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Great point !
Friend speaks my mind !

What I find most surprising about this blog entry is that none of the Christians looking in have tried to enter their favorite theodicy here -- you know, one of those word jumbles that "explains" why an all-loving, omnipotent God allows awful things to happen to people.

Maybe they're all too busy getting worked up over gay marriage... {;-)

This state of things is the direct result of the Fall, from which all the sinful and despicable acts of depraved humanity flow. God's plan of redemption has been in process ofor several millennia, and will become mosre and more apparent as the Kingdom comes on earth over time. What the latter scenario does tell us though is that sin is very very real; the depths of which are hardly imaginable to the average person. Only now and then does it go public. A loving home, consisting of a mother and father who know and love the Lord Jesus, who shape thier lives and that of thier children according to the Word of God has the best chance of producing healthy, loving and rieghteous children. The downward spiral of our, including a great many of our youth, is directly atributable to the scarcity of true, biblical, loving Christianity. Relgion - liberal and whako - we have plenty of; but scriptural models are hard to come by these days.

Whoops . . . In the case of the scout, he was an innocent victim of his own caprice, who sought to extricate himself from his plight. Those who were seeking him were also good citizens, many of whom probably knew the Lord and were sensitive to His Spirit. Prayer is not a magic formula, or a heavenly slot machine. God puts several qualifiers on what prayer gets answered. Sin is a major roadblock to prayers being answered.

In the case of the molester, a sin-bound person, who had viable volition, and was impervious to God’s leading, was acting in space/time outside the realm of intervention. You could have prayed till your knees were raw for Hitler, for example, and you would have gotten nowhere. But pray, as many did, for his demise and the Lord heard mightily.

Why does God work in time, and not just blast the earth out of existence, ending all sin and depravity? That’s primarily His business; but the earthly realm was obviously created to be a place subject to the on-going exigencies of time. All the prophecies of redemption history are couched in time. It’s the environ He provided for man’s volition to be freely expressed and historically manifested in order for things to consummate as God preordained them to. Nevertheless, some things, the Scripture says, are beyond our capacity to understand or figure out. I’ll leave it there.