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NASB | Isaiah 55:8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 55:8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. |
Bible Question: People die on September 11, 2001,I know God is omnipresent all knowing.He rose with all power in his hand in heaven and on earth, so why did innocent people died please help me understand or is this one of those things were they say you are not going to understand. Another things is when I read the bible I am having a hard time understand who said what because God didn't say everything in the bible. Please help |
Bible Answer: Greetings Towanda, You asked how God could of allowed this. I like the way that Billy Grahams daughter put it when asked by Bryant Gumbel: "For years we have told God we didn't want Him in our schools. We didn't want Him in our government and we didn't want Him in our finances and God was being a perfect gentleman in doing just what we asked Him to do. We need to make up our mind--do we want God or do we not want Him. We cannot just ask Him in when disaster strikes." God gave man free choice. When we make the choices God let's us reap the consequences of our choices. Unfortunetly others can also suffer because of our choices. A good question is where man was before this happened? God was there at the World Trade Center. He was at the Pentagon. He was with them at the plane crash in Pennsylvania. He was with those who got detained and didn't make it to work. He was there with those who didn't make it out who needed comfort. Man, however, was not concerned with what he needed to be concerned with - living Godly and praying for our land. Man was concerned with self. If America would of been on her knees praying for our country I doubt that the events on Sept. 11 would of happened. We can not expect God to be there if He is not asked. He is a loving and compassionate God but He is not a pushy God. We can be joyful in the fact that those innocent people did not die in vain. Many have turned back to the Lord while many others have turned to the Lord for the fist time because of this. Our country has become united for the first time in a long time. We have seen for the first time in many years prayer in the higher ranks of our leaders. God is truly in control! You said you are having a hard time understanding the bible. It is very hard to help you to understand without specific question. Please feel free to ask about anything you don't understand and we will be most happy to put it in prospective for you so that you can understand what God is saying. I must add, though, that the bible is the inspired word of God. He wrote it all. Nothing went into the bible that God did not put in there. prayon |