +1100, John Beckett
>  wrote in message
> :
>
>>What I don't like about the "God's plan" reasoning is
that it prevents
>>anything from ever being wrong. Did anyone here say that 9/11 was bad? How
>>could you, knowing that it's part of God's plan?
>>
>>If it ever makes sense to thank God when the crops have rain, then it also
>>makes sense to curse God when there is a drought.
>

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