Word: godly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST year a TV station in Washington D.C. ran a special report on their news show entitled "Is God Mad At Us?" The series took a look at why there seemed to be so many bad things happening in recent years--droughts, plane crashes, earthquakes. It wasn't a landmark piece of investigative journalism, no exclusive interview with the Big Guy. Instead, it consisted of asking theologians, clergy and disaster victims whether the Second Coming was about to take place. I don't know what the conclusions were...
WHICH, of course, rules out blaming God and leaves only Mother Nature and us. with more on the way every second. The world's population, especially in underdeveloped Third World countries, is growing exponentially. It reached 4 billion just a few years ago and is expected by scientists to hit 5 billion right around the turn of the century. It took thousands of years before the world population could even approach 1 billion...
There are two types of people in the world: those who believe in God, and those who would like to prove that he doesn't exist. Maybe the Greek word hubris describes our desire to tame disasters, or even to categorize them...
...ever" merely means "worst-recorded." We haven't been recording these things for that long, and the carelessness with which we ignore the distinction between the two no doubt reflects our own certainty that the world was created for us only a short time ago. If there is a God, that may be a dangerous position to take with...
Help me to believe that with God I'm always a winner...