Monday, 21 May 2018

Grenfell tower disaster - one year on 14th June 2017 PT 1

Heaven was weeping on that awful day last year.
God's heart was broken by the behaviour of all who allowed things to be done, which put people in danger. There was not one group responsible but many different things came together on that firelit night to kill 71 or 72 people, none of whom did anything wrong to be in that position.

The suffering of families and friends of all those people cannot be measured in any compassionate
 way, because any explanation would not be able to fully account for all the reason's that the fire happened. It would not account for the lack of safety or the absolute danger in which residents were placed due to ignorance and lack of care.

Using cheaper materials that should never have been on the walls of that tower in the first place.

A family who lost a baby who was healthy in the womb, but because of that night, died.

There were people shouting about the issues but fools who should have known better, refused to listen, refused to admit there was anything they did to cause the possibility of anything untoward to happen. While they did not start the fire, the choices they made previously caused it to burn harder and longer fuelled by flammable materials.

The lives of many people was taken on that night and families lost loved ones who had no chance of escape, in the middle of a toxic inferno.

The suffering of all was felt by any decent human being up and down the country, and the theology of suffering is not that God did or even that he allowed it. There is a theology of suffering that says that God cares for his children - ALL HIS CHILDREN.
BOTH THOSE WHO SUFFER BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED AND THOSE WHO MADE DECISIONS BASED ON WRONG ASSUMPTIONS OR BECAUSE OF MONEY ISSUES LIKE GREED OR LACK OF CARE. THE MOST POMPOUS ATTITUDES ARE OFTEN DAMAGING TO THOSE NOT PROTECTED BY RULES. 

Wednesday, 21 February 2018

Why is the OLD TESATAMENT DISLIKED TODAY????? PART 1

  So often people use the old testament of the bible as a reason for disliking God. But now in the era I am living things that happened then have happened many times, war has been continuous around the world. People often give the reason for not wanting to believe in God because he allowed any one of many hundreds of things to happen, therefore how could he be a loving kind God.
There have been at least 4 genocides, and others that the definition is not certain yet.
These people presume certain things, because they do not understand who or what God is and how he set up the world to be. God made Adam and Eve equal sharing the paradise of Eden, but we changed that by choosing to do our own thing, and this is effectively what SIN is.
The Choice to do our own thing, ignoring God, ignoring his love ignoring his care, his loneliness as the one who created Human life and all species on the face of the earth.

This choosing to do as we want was part of the free will he created us with, so considering these things, we have no right to BLAME GOD for the messiness we find ourselves in, because generation upon generation has managed to mess things up quite well on each ones watch. So  why should he be required to clear things up stop things happening. Go against the free will every person should have.

There is a saying you made your bed, now lie in it, BUT the Most Beautiful thing is that he (God) chose to reveal his son in flesh to die for us on a cross, so that we could FREELY CHOOSE to say YES to God and learn to live the life that was originally meant way back in time before Adam and Eve chose to go their own way. This is the biggest gift of all. Freely given and available to every human being on this planet.

So disliking what God has or has not done, is not really the issue. The real truth is that people think they know better and are cynical, because of bad experiences or what they perceive the Christian World to be in its many forms. Yes, there have been bad things going on within many denominations.
BUT SO many people of science and art in the past had a faith and knowledge of God that allowed science to progress, and God as the Greatest Scientist and Inventor of all has been sending down technology ideas for us to receive, probably forever. Eternity would be very boring if he did not have anything to do.