I was reading up on the guy who killed five girls in an amish schoolhouse. The title of it was "PA Shooter Angry at God." You can check out the article here.
We've been talking about the wrath of God for the past few days. At church, then at cg last night. I don't understand His version of wrath. I can read about it and wonder, but thankfully, due to Christ dying on the cross for me, I'll never experience it. Yay propitiation! Now His discipline, yes, that I experience but that's another blog entirely...
This guy was mad, maybe even wrathful, at God because his infant daughter died. Yes, that is sad. I can't imagine losing a child. However, that doesn't warrant going to a school, taking children hostage, then shooting them and then yourself. And blaming God for your actions. I don't think so. It's called free will. You do want you want to do. I do want I want to do. We are given the choice to make those decisions and it frankly irritates me that when people do evil, they throw God's name in it to somehow justify it. Nuh-uh. Have the courage to own up to your actions and motives...
And now I'm stepping off my soapbox...
We've been talking about the wrath of God for the past few days. At church, then at cg last night. I don't understand His version of wrath. I can read about it and wonder, but thankfully, due to Christ dying on the cross for me, I'll never experience it. Yay propitiation! Now His discipline, yes, that I experience but that's another blog entirely...
This guy was mad, maybe even wrathful, at God because his infant daughter died. Yes, that is sad. I can't imagine losing a child. However, that doesn't warrant going to a school, taking children hostage, then shooting them and then yourself. And blaming God for your actions. I don't think so. It's called free will. You do want you want to do. I do want I want to do. We are given the choice to make those decisions and it frankly irritates me that when people do evil, they throw God's name in it to somehow justify it. Nuh-uh. Have the courage to own up to your actions and motives...
And now I'm stepping off my soapbox...
1 comment:
move over a little bit - i need some room up there on your soapbox...
hear, hear! the world could use a little less blaming and a whole lot more willingness to take responsibility for our actions... only then will grace actually overflow from our lives.
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