My former English teacher's house burned down today and she and her husband lost all their material possessions. We were all asked to pray for them. Really? That's the solution?
Had we been praying for them, according to the general status quo in the Bible belt, God would have intervened - that is, unless it was His will that a God-fearing couple who continually contributed to their community and served the public (she was a Texas school teacher, he was a veterinary doctor) should lose their every material possession in their retirement age, even though they professed their faith and regularly attended church.
God has a plan for all of us. We are too weak to know it. God apparently also made us in His own image. What a trip!
Does a spiritual being need physical arms and legs, eyes and ears, etc? There are plenty of babies born everyday who are deaf and dumb, paraplegic, etc to answer that question.
Here's the difference between my wife and I and our beliefs, and the aforementioned couple:
God didn't choose my place of residence. God has not chosen our careers. I am an atheist. God has no influence in my life or decisions because I do not believe that God exists. My wife is Agnostic. She doesn't know but accepts that. She's braver than I am. She's willing to acknowledge God as even possibly existing.
I do believe that a nuclear disaster is possible in my town and that my family and I could be vaporized into oblivion at any moments notice. I do believe that science has advanced enough that the aforementioned will not occur without outside (human!) intervention.
When a trailer house in Kansas is skipped by the F3 tornado, it's called a miracle by the residents. What about the neighbors? Did God spare that one sad-sack trailer because He hated everyone else around?
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