Dear God

Dear god, it’s me Ceci, and I have a question. Why didn’t you save the people that died in disasters like 9-11?

Ceci, I understand your concerns for those people that died. I gave the entire race an amazing ability called free will. I allow every man and woman to make decisions by themselves, whether it is good or bad. People need to be allowed to make their mistakes, and be able to see the outcome, so they can learn from the bad things that follow.  People wouldn’t see the error of their ways if I blocked the wrongfulness of them. If I granted the miracle to physically stop the 9-11attacks, I’d need to grant miracles for every wrong path people take. If they make no wrong decisions, is there really free will? They would be without emotion. They need to see what they did was wrong, and stop it. In 9-11 when the Arab Muslims crashed that plane into the twin Towers in New York, the field in Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon in Washington D.C, they were all examples of a bad decision, and an abuse of free will, where others suffered. It was abused in Eden, where Eve took, and ate the forbidden fruit. People continue to make bad decisions, which result in bad outcomes. As I said to Isaiah, “I am the Lord, and there’s none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the lord do all these things.” Everything happens for a reason.

Reviews

[Cory Tucholski]

I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE the "free will defense" to why bad things happen to good people. It's ultimately unsatisfying because an omnipotent God could find a way to skirt free will. Indeed, we see in the Bible several examples of him doing just exactly that (see Gen 20:1-8, esp. v. 6)! And, remember, also from the book of Isaiah God tells the prophet, "I am God. . . declaring the end from the beginning. . ." (45:9-11).

The free will defense is ultimately unsatisfying because everything, including human free will, is under the purview of a truly sovereign God. He has no need to uphold free will to accomplish his purpose, and we often see that he uses it to accomplish those purposes, and many times he even trumps it and lets his purpose stand. My hatred of the free will defense is the reason I docked you so many points on this.

But, at the end, you redeemed yourself. "Everything happens for a reason." That's it, right there! God lets everything happen for reasons known only to him, and everything works out for the purpose of him and to the benefit of those he has called elect (Rom 8:28).

It is in trials and tribulations that we show our true humanity. That, combined with the unsearchable purpose of God, is why bad things happen.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of bad theology, it was ADAM that caused the Fall. The eating of the forbidden fruit wasn't a sin until ADAM did it (see Rom 5:12-14).

[Wórdsmíth]

The piece of writin' that you just found to write here is lovable, you memorized me that that memories that i just saw on t.v or founded on net...after read out your this work i'm really gonna get my net n gonna figure out about all war II, yeah, you well said that, if we don't make or do any kinda mistake's or stakes then we can't figure out what we did wrong's n where we're going, god has gifted a life there's all kinda people Good, Bad, n neutral...
good people think positive n negative as well, but bad people think only about negativity or think negative...but the people who're neutral that means they feeel or think positive...neagtive or may b they don't think about it...
there's no one's good n no one's bad, all are organisms who survive amid the world of creature's...the most important thing that i found here in your this "screenplay" is

"Everything happens for a reason..."

Well written...

[Stanley Wilson]

good work what happens next to cj??