Comments on: Molding God into our image

By: Drina

Drina — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:25:18 +0000

I know, it wasn’t God’s punishment, but it was.

By: dh

dh — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:17:41 +0000

You might need to reread my previous post before this latest one.

By: dh

dh — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:16:56 +0000

It was consistent. Look at how big an area was hit. I also am consistent in that we are finite and God is infinite. All we can do is get an idea.

By: Drina

Drina — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:10:02 +0000

[I learn toward not]

[many terrible sinful areas were hit hard and hey paid a price.]

Some consistency would be nice.

By: dh

dh — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:23:10 +0000

I never said that what happened in NO was from God or not from God. I learn toward not but I do believe that partially it was in that businesses in the French Quarter had to pay a greater price than otherwise for the type of businesses they were doing. I do feel many other good people suffered and so that is what makes me lean toward not. However, many terrible sinful areas were hit hard and hey paid a price.

Also, it is not appealing to for God to judge like He did in Pharoahs day but I do believe God at times does that for His redemption. If He didn’t care Pharoah He would give him chance after chance to turn to Him. Sin is sin and until we realize the price we pay for that whether individually or collectively people will continue in the terrible path they currently on. My story of the Hell’s Angel above explains that in those particular times.

Again it is paganism to say other gods are additional ways or are part of God ways or saying certain sins are not sins thereby people get a false idea that they are on the right track when in fact they aren’t.

By: Drina

Drina — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:02:08 +0000

dh, keep in mind that while the idea of God ‘getting those gays’ or ‘punishing those prostitutes’ may sound apealing to you, it’s not the seedy side of New Orleans and Biloxi that got hit so badly. The French Quarter is already back in business. Poor, black Christian communities were the ones to suffer so horribly. What did they do to earn this type of redemptive judgement from God?

By: dh

dh — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:08:25 +0000

So it as paganism to attiribute the judgements on Pharoah as from God? I don’t think so. What is paganism to believe that God is control of everything? I would say it is paganism to think there is other ways to Christ besides Christ. That is true paganism, “having other gods besides Me.” Like Jesus said.

By: Drina

Drina — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:16:18 +0000

The compulsion to attribute every natural event to God’s judgement on someone else smacks of paganism.

By: dh

dh — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:35:55 +0000

Sorry, Drina. I misread your post. I’m glad you acknoewledge redemptive judgement. To say Pat was a total liar I just cannot say. How do we know that what happend didn’t come from God? Is it possible that it was the equivilent to Mosaic Egypt. i’m not saying it is but there seems to be something beyond coincidence. NO with Bourbon Street seems like a place a vile. There might not be a correlation but it seems nore than a coinidence. I just don’t know on this and can’t say. I do know one thing that while it is terrible in NO that “all things work together for good” and to see people come to Christ is the most important thing. WE must look at the lemonade and not the lemons. That isn’t to downplay the situation but help us to understand what is important in God’s eyes redemption of people to Himself. That isn’t sayin NO was a total redemptive act but you get the point.

By: dh

dh — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:19:52 +0000

So the situation between Pharoah and god wasn’t God reaching out His redemption to Pharoah and the Egyptian people? I agree they went totally overboard but the Bible does should the Lion of Judah as part with the Lamb of God. It is a balance.