Musings on the Tough Life Questions

   <Too long to read? Here is the Tldr > God:  I have established that I can do good and evil, form light and create darkness, injure and heal, bring about calamity and restoration, but having all crisis resolve itself in me (and I know I have not yet told you how).  Why do you have still this confused look on your face? Man: I just want to know why don't You just stop evil when it happens, why don't You stop rapes, killings in it's tracks.  It seems that you never do that.  Look at happened at Aurora, Colorado , several years ago, for example  I am sure you could have stopped James Holmes in his tracks before he killed all those people in the movie theatre.  Have you ever stopped a crime from happening, before hand?  God:  Yes I have.  Haven't you read about Abimelech, whom you would consider a heather, where I stopped him from sleeping with Abraham's wife? I took credit for that [Gen 20:6].  I appeared to Him in ...

<Too long to read? Here is the tldr > Note this was written fours years ago, right after the Aurora, Colorado Tragedy... Man: So God why do you allow violence, suffering, disasters and crisis? Enough is Enough. Could you not have stopped what happened at Aurora, Colorado? Could you not have stopped the massacre before it happened? Why allow this senseless killing? Where were you? God: I appreciate your questions, and your search for answers especially in this time of grief. There is no disaster that occurs that I am not aware of . I am intimately aware of the invisible threads of actions and inactions, thoughts and motives that have lead to this. I am painfully aware of the all the death, carnage, and tragic effects on all the victims, their families and on the nation as a whole. When a lion roars in hunger and kills to be fed, don’t I know about it? When a disaster strikes a city don’t I know about it. I not only know about it but indeed I ...