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Jaypeeto4
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**GOD CONTROLS ALL EVENTS, WHETHER GOOD OR BAD
Nothing happens in the the universe without God willing and allowing it. This statement must he taken absolutely of everything with the exception of sin.**
I would certainly agree that nothing, absolutely nothing, occurs without
God’s foreknowledge of it, and permitting it to happen.
Even horrible things, like my dear friend at work,
who was raped (and I mean violently RAPED, not just molested) by her
dad’s best friend when she was 8 years old and was left
badly hemorrhaging in the bathtub. And her dad, in dastardliness,
had the unmitigated gall to blame HER - an 8 year old helpless child -
for his friend raping her.
But such things are horrendous, yet God permits them.
Theologians, when talking about things all happening because God “wills” them,
clarify this by distinguishing between God’s ACTIVE will (such as God ARRANGING for something to happen by direct arranging) and God’s PERMISSIVE will, by means of which, for reasons known only to him, he ALLOWS even the most HEINOUS things to happen to the most innocent and helpless people, without approving of them whatsoever.
We need to keep that distinction in mind.
And we need to PRAY LIKE CRAZY that God will protect the innocent from heinous acts.
A lot of this happens, I really believe, because we Christians don’t pray enough to beg God to intervene and prevent these things.
Blessed Jacinta Marto of Fatima, said that Mary told her that sinners are falling into hell like snowflakes falling, because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices (in union with Christ’s sacrifice) to God for them. Something to think about, for sure.
God bless,
Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
Nothing happens in the the universe without God willing and allowing it. This statement must he taken absolutely of everything with the exception of sin.**
I would certainly agree that nothing, absolutely nothing, occurs without
God’s foreknowledge of it, and permitting it to happen.
Even horrible things, like my dear friend at work,
who was raped (and I mean violently RAPED, not just molested) by her
dad’s best friend when she was 8 years old and was left
badly hemorrhaging in the bathtub. And her dad, in dastardliness,
had the unmitigated gall to blame HER - an 8 year old helpless child -
for his friend raping her.
But such things are horrendous, yet God permits them.
Theologians, when talking about things all happening because God “wills” them,
clarify this by distinguishing between God’s ACTIVE will (such as God ARRANGING for something to happen by direct arranging) and God’s PERMISSIVE will, by means of which, for reasons known only to him, he ALLOWS even the most HEINOUS things to happen to the most innocent and helpless people, without approving of them whatsoever.
We need to keep that distinction in mind.
And we need to PRAY LIKE CRAZY that God will protect the innocent from heinous acts.
A lot of this happens, I really believe, because we Christians don’t pray enough to beg God to intervene and prevent these things.
Blessed Jacinta Marto of Fatima, said that Mary told her that sinners are falling into hell like snowflakes falling, because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices (in union with Christ’s sacrifice) to God for them. Something to think about, for sure.
God bless,
Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+