JimB
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Man, Pete, is insulting your opponent your only method of debating? In another thread you accused me of calling Jesus a failure and now I am "incredibly limiting God"?.probinson said:What an incredibly limiting view of God.
Why couldn't God simply say, hey Jim, take a different route than you normally take? Or stay home today, because something bad is going to happen. Indeed, there are stories of this very thing happening on the morning of 9/11.
God has done this very thing with me. He's told me, turn here. Then I find out later that there was an accident down the road that had I not listened and turned I may well have been involved in.
No severe virus required. No forceful manipulation from the heavenlies. Just a son obeying his Father.
But, while I am tempted to blow off your insults by just not responding, I will consider the source and reply.
My example (above), as flawed as it may be, was used to illustrate a point. But then your 9/11 example is just as flawed. While some may have “heard God” and escaped the disaster, some 3,000 didn’t, and I have heard reports of people (maybe believers) who called in because of illness and didn’t go to work that morning.
God speaks to me too, Pete (you are probably surprised to hear that since you apparently have such a low opinion of me) and sometimes I even listen when He speaks. But there are times when He speaks and I (and, who knows, maybe even you) do not hear. So, if he protects me in other ways – even through an illness – it is because He is merciful.
~Jim
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