Quote from: quadz on September 10, 2008, 06:22:16 PMThe Dragon In My Garageby Carl Sagan"A fire-breathing dragon lives in my garage"Would 9 hospital doctor verified myocardial infractions with NO current heart damage qualify as footprints?QD
The Dragon In My Garageby Carl Sagan"A fire-breathing dragon lives in my garage"
I suppose I should rephrase this as : ACUTE myocardial infractions with NO current heart damage.
Abraham hears voices and they are God. Other people hear voices and are called possessed. Still others hear voices and they are voices of "the Devil". Others confess to hearing voices and are "diagnosed" as schizophrenic. The consistency of the observations, actions and conclusions speak for themselves.Muhammad claimed he heard the same voices.QED
Note, I am gratified you have no current heart damage, and in no way do I seek to trivialize anything you've gone through. But I did want to ask:Couldn't God even more easily just have prevented any atherosclerotic plaque from slowly building up in the inner lining of a coronary artery, suddenly rupturing, and totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream?Why allow any plaque to build up and rupture in the first place, only to perform the lesser miracle(?) of ensuring no detectable damage ensues?Seems like God is allowing you to experience a lot of suffering and unpleasantness He could have trivially spared you.Unless He's pulling a "Job" on you? Personally I find the story of Job to be quite immoral. But I wouldnt wish it on anyone!Regards,quadz
It seems to me most of the objections people have with God boils down understanding His doing, allowing, not doing, not allowing or not stopping some event - in other words, what's His motivation? Since we aren't (although we act like it some of the time) supreme all-powerful beings, I don't think we could really understand God's motives even if He took the time to explain them to us. What would be our common points of reference? Miracles are by definition a suspension of anything we can understand and we really have two choices when faced with one - acceptance or rejection - there really isn't a "put it on the shelf and think about it later" option. I suppose for me, I don't care about the problem as long as I make it through OK.