2007-03-26 04:52:12 · 16 answers · asked by Murazor 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
From a former-christian perspective: YES
Explaining away the unexplainable with something as trite as "we can't know god's plan" is just silly. Maybe most of the population needs to evolve just a wee bit more to understand that.
It's perfectly okay to say "hey, that doesn't make sense!" and then actually research what might be a scientific answer.
C'mon, people, we're advancing enough that we don't need to make up any more supernatural fairy tales to explain the lightning and thunder!
2007-03-26 06:10:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I really don't understand much about engineering either so when I look at a skyscraper and try to figure out how it holds up in the middle of a hurricane the only answer I can come up with is mysterious ways.
Now that doesn't mean that there is no answer. I just don't know it. But somebody out there does.
"God's" mysterious ways are not mysterious, many people just don't know them. Give me a pencil and some paper and I'll figure them out for ya.
2007-03-26 11:57:33 · answer #2 · answered by NONAME 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are some things about God that we don't understand, but his Word was given to us so that we could gain knowledge of his purposes for our lives. The things that I have seen that seem "mysterious" to the general religious public are mostly mis-conceptions that have come about because of men's doctrines and mis-interpretations, and not from a clear understanding of God's Word. God gave us his Word because...
1 Timothy 2: 3 & 4: "This is fine and acceptable in the sight of our Savior, God, 4Â whose will is that all sorts of men should be saved and come to an accurate knowledge of truth."
2007-03-26 12:03:10 · answer #3 · answered by wannaknow 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Exactly! They admit they can't explain why things happen, and yet they're sure of the existence of some mysterious being who makes them happen. Oh yeah......
They're also clueless about unbelievers in general, assuming we must have no sense of wonder about the universe and that we must be morally depraved as well. Bunch of patronizing ignoramuses, most of them.
2007-03-26 12:04:16 · answer #4 · answered by hznfrst 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
We are, in fact, mostly clueless into how and why God does what God does and how. The small glimpses we do have into His mind would be akin to trying to scratch a diamond with a feather.
2007-03-26 11:56:49 · answer #5 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No. We say that because of how GOD does work. You should read the bible so you don't sound so goofy all your life. Thank you and may GOD come soon to right the wrongs that have been done on this earth.
2007-03-26 11:57:12 · answer #6 · answered by cookie 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
no God is a all knowing GOD we dont always know the answer but he dose .he works in ways as the flesh cant coprehend but we are not cluless
2007-03-26 12:00:58 · answer #7 · answered by early 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No
Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
2007-03-26 11:55:45 · answer #8 · answered by Dr. Linder 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Ding ding ding, and tell him what he's won Michael.
That is basically what it comes down to. Here is how I look at it:
"God works in mysterious ways" = "Sh*t Happens"
2007-03-26 11:58:03 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
No, what I mean when I say that is that only God knows the future so He puts things in place for His glory.
2007-03-26 11:56:56 · answer #10 · answered by Laura D 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋