I will never understand how someone can say: "God put me there to help that girl," when the girl being helped was just abducted, raped and tortured by a lunatic. Shouldn't God just have prevented that from happening in the first place, rather than putting you there to help her?
Can anyone explain this? Why would God operate this way?
Oh wait, maybe God works the nightshift and this girl was abducted before his shift began so he could only put someone there to help her after hours . . . after her abduction, rape and attempted murder. That actually makes more sense. Maybe that's how it goes.
. . . or not.
If God is what many believe him to be - like a parent watching over us - how many of you parents out there would let things like this and worse happen to your children, only to save them later, but not all of them - just some? Is God trying to teach us lessons with all of this suffering? Kids do sometimes have to suffer to learn lessons.
"God put me there to help that girl" seems to make about as much sense as a father putting his young child in a car with no car seat or seat belt, then driving 65 miles per hour off a cliff, where the child is ejected through the windshield and nearly dies. Then, the parent calls 911 and first responders save the child. Would that make sense? Would that be OK?
Maybe things just happen and maybe those here on earth, not God, are actually in control and responsible for these things that happen, good and bad. Maybe the universe unfolds as a reaction to all of us and some of us end up in exactly the right place at the right time. And some do not.
I want to believe in a God who watches over us, but it is very hard to do that when there is so much suffering in the world. Any talk of God is a highly personal and complicated conversation though, so we should stop here. Maybe I've already said too much and this isn't meant to offend anyone, especially God. No, no. I CAN'T BE BOTHERED with the wrath of God!
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