Here's a funny little story of mine that happened today while out collecting Christmas trees. To start off, my Boy Scout troop, a while after Christmas, goes around and collects up the Christmas trees people want to recycle. Well, while we were driving along down the subdivision, I was ridding the trailer, sitting on the side rail. There were no side walls to the trailer, just a back. Anyways, I'm sitting there discussing a religious topic with my friend. One of the things I said was "I know you believe in god, but I don't". A few seconds later, we hit a bump that made me lose my balance. I fall backwards and reach out for the limb of one of the trees. I grab one close to the base of one. So now I'm sitting with one leg on the railing, my other being dragged on the road, and hands on the branches. "You alright?" he asks me. I tell him I'm fine just as we hit another bump. The foot on the railing slips. So now my hands are around the base of the trunk of a tree while everything below my
2007-01-06 09:07:36 · 11 answers · asked by Ghost Wolf 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
chest is being dragged on the pavement at a steady 20 miles per hour. Can you just imagine that; hanging off the side of a trailer full of tress going down the road? My friend yells up to the driver to slow down. When we come to a stop, I stand up and ecstatic about the event. I get back in the trailer, making sure I’m secure this time, and my friend tells me, “Heh-heh, god punished you for making fun of him”.
And that’s how god shoved me off a trailer for not believing in him…
And for the sake of not being reported, what do you think of my story?
2007-01-06 09:08:02 · update #1
I'd say you were lucky that you didn't get badly hurt or killed. God didn't shove you off for saying you didn't believe in Him, but if you want to interpret it that way, I suppose you can. Who knows? It might even make a believer of you!!!
First of all, you have no business riding in an open-ended trailer. That's an offense where I live, as it is dangerous. Where I live, you're not even allowed to ride in the back of a pickup truck unless it has a topper on it.
2007-01-06 09:13:30 · answer #1 · answered by gldjns 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God doesn't set up accidents for you to believe. If you interpret an event with God in mind and it makes you believe, well, OK, but God doesn't hurt people to make them believe.
I think it was seriously stupid of you to be in the back of the truck where you could fall off. There are sooooo many horrible accidents where people are hurt by riding around in/on vehicles and aren't tethered down somehow. You're lucky you didn't get hurt more!
You should never pull a stupid stunt like that again...luck won't always save you!
2007-01-06 17:12:39 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
So do you believe now? Perhaps you were just in a precarious position in the first place and God didn't bump you off. It would be more like God to have saved you from losing a leg or being really hurt. Give thanks to Him anyway.
2007-01-06 17:14:07 · answer #3 · answered by angel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a punishment but an attention getter. You did not get hurt other then being afraid. God loves to get our attention in unique ways like this. If you were injured you might have a vaild complaint but God would not do that to you.
2007-01-06 17:13:02 · answer #4 · answered by mike g 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
EVEN TOUGH I BELIEVE IN GOD, HE DOES HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR AND I'M GLAD YOU WERE NOT HURT.
SO WHO WAS WATCHING OVER YOU WHILE THE TRUCK WAS IN MOTION?
AND WHO DETERMINED THAT THE EXACT CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD BE SUCH THAT YOU WERE NOT ULTIMATE HURT?
TIME AND CHANCE HAPPEN TO ALL MEN, AND EVEN THOUGH GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS HE DID KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR YOU ON THIS OCCASION.
MAYBE YOUR FRIEND HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS OUTCOME? GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS.
2007-01-06 17:25:16 · answer #5 · answered by Dr. Albert, DDS, (USA) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im glad youre ok, btw the christian God is a representative of pure evil. May you never go that way!
2007-01-06 17:15:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is such a spoiled little rude bully--I'd blame parents except he hasn't got any
2007-01-06 17:14:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No he didn't I just saw him about to receive pleasure.
2007-01-06 17:14:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wait 'til you see what I do to you next.
2007-01-06 17:09:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Ha ha, I thought it was funny! =)
2007-01-06 17:12:10 · answer #10 · answered by *~SoL~ * Pashaa del Ñuñcaa. 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋