Quote Originally Posted by MacG View Post
I am really trying to figure it out. I used to hold tightly that God does not make mistakes. But that does not lead to meaningful dialog out here near San Francisco. Trading positional soundbytes and pla***udes is too shallow. I at least want to dig into it a bit so I can at least show that I not an empty headed Christian. By engaging those here I am trying to find ways to avoid what have become flag words and shut off all communication.

So what do you think about things like "Fetus in Fetu"?

Blessings,

MacG
I have seen programs on the health channel where they have discovered this abnormality in people who have lived for years before it was ever discovered.

Is the question, (1) if God doesn't make mistakes why are there babies born with defects? Or is the question (2) should babies with defects be aborted?

The kind of people who ask questions like why does God allow horrible things to happen would be the same ones who ask the first question. These type of people judge God by their own standards.

God's ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not ours. He doesn't cause all things to happen, but He causes all things to work toward good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.

Have you ever heard the song "God is God"?

It goes like this: God is God and I am not, I can only see a part of the picture He's painting. God is God and I am man so I'll never understand it all for only God is God.

It was written by Steven Curtis Chapman. His oldest son by accident backed over their 5 year old daughter and killed her last spring.

I have a friend whose daughter was born with cerebral palsy. When she conceived another baby her husband tried to force her to abort out of fear that they would have another imperfect baby. She wouldn't have the baby aborted and a perfect son was born to them.

At age 11 he was hit and killed by a truck that ran a stop sign. The daughter with cerebral palsy is married has two children and works a full time ***. She is an amazing woman.


People who ask questions like number 2 are those who are like Hitler. They see themselves as God in that they get to choose which life is valuable and which is not.

Who decides what is a mistake and what is not? Who decides what is perfect and what is not? Man looks on the outside but God looks on the heart.