Someone pulls over with a flat tire; immediately after, there is a pileup of cars. Was it the hand of God that popped his tire and saved him? What of those people in the crash? Was it His plan to injure/kill them? If everything happens for a reason, why was that man saved, and the others scorned? Is that man better than the others, in God's eyes? Isn't that un-Christian?
2006-09-25 11:18:59 · 20 answers · asked by Aaron 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
-Who said everything happens for a reason?
An insipid number of people have said this for other questions, citing such coincidences as proof of the existence of God. These are the people at which my question was aimed.
2006-09-25 11:28:47 · update #1
I will award the best answer to the best-written response, regardless of its alignment with my own views (or at least I'll try to)
2006-09-25 11:35:08 · update #2
God puts limits on His power..for example, He will not do anything evil...he will not abandon or override the natural laws he has set in place.
For instance, people will say it was God's will if a baby falls out of a window and dies...no that is not God's will for this dear child to die; however, He does not suspend the natural law of gravity He put in place.
Now it may happen that God will say to someone "look up" and the person will see the baby and run over and catch them..sometimes things like that happen.
Something God may save one person by an occurrence and not another, but we know that all things work for good to those that love God and are fitting in His plan
..it's just that we don't understand everything right now but I think we will someday. God is not unfair though even though sometimes it seems He is...much of the bad things that happen are not because of God's will but due to the free will of man..we are hurt by the actions and free will of others..such as a company that leaks dangerous chemicals into the environment to save money by using their free will and that act causes another person's cancer..this is a consequence of both free will and the natural law that some chemicals are carcinogenic.
2006-09-25 11:21:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Ok so the tire popped out. Yes, that person was not suppose to die. At least not on that day. That person still had more to accomplish in life.
Everyone has a purpose in life. Some fill their purpose by the way they die. Maybe the person who died had a matching organ for someone else who will go on to save 1000's of lives by becoming a firefighter or something.
Everyone has a purpose, just like everything happens for a reason. It's not for anyone to decide whats right or wrong with that picture but accept it and move on.
Remember, even you have a purpose and it's time to get back to living your life. Or was it to ask this question and many more like it?
We will always be wondering why this and why that. God gave us brains. Isn't it great that we use them!
Happy questioning!!!
2006-09-25 11:27:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, rubber I think is not in god's jurisdiction. A tire can pop any time its not made of adamant. Those people in the crash were probably thinking "man I hope I don't get into a crash today". The world works on a balance of truth and irony. I don't know I'm not a believer of those kinds of things. I can guess he is better because he survived.
2006-09-25 11:25:59 · answer #3 · answered by MK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To every thing there is a season.......
A time to live and a time to die.
If it isn't your time to die and you still have a use, purpose and a job to do than you will be steered from the path of harm.
Look at 9/11.
Of the more than 10,000 people that should have been in those towers and died that day only about 3,000 were there that died.
The rest all had "something" happen that delayed their arrival or prevented them from being there at all.
I'm sure God got as many out as He could.....that would listen to Him.
Is it His fault people don't listen to Him?
No!
It's not un-Christian at all to acknowledge the hand of God in our lives.
That just shows we are listening to Him.
The real question is, "Why weren't everyone else listening to Him also?"
2006-09-25 11:38:17 · answer #4 · answered by sworddove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I would think that the man that was saved and the others died, the others were better because now they are in a better place unlike the man that lived. but things do happen for a reason maybe God has a bigger plan for them in heaven then on earth. It was their time to go home. and for the man that lived it could be that he needs to straighten up or has saved so he can help others in spec. occasions.
2006-09-25 12:07:47 · answer #5 · answered by kimber g 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We live in a fallen world. There are no car accidents in heaven. Evil was let loose in this world and in our lifetime we get to see it at its worst and decide for ourselves ... good or evil. There is no happy medium. [no pun intended] We cannot mix the two. We could not learn the lesson in the garden by just being obedient to God. The whole spiritual evolution of man involves our learning the difference and deciding that obedience to God is the best way to go. Paradise will be restored when Saten is destroyed and we have learned that good must replace evil or evil must replace good . The two cannot coexist peacefully.
2006-09-25 11:26:38 · answer #6 · answered by cathyhewed1946 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We cannot always figure out what God's plan or reasons are. We just have to trust that he knows better than we do. Sometimes, seemingly small things have big consequences in the end.
Having something seemingly bad happen is not necessarily scorn from God. Sometimes He uses these things to teach us something, lead us somewhere, etc.
2006-09-25 11:27:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everything doesn't happen for a reason. Shi t just happens. It was a bit of luck for the guy with the tire that could just as easily have happened to someone else. There is no god. Surely you can see that.
2006-09-25 11:21:13 · answer #8 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who said everything happens for a reason? The bible doesn't say that at all. Things happen, period. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you can appropriate this promise of God: that He works all things for good, for those who love Him, and are called according to His purpose.
2006-09-25 11:23:43 · answer #9 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man unfortunately does these things to himself and others. God doesn't blow tires or fly planes into buildings - humans to that - intentionally and non intentionally. We choose to not replace worn tires. We choose to rubber neck at accidents. We do this to ourselves and God grieves right along with us. I do believe that God does watch out for us though by keeping us from harms way if he needs us here on earth to carry out his will in our lives. Sometimes we full fill his need for us and when our man made choices bring death - he opens his arms wide to receive us - if we chose him when we were living.
2006-09-25 11:24:37 · answer #10 · answered by Hebrews 11 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋