Murdered Children

Twenty children and a few adults were murdered yesterday in Newtown, Connecticut. The school Principal was among the victims. The violence occurred in Sandy Hook Elementary School at around 9:40 in the morning. Now, my point is this: when the Principal got up that morning - let's say around 6:00 a.m. - she had absolutely no idea that she would die later that morning. No clue whatsoever. In fact, even ten minutes before she died, she knew nothing about what was about to happen. Neither did anyone else who got shot and died. But God knew. He knows everything, even before it happens. God chose not to intervene. My question - and I keep asking this - why didn't God save them? God is all-powerful and saving the victims would have been absolutely no problem for Him. Why did He not save them? Anyone know? 

Comments

Very, very, very few people make comments on my blog. Very few. The reason for that? On average, about one tenth of one percent of readers make comments on other blogs. I have done the math. On this blog though, the ratio of commenters to readers is much, much, much lower. The reason: maybe it's too much trouble; maybe people don't have anything to say; maybe the blog does not stimulate anyone to contribute any comments; maybe the blog is boring and does not merit the time of day; maybe readers are afraid of me; maybe the blog is not read by anybody. The last reason is the most likely. There are almost ten billion people alive at this very moment - I'm lucky to get four of them to read my posts. So be it - that does not bother me one bit. I actually enjoy talking to myself. 

The Problem With God

The serious debate about the existence of God seems to have gotten started in the 20th Century.  Prior to the turn of the last century, His existence was hardly ever called into question. It was simply assumed that He existed. Then came major scientific achievements for which men took credit, as if they had been the creators, not the discoverers. Men discovered things which were there for millions of years but which were mysteries up until men started probing. In any case, the theory of evolution soon became a fashionable thing to expound.  There can be no question but that a thing cannot create itself, no matter how simple its structure. When someone can prove to me that a symphony which we attribute to Mozart or Beethoven or Bizet or Brahms or Shostakovitch, or anyone else, actually wrote itself, then I will stop believing in the existence of an all-powerful God. If I know that even the simplest children's book could not write itself, why bother with anything more complex? The DNA molecule of a human being is said to be exceedingly complex. Its code is very long, but then, it contains the instructions for the production of a human person. It's like a biological, living, computer chip. If that came into existence as a result of billions of years of trial and error, then we can say that a long row of 10,000 cars, all painted in ten different colors, with engines running, can line themselves up in an orderly and predetermined fashion, without any outside help. Ludicrous. The very thought that anything, whether living or inanimate, can come into being without outside guidance and purpose is silly beyond imagining. The problem with belief in God is actually moral. Evil is impossible to reconcile with God. So we doubt God. We cannot see God so we doubt God. We cannot imagine the magnitude of power that it takes to create a star or a solar system or a universe - power focused in one Being. It is simply beyond imagining. So, we doubt God. We cannot imagine a God who would watch horrible events take place on Earth without stepping in and doing something about it so we doubt God. A little girl gets run over by a truck and God knew ahead of time but He did not intervene. Does anyone know why? That is the problem. 

Yes, God Knew

A little girl, 11 years old, recently got run over by a truck. She was crossing the street and did not see the truck coming because the truck was being blocked by another vehicle which was to the left of and alongside the truck but slightly ahead of it. For the same reason, the driver of the truck that struck the girl didn't see her coming and couldn't stop in time. The little girl quickly died from her injuries. If she had been at the curb just thirty seconds before, she would have made it across safely. Five minutes before all of this happened, God knew what was about to happen. The driver was probably listening to the radio or simply thinking what she was going to make for dinner or any of a hundred other things, oblivious to what lay in store for her and the little girl just five minutes hence. The little girl was probably thinking what an eleven-year-old normally thinks about. The last thing on her mind was that she would be dead within the next five minutes. God knew, though He simply did not intervene. Does anyone know why? 

God knew

Have you ever wondered.... I read in the paper that a man driving on the freeway on his way home from a basketball game never made it home because a tire hit his windshield and killed him almost instantly. The tire came off a big truck driving in the opposite direction on the other side of the freeway. It was considered a freak accident. The man, of course, had no idea what was about to happen to him two minutes before the tire came crashing through his windshield. As far as he was concerned, he was just driving home normally. He had no idea even ten seconds before the ocurrence. But God knew. A girl driving home from somewhere had a blowout and burned to death when her van overturned and pinned her so that she could not get out. Five seconds before the blowout she was driving happily home, completely oblivious to what was about to happen. But God was not oblivious. He knew. People who went to work at the Twin Towers on 9/11/2001 had no idea what would happen to them that morning, but God did. He knew. God knows about every accident that's about to happen and every crime and atrocity about to be committed. He knows about every child who is beat up and every injustice that takes place. Every greedy act. Every dishonest act. Every perverse act. Yet, He does not intervene. Why not? Anyone know?