Dehler, Bernie wrote:
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> I think McGrath got caught on one issue... if a little girl is saved
> in a huge tragedy, did God do it? He seems to say both yes and no.
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> http://www.astroligion.com/sciligious_posts/2007/12/mcgrath-intervi.html
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Maybe the answer IS both yes and no. Isn't that what paradox is all
about? Who inflicted suffering on Job. Satan did it. But he did it
with God's permission. But some natural explanations are also given
--- (such as the windstorm blowing down the house & killing his sons, I
believe). We're not given any neat delineation in Scriptures about
whodunnit. And those who wish to "protect" God from any culpability
in their own eyes, have much they will be forced to ignore in
Scripture. ... and I will bring their calamity from every side of
them, says Yahweh. (from Jer. 49:2) And yet Satan is implicated, and
we also are implicated --- and perhaps even nature itself when you read
through the rest of Scriptures.
The Lord will do what He will. And any little girl saved in one
tragedy will eventually die in the next one. Our job is to mourn or
rejoice as the occasion calls with those bereaved or relieved in each
season. ...and to always stop short of cursing God, though some
fist-shaking doesn't seem to be precluded.
--Merv
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