Saturday, March 23, 2013

God Does Not Protect the Innocent

Recently there were stories in the news of a woman babysitting for a child put that child in cold bath water and set the child outside in the cold weather. The child's body temperature was around 87 degrees. Another story was of a couple who punished their child by putting him in an oven. But Christians continue to groupthink that God is in control and will answer their prayers for safety, health and comforts. Folks around here are "rooting for Reagan." Why would God select Reagan out of the thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of children who die each day of sickness, ill treatment of the people around them? If God is not going to protect the innocent of his creation he will not protect anyone. Christians also believe God knew those children were going to be tortured and still caused them to be born. Did God cause or let? As with those children and thousands like them God will let bad things happen to Christians whose prayers land on deaf ears.

 

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