tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503958.post2561975683264099951..comments2023-03-25T09:12:38.039-05:00Comments on Bad Commands and Filenames: SQLFunkateerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17237309391300543602noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503958.post-38634644644593089512008-03-06T16:07:00.000-06:002008-03-06T16:07:00.000-06:00Thanks all, not to sound like a pompous arse but I...Thanks all, not to sound like a pompous arse but I do appreciate the comments, I wavered in posting these thoughts because #1 they sounded much more aggressive than I intended, and #2 I wasn't sure if I was just full of it. <BR/><BR/>My experience with tragedy has been mostly 2nd hand, like a medic in a battlefield hospital does not directly experience combat but is around those who have.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps the one thing that bothers me the most, and motivated this post, is witnessing a seed or two of what I would deem to be dangerous doctrines. A person expresses bewilderment that something so terrible could happen to someone who was doing everything right and following God. It is an understandable reaction, but I wonder if the opposite, somewhat more overtly dangerous component ever enters those people's thoughts, consciously or subconsciously...the thought that when something goes wrong in someone's life, it is the result of some hidden sin. I've never seen that taught or spread at our church (personally, at least), which is cool, but I have heard of scenarios like this among friends and extended families, where people seriously believe a tragedy is punishment for sin. Job's friends were some of the first to propound that well-meaning but very, very wrong idea. The idea of victims of such a tragedy being saddled with guilt that somehow they were responsible for the tragedy because they weren't good enough, or holy enough, or what-not, that is what got the ol' rancorous tone going in the previous post. <BR/><BR/>Now back to our regularly scheduled meaningless drivel!SQLFunkateerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17237309391300543602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503958.post-90044185521082844042008-03-05T20:04:00.000-06:002008-03-05T20:04:00.000-06:00Well, Nic, I certainly agree. As one well versed i...Well, Nic, I certainly agree. As one well versed in tragedy (at least in my own mind and for a 25 year old) you have spoken well. God would certainly be quite small if I could fit his vastness in my own mind. Those who attempt to do so go, quite frankly, mad.<BR/><BR/>The approach that "Satan did it" is on the other hand definitely an oversimplification, done by those who are also, quite frankly, unfamiliar with the bible.<BR/><BR/>God is sovereign. And on the heals of a "gut-check" week I can quite simply say that God reveals himself in the hardest of times. A simple, yet biblical, response of stillness and awe is all he asks sometimes as his hand moves. <BR/><BR/>Do we trust him enough to say, "your will be done," I assume, is the question?<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your unexplainable and spiritually rational conclusion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503958.post-66547855812419141342008-03-02T22:36:00.000-06:002008-03-02T22:36:00.000-06:00uhm... imperfect "life". My bad.uhm... imperfect "life". My bad.The Angry Coderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04270349912618421934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503958.post-54317466837885965332008-03-02T22:35:00.000-06:002008-03-02T22:35:00.000-06:00That's good, and very true. "The wiles of the Dev...That's good, and very true. "The wiles of the Devil" is his trickery thrown at our minds and hearts. You totally nailed it with your sample question- "Is God good?". I guess we are never assured that we will have perfect lives as believers; just that we will have perfect peace through an imperfect live.The Angry Coderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04270349912618421934noreply@blogger.com