Did God Cause This To Happen?
I am an atheist and I had no intentions of celebrating Easter Sunday. However, since I had some work around the home place to do such as trenching in a water line, I rented a trenching machine from the local equipment rental on Saturday and decide to use Easter morning to plow the water pipe in.
As it happened, I started the water line run next to my chain link gate when the digger caught a tree root throwing the digger into the fence tearing down the gate.
While I was removing the digger from the fence, a neighbor stopped by on his way home form church and told me that God does not approve of working on the Lord’s Day (especially Easter) and God jammed the digger into the fence to stop me.
I let him express his view, but told him I didn’t agree with him or Christianity and after a few short exchanges, he left. I would have told him a lot more, but, hey, he’s my neighbor. (I was only stopped long enough to remove the fence from the digger and then finished the running the water line.)
So what do you think?
It is my honest conviction that Christianity functions by correctly defining random events to re-enforce a positive supernatural functioning view of God. (I’m convinced my neighbor saw an opportunity to re-enforce his view of God when he came upon me this Easter Sunday.)
Thus, if an event is interpreted correctly, it builds up or re-enforces a believers view that God is in control and does indeed functions in the world. However, if a wrong interpretation is applied to an event, it hurts the faith of the believer. To many of these bad or poor interpretations can be detrimental to one’s Christian faith(Thus the main function of the Sunday morning sermon).
I find most Christian believers have a spiritual tool box full of just the right interpretations to keep God on his throne and in a positive spotlight. Some of which are:
A. God knows the total picture.
B. God lets things happen to teach people a lesson.
C. God is in control, but wants us to use our Free Will.
D. Or, if all else fails: Satan causes things to hurt people in his war against God.
As it happened, I started the water line run next to my chain link gate when the digger caught a tree root throwing the digger into the fence tearing down the gate.
While I was removing the digger from the fence, a neighbor stopped by on his way home form church and told me that God does not approve of working on the Lord’s Day (especially Easter) and God jammed the digger into the fence to stop me.
I let him express his view, but told him I didn’t agree with him or Christianity and after a few short exchanges, he left. I would have told him a lot more, but, hey, he’s my neighbor. (I was only stopped long enough to remove the fence from the digger and then finished the running the water line.)
So what do you think?
It is my honest conviction that Christianity functions by correctly defining random events to re-enforce a positive supernatural functioning view of God. (I’m convinced my neighbor saw an opportunity to re-enforce his view of God when he came upon me this Easter Sunday.)
Thus, if an event is interpreted correctly, it builds up or re-enforces a believers view that God is in control and does indeed functions in the world. However, if a wrong interpretation is applied to an event, it hurts the faith of the believer. To many of these bad or poor interpretations can be detrimental to one’s Christian faith(Thus the main function of the Sunday morning sermon).
I find most Christian believers have a spiritual tool box full of just the right interpretations to keep God on his throne and in a positive spotlight. Some of which are:
A. God knows the total picture.
B. God lets things happen to teach people a lesson.
C. God is in control, but wants us to use our Free Will.
D. Or, if all else fails: Satan causes things to hurt people in his war against God.