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sad_eyed_lady
I know there has been much debate here about miracles and supernatural occurrences.
On short order I though about a situation that happened to me, I was driving down a road in my city at night, probably going the speed limit (40 mph) when without thought I hit the brakes for no apparent reason, then I see a cat run across the front of my car. It puzzled me how that happened. Now, I see why. It was the gift of counsel.
Just thought I would share this and wonder if others remember anything similar in their past that would be "counsel."
You wouldn't call it a, major miracle, but it was supernatural IMHO. It happened and now I understand why.
Prezbo369
sad_eyed_lady
I know there has been much debate here about miracles and supernatural occurrences.
On short order I though about a situation that happened to me, I was driving down a road in my city at night, probably going the speed limit (40 mph) when without thought I hit the brakes for no apparent reason, then I see a cat run across the front of my car. It puzzled me how that happened. Now, I see why. It was the gift of counsel.
Just thought I would share this and wonder if others remember anything similar in their past that would be "counsel."
You wouldn't call it a, major miracle, but it was supernatural IMHO. It happened and now I understand why.
You think a god intervened to save a cats life while leaving over a million people worldwide to die in traffic related incidents?? (33,000 a year in the US)
Must've been one very important cat....edit on 24-12-2013 by Prezbo369 because: (no reason given)
sad_eyed_lady
My first cat, Jet, got run over by a car and seeing his mutilated body is a memory I still have 54 years later. God knows me and my soft heart. I consider this a blessing that spared me a lot of sadness. Yes, the cat got to live another day. I was given a mystery that I never understood until last night, one that I believe He meant for me to share here.
adjensen
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Merry Christmas, Prezbo!
I suspect that most participants in this thread are done with you, you may wish to find another thread to troll.
Prezbo369
sad_eyed_lady
My first cat, Jet, got run over by a car and seeing his mutilated body is a memory I still have 54 years later. God knows me and my soft heart. I consider this a blessing that spared me a lot of sadness. Yes, the cat got to live another day. I was given a mystery that I never understood until last night, one that I believe He meant for me to share here.
Why would a god, a 'loving' god, intervene to save a cats life and to save you a little sadness, while hundreds of men, women and children are being killed right now as I type this? (or as you read this...)
Can't you imagine the sadness of those in the incidents, the families, friends? Isn't that infinitely more sad than the sadness you've have felt if you had hit that cat?
Wouldn't you agree that what you're proposing is more than a little narcissistic?edit on 24-12-2013 by Prezbo369 because: (no reason given)
I was given a mystery that I never understood until last night, one that I believe He meant for me to share here.
What upset me most was your comment that the State is God. Perhaps I totally misunderstood how you felt about that idea, but I do not like it. When the State attempts to become God and there is a suppression of religious freedom we lose a great liberty.
History is always thrown back at us. How much longer will we have to be judged on things of the past? Yes, there were popes long ago who were politically appointed and did very wrong things. Honestly, I don't see the Papacy as a Kingship. The Pope is a servant of God (or should be) if he is not.
His research shows that the death toll from democide is far greater than the death toll from war. After studying over 8,000 reports of government-caused deaths, Rummel estimates that there have been 262 million victims of democide in the last century. According to his figures, six times as many people have died from the actions of people working for governments than have died in battle.
Why would a god, a 'loving' god, intervene to save a cats life and to save you a little sadness, while hundreds of men, women and children are being killed right now as I type this? (or as you read this...)
Can't you imagine the sadness of those in the incidents, the families, friends? Isn't that infinitely more sad than the sadness you've have felt if you had hit that cat?
Wouldn't you agree that what you're proposing is more than a little narcissistic?edit on 24-12-2013 by Prezbo369 because: (no reason given)
orangetom1999
I think that you are being a bit narcissistic here while tending towards putting this onus off on others.
The doctrine of which I know is that God is authoritian and Sovereign..not at our beck and call..at our belief systems.
You seem to be using as a starting point that we are all good people and therefore by default deserve good things. So therefore why would a good god have bad things happen to good people.
I dont buy into this type of thinking.
I happen to think that we are all bad people...from the beginning...having done no good or evil..before we were born.
Thanks,
Orangetom
........you seem to making the argument that everyone that is hurt, mutilated or killed in traffic accidents, even children and babies..........deserves it? whereas SadEyedLady's feelings get a free pass???
Any excuse for a rant tho eh?
sad_eyed_lady
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A psychologist I worked with once told me that what we criticize in others Is what we don’t like In ourselves.
When we criticize others for whatever, those are the things that gripe us about ourselves. Once you learn this and observe others criticizing someone what you see is them nakedly exposing the qualities in themselves they can not stand.
orangetom1999
I didn't say this..you did. I said we are not good people...and God does not automatically give us good things because we deserve it.
I also did not say SadEyedLady gets a free pass. You did.
What is with SadEyedLady and her pets is her business. She is not accountable for what happens in the world nor to everyone out here. She is driving her bus and is not automatically by default accountable to yours or my thinking/beliefs.
Now..to clear this up..on my personal level..I think alot more of some animals of the four legged variety than do I of the two legged variety. It is my way and I dont account to anyone for this as long as I am driving my own bus. It is that simple.
I do not care for social default settings or one size fits all. I will make up my own mind. Same with guilt programming so popular today. It does not work on me. I've seen to much of it.
You see Prezbo369 I get this same pattern of misdirection in the gay type posts when I say or declare that people are so much more than sexuality and sexual orientation and that people who define themselves by their sexuality are plain old dumb.
For people are so much more than sexuality and sexual orientation.
But very few people seem to understand the distinction while trying to put onus off on others.
Same with your post. You are going to put the onus off on God as if we deserve good things. I dont think so. But No problem.
I can deal with it.
Whenever I detect someone going down that road such as you and others are want to do...I ask myself what television and movie world they are living in???
As you can see ..I dont live in this type of world. I am of the Salt of the Earth..not the sugar.
History itself paints a very different picture than what you are want to post.
I said no such thing, however I did ask SadEyedLady why she thought she deserved this special treatment when so many perish on a constant and horrific basis.
Why would a god, a 'loving' god, intervene to save a cats life and to save you a little sadness, while hundreds of men, women and children are being killed right now as I type this? (or as you read this...)
Can't you imagine the sadness of those in the incidents, the families, friends? Isn't that infinitely more sad than the sadness you've have felt if you had hit that cat?
Wouldn't you agree that what you're proposing is more than a little narcissistic?
edit on 24-12-2013 by Prezbo369 because: (no reason given)
Anyone that has to declare "I am of the Salt of the Earth"...........is anything but....
Thanks for the history lesson, Tom. It make sense and I believe it, I just have a question about your Gandhi comment. Sounds like you are saying he was owned, or maybe a pawn in their game.
If so, do you think this is so for the Catholics as well? If you haven't noticed this Administration is not too fond of us. I read an article about a year ago. Obama's worst fear: Catholics strike back
I listened to a recorded talk given by one of our bishops entitled: "Today's persecution of the Church." He quoted another bishop who predicted: "I will die in my bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will be martyred." We are hearing these warnings from our Bishops who see the writing on the wall.
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
I have shown on my timeline this regime shooting Qurans (and nobody batted an eye). Now they do this and I am sure none of you will even notice. This shows also that the "outrage" against the US's desecration of such Qurans is manufactured.
l Ephesians 6:12 American Standard Version (ASV) 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.