Do you suppose the people of Minneapolis/St. Paul were as depraved as those souls lost in New Orleans?
What was the name of the evangelist who said the hurricane was God's punishment for the depravity of the people living in New Orleans?
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2007-08-02 14:05:42 · 30 answers · asked by Hatikvah 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God did not collapse the bridge, the bible says it rain,s on the just and the unjust, thing,s just happen.
2007-08-02 14:10:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is Very Responsible, But This Was Humans Made, So Humans Must Responsible, God Can Make Any Situation Bad To Be Good, May Be Someone in This Accident Can Say, This Accident i Can Feel Miracle, God Help Me, Then The Others May Be Can Feel Others Things, That God Help Them, But To People Who Die, There Was Plans We Do Not Know, May Be To Test Their Family, Or May Be This People Was in Problem, God Can Help With Any Situation, Even We Must Die, Oo Yah Jesus Die Too To Help Us. Best Regards, EddyLim777@yahoo.com.sg
2007-08-03 11:47:31 · answer #2 · answered by eddylim777 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that God is real, since He is all that is, eternally. Everything else is transient and that which is transient is not of God. But neither is it of something not-God, for there is nothing that is not God, since God is all.
To want to blame someone or something for this "terrible disaster" involves a judgment that death is real and someone must be guilty of "causing" it. In my mind, both the judgment and the need to blame is nothing other than a manifestation of fearful thoughts. The fear of death, the empowerment of death, is an acting out of the denial of God and life after death. It assumes that if there is an "after" death, that must be either a bad state or a very different state. What if it is neither? What if the mind/soul remain with their same cloudy beliefs that they had before "death", but only the body is gone? What then remains to "do", other than to clear the cloudy mind?
If one believes that God is all, and that we, as His "children", are part of that all, then it is not possible logically to believe that the death of anyone is real. It is only a change of state, a change in physical perception, but the mind that is one with God remains one with God, regardless of its state of cloudiness. (Otherwise, God would not be "all")
Who is responsible for the dramas, the calamities that are in books, movies, and TV? This is the same question as who is responsible for the bridge collapsing. There is always someone to pin it on in a drama. It helps us to point fingers so that we don't have to deal with what is going on in our own minds and personal dramas. So we look for a culprit, not realizing that every single bit of the drama that makes up our individual and cumulative worlds is configured by our own minds.
In my opinion, it is a waste of time to look for a culprit. We would be better off noticing and forgiving ourselves for all the wasted thoughts we have about not getting things right in our own lives. People who do THAT can then be free to channel the will they share with God into true competencey within the world, and smooth the path so that fearful events don't hold such a magnetic attraction, and therefore just plain don't happen anymore.
2007-08-03 00:37:58 · answer #3 · answered by ggazcamper 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not directly. I believe accidents happen and this was an accident. I do believe, though, that the people that died, it was their time. And this is part of God's plan. Not exactly the bridge.What I am saying is: Everyone dies when it's their time. Sometimes, there are accidents that cause it. And though the accidents may be a human flaw, the deaths, aren't, because only people whose mission on earth have ended die in accidents, you know? I truly believe that a person only dies when it's their time (except for suicide). So, if there are fatalities in an accident, it's because those people's mission here have ended! I'm finding it hard to explain what I mean. I hope people can understand, though!
2007-08-02 21:13:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the bridge collapsed because someone was greedy, someone else was a lazy bum at work, some other person was jealous of someone else, and all that sinned culminated in the bridge falling down because no one did the right thing. The bridge didn't get repaired when it should have been.
Never try to blame God for what He didn't do. Those people sinned, not God.
2007-08-02 21:08:38 · answer #5 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God allows tragedy to happen. This was a man-made accident. How can we blame God for this? Should he have reached down and stopped it? Should he reach down and stop every tragedy from happening? If he did that, how would we grow, experience trials, and learn from those trials? Bad things happen to everyone at some point in their lives. We pick up and move on. Struggles and sorrows make us better people, stronger people. I believe that's why God lets these things happen and doesn't intervene.
2007-08-02 21:11:09 · answer #6 · answered by Cat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
These are just more examples of God being falsely accused of natural events.
A bridge doesn't last forever. Man made the crappy bridge!
A hurricane is mother nature's baby. Man made the crappy levee, not God!
Why do all of you blame God for everything bad. When he has nothing to do with God less men building a crappy bridge and levee:). Man is at fault for both!
Give God a break, all of you always ask HIM for one:)
2007-08-02 21:15:50 · answer #7 · answered by Christanti 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that God let it happen, no, He wasn't the one to build it, but He made the people that did.
God does and lets everything happen for a reason, we might not be able to understand or see the reason right NOW, but there is one.
It might just be the fact that he wants to learn how to appreciate and love the ones around us, because we don't know how long we do have with them.
2007-08-02 21:26:23 · answer #8 · answered by raysgirl15 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is only one who can answer that and that is God Himself !!!
However in the book EYE TO EYE a book authored by Bill Koenig makes a strong case for America's decisions as it relates to Israel and US's decisions about partitioning that country. Taking his book as a whole where he lists the destructive weather patterns and how they coorelate to negative decisions made against Israel its like God Himself
on His throne is trying to tell us HANDS OFF ISRAEL because now more than ever in history God is going protect Israel and keep everyone of His promises that He has made to Israel
2007-08-02 23:05:05 · answer #9 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well let's see. What is that old expression? If the shoe fits wear it!
If God is the author of "all things" then yes God is responsible.
Even God can't have it both ways. That would a violation of cosmic logic. And we all know God never makes mistakes, Right?
2007-08-02 21:14:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, man was.
Man neglected that bridge.
If that bridge had been PERFECT and collapsed for no reason one can possibly summise God did it.
But since it was imperfect since 1990 (remember that when you get into an airplane, elevator or go across a bridge) and MAN did next to nothing to fix it, MAN is totally responsbile.
Minnesota is responsible.
2007-08-02 21:09:21 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋