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I'm interested in discussion around this article. I posted it on my FB page that is accessible to all my family, old friends, people of many kinds. I got replies and varying degrees of discussion from three Athiest friends, not a peep from a single Christian one. I think I may have offended them.
So I'm placing this thread in St. Justin Martyr's, which allows debate, and leaving it open. All I'd ask is, please respond to the topics discussed in this short article. (And of course, no flaming.)
If your God is a jerk --- it might be you (https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/09/08/god-ahole-might/)
An excerpt -
the series of massive hurricanes currently leveling large swaths of the planet—are just God trying to tell us something.
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When he (God) puts his power on display, it’s never without reason. There’s a purpose. And we may not always understand what that purpose is, but we know it’s not random and we know that weather is sent to cause us to respond to God in humility, awe and repentance.
The storms are not random, he says, they are on purpose—God’s purpose. They are intentional creations. Never mind that scores of people have been killed, hundreds of thousands left homeless, and many in these very moments enduring unimaginable fear, Kirk wants you to know that God did it to you—and well, you need to figure out why.
So I'm placing this thread in St. Justin Martyr's, which allows debate, and leaving it open. All I'd ask is, please respond to the topics discussed in this short article. (And of course, no flaming.)
If your God is a jerk --- it might be you (https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/09/08/god-ahole-might/)
An excerpt -
the series of massive hurricanes currently leveling large swaths of the planet—are just God trying to tell us something.
...
When he (God) puts his power on display, it’s never without reason. There’s a purpose. And we may not always understand what that purpose is, but we know it’s not random and we know that weather is sent to cause us to respond to God in humility, awe and repentance.
The storms are not random, he says, they are on purpose—God’s purpose. They are intentional creations. Never mind that scores of people have been killed, hundreds of thousands left homeless, and many in these very moments enduring unimaginable fear, Kirk wants you to know that God did it to you—and well, you need to figure out why.