Phil,
         I think that that's about the point that I would ask them if 
they would like a second cup of coffee and some more dessert and then 
pray that something distracting would happen to help me change the subject.
         Seriously though, isn't the lesson of your story with the 
family with the car similar to the lesson learned from Job.  God 
doesn't answer the why questions and, He doesn't have too.  I know 
that that won't be a satisfactory answer to a non  believer, but they 
also refuse to believe that no one is innocent because all are guilty 
and deserving of death.   So, there you go.  This kind of discussion 
just will not be resolved over one conversation which means we need 
to build relationship and that always takes time.
         I heard the coolest saying yesterday on Focus on the 
Family.  God doesn't make microwave Christians.  He uses crock 
pots.  Boy, ain't that the truth.
Kathy

At 03:22 PM 6/22/2006, you wrote:
>This isn't as long.  To show you how unpredictable lightning can be,
>yesterday, a 46 year old man was riding his motorcycle on a highway the cuts
>through the middle of Denver North and South.  Lightning struck him on top
>of the head as he rode and he crashed into a part of a bridge he was about
>to pass under.  He died.  If you think that is weird, a couple of years ago,
>a husband and wife, along with their little girl, were driving down a main
>highway out of the mountain coming into Denver.  They were on vacation.  A
>piece of steel weighting two or three tons feel from the bridge just as the
>car passed under it and literally chopped the car in half.  The front of the
>car continued down the highway for several hundred feet.  All three people
>were killed instantly without ever knowing what happened.  Plus, the young
>wife was pregnant.  So, now, you theologians out there, how do we explain
>this to those who say, where was God?  I heard later these people were
>Christians, too, but don't know that for sure.  I still would like to hear
>how others would explain this to unbelievers asking, where was God, if He
>was real and why would He allow this to happen?
>
>Phil.
>
>
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