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Struggles by Non-Christians
It's amazing how the most horrible thing can happen
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<blockquote data-quote="SavedByGrace3" data-source="post: 76673117" data-attributes="member: 3005"><p>If I am driving a car I am controlling it.</p><p>If I let loose of the steering wheel and take my foot off the pedals, I am no longer in control. Basic logic and English. </p><p>Let me illustrate an obvious scenario.</p><p>God created a rock, a hill, gravity, and set time and the seasons in place.</p><p>The rock is embedded on the side of the hill. </p><p>Over time the seasons take place. Ice, snow, melting, water running off. All this is taking place according to the course of nature that God has put in place. </p><p>By and by the ice and snow melt. The water running down the hill dislodges the rock. The rock rolls down the hill and bonks someone on the head. We term this to be an accident. Much like when an ax head comes off its handle and kills someone. It is an accident. It was not intended. Nobody, not even God orchestrated these events. It is simple fate and circumstance occurring in time. Could God have stopped the rock or ax head in their path? Yes! Could He have prevented them from even starting on their paths? Yes, certainly. Does He? Obviously not. Look at the virtually infinite number of accidents that carry through to their unhappy result. That a benevolent and controlling God does not have His hand on the steering wheel cannot be more obvious. None of these things could or would happen if He did. We can strain at words and twist logic all we want. But God is not doing these things. The creation has a course of nature and it is rolling along according to the laws that He put into place at creation. And that creation is in a fallen/falling state. That is what is happening in the world since the fall of Adam.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SavedByGrace3, post: 76673117, member: 3005"] If I am driving a car I am controlling it. If I let loose of the steering wheel and take my foot off the pedals, I am no longer in control. Basic logic and English. Let me illustrate an obvious scenario. God created a rock, a hill, gravity, and set time and the seasons in place. The rock is embedded on the side of the hill. Over time the seasons take place. Ice, snow, melting, water running off. All this is taking place according to the course of nature that God has put in place. By and by the ice and snow melt. The water running down the hill dislodges the rock. The rock rolls down the hill and bonks someone on the head. We term this to be an accident. Much like when an ax head comes off its handle and kills someone. It is an accident. It was not intended. Nobody, not even God orchestrated these events. It is simple fate and circumstance occurring in time. Could God have stopped the rock or ax head in their path? Yes! Could He have prevented them from even starting on their paths? Yes, certainly. Does He? Obviously not. Look at the virtually infinite number of accidents that carry through to their unhappy result. That a benevolent and controlling God does not have His hand on the steering wheel cannot be more obvious. None of these things could or would happen if He did. We can strain at words and twist logic all we want. But God is not doing these things. The creation has a course of nature and it is rolling along according to the laws that He put into place at creation. And that creation is in a fallen/falling state. That is what is happening in the world since the fall of Adam. [/QUOTE]
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