RpR, forgive me for appointing you god’s spokesman here, but as you seem to know a little bit about his thinking you might be able to enlighten me.

First, I truly wish you had not lost the one you loved and that the fact she died was in such miserable manner.

That said.

God does not go around giving persons misery. (I am not going to say that there could be some truly evil people God deals with directly but that is not the norm. I.e. one does not get punished for ones sins while alive on earth. Anyone that says one does is either a moron or lying.

I am going to make this as short as possible due to the fact that the items that affect one’s life are like a huge complex mathematical equation, i.e. the end result is massive and complex but when broken down is mostly a collection of simple arithmetic equations that are in series, not parallel.

Why did she get cancer?
This is not meant to be funny but only God really knows but just as hemophiliacs do not make themselves that way, their ancestors started that ball rolling downhill. Most probably something in her ancestry started the ball rolling that made he susceptible.

Does God intercede on behalf of some and not others, yes.
I can personally attest to that which makes no sense to me because I have not lived what anyone would call a “good” Christian life, yet the last surgeon who worked on me told me during my last visit that he told all his associates about me because there was no logical reason for him to be checking me out 100 per cent recovered as I should have been in physical therapy for months and have had high percent disability.

All but one of Jesus disciples died horrible deaths, and were told this before Jesus left.
Why?
I can give possible reasons that psychologist could understand but that is still an opinion based on a semi-educated guess.

Too many preachers, far, far, far too many, go around preaching that God (Jesus) is love blah, blah, blah totally ignoring the hundreds of passages in the New Testament that say life is a bitch, always has been and always will be.
But it does also say as one faith grows, the ability to deal with the reality of life grows. That does not mean life is a bed or roses but God may kill some of the weeds of life before they foul one’s garden.

Moggy I truly wish I could give you the answer you wish to hear but I cannot. I did not get to the point of faith I am at now decades ago, it was a process of listening and reading and praying. Some prayers coming from personal misery.
You may ridicule this if you prefer but I do pray for all those I associate with whether direct or indirect and all I can really do for you is to pray that eases your sadness.

Godspeed Moggy

No, the problem is clearly all yours. Why are you afraid to answer questions honestly?

I answered them and you did not like what they were, that is your problem but then in life, one does not always get the response one wants to hear.

You can keep on trying to work a strawman debate but you will do it by yourself.

Apparently you haven’t read very much Dawkins at all.

Your rhetoric sounds more like some one who is frustrated that God does not prevent man from being the servant of his own stupidity.
In the Bible God tells the people with whom he had a covenant — here are the rules, follow them or there will be hell to pay.
That God was true to his word, when men thought they could change the rules without penalty and paid dearly for it, seems to upset you greatly.

Why? The guy clearly instructs people in the bible to kill their own children. Why wouldn’t you do it?

If it does prove it.

As for the rest you do not like the answers and that is your problem not mine.

Sorry Charlie, really couldn’t be bothered to read the whole thread. Just wanted to wade straight in and demonstrate my own ignorance.

So is that a yes or no?

I think its a yes, and maybe he already has…;o)

Thinking appears not to be one of your strong points.

It may well be Gary, that it may be an American “Intervention” in some conflict, that will trigger WW3, and cause our demise, unless of course some ALIEN intervention stops it……:rolleyes:
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Yes you are correct, God and angels coming to earth whether by hocus-pocus or in actual vehicles ARE ALIENS.

I already did, Snafu.

“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”

No hope for most of this forum then!!

Welcome back by the way!!:)

That was/is really aimed at those that thought/think they can play both ends against the middle.
God does not condemn ignorance; God probably gets really, really pissed-off with those that use God’s name to play hustler games.

I’d have liked to have seen RpR’s answers to the questions ZRX asked him…….

Really, hmmm, one cannot prove God exists; one cannot prove God does not exist.
So why are those who believe wrong?

Common sense?

Common sense kept slavery going in the U.S. for over a century; common sense brought about prohibition.

Common sense has the value of feces floating in a toilet.

Now belief in a god verses Richard Dawkins belief that life came from crystals (of course not bothering to say where the crystals came from) well such idiocy makes one wonder how any god deniers dare laugh at those of faith.
I guess the deniers are just content to have faith that life came about magically even though to say something came from nothing is on its best day absurd.