Abortionists Children Died In The Montana Plane Crash

[CatherineM]

God doesn't work that way, but I can't help from feeling kind of weirded out by the whole thing. I can't imagine how awful it must be for him to have basically lost all his family and closest friends in one swoop.

[Paddington]

[quote name='Aloysius' post='1816333' date='Mar 25 2009, 06:06 PM']and some types of Protestants do have a twisted understanding of God's wrath and reward thinking riches and good fortune to always be a sign of favor from God and bad fortune always a sign of His displeasure (Calvinists, for instance).[/quote]

Calvinists don't think that. They think the same as you on it.

[LouisvilleFan]

I heard about this story on the radio one morning while waking up, but all I heard about was a plane crashing in a cemetery, and I couldn't help but admire the irony.

Though, that may not be as ironic as noticing that the free-lance writer who contributed this article to Christian News Wire, [url="http://www.gingiedmonds.com/Home_Page.html"]Gingi Edmonds[/url], hosts her web site at godaddy.com, whose sexually-oriented marketing shames any beer commercial you've seen during the Super Bowl.

Hmm...

[Luigi]

"these things happen to the good and the bad alike, but that doesn't mean there is no message in them."

Agreed - things happen in the world, and we who are in the world try to understand them - we draw some kind of meaning from them. The original article was useful in that it supplied additional details that were not generally reported the first time around. The questions is, "What do we make of it?" Personally, I see a literary type of irony in it - one man experiencing "the death of children" at both ends of the spectrum, what he was doing to others happened to him, and so forth. But I see it as literary irony only. I'm always leery of declaring "This was the will of God," in almost any circumstance.

I know of a number of very good people who have died in accidents or of medical conditions, and I don't see those deaths as necessarily "God's will" in the sense of God The Father sitting on a throne in heaven issuing orders to attending angels saying, "Go pluck that woman in childbirth home to me, and do it NOW!" or "Strike that father of eight with terminal cancer, and make it long & slow." And I doubt that God's hand reached down from heaven and slapped that plane to the ground.

The significant and/or interesting part is how we go about interpreting the events after they've happened. I'm of the opinion that God - and only God - can draw good out of evil, or in this case, tragedy. I don't know yet what good will come out of this particular tragedy. And for people who don't interpret events properly (whatever that means! - this is WAY open to discussion), they may never see any good come from it. But the way I try to interpret events is to look for some kind of good, as a result, sooner or later, for somebody.

In terms of my opinion of the original article, I do think the author is gloating a little bit - kind of like "God's gonna get you for that!" On the other hand, it is a probably an honest attempt to interpret the events, s/he won't be the only person who comes to that same conclusion, and it's probably more an immediate reaction than a reflective analysis about the events. What we are doing in our discussion here is moving toward a more reflective analysis of the events.

Best regards.

[philothea]

Just being obvious here. Ahem.

The irony was not that this man's children died, but that they crashed [i]next to a monument to aborted children[/i]. Those aren't exactly thick on the ground.

These people could have crashed elsewhere, and very little would have been made of it. Another group of people, part of a family doing some other evil, non-abortion activity could've crashed there, and very little would have been made of it.

But no: these people died there. What are we supposed to do, call it a coincidence? We don't believe it that kind of thing, right?

It's terrible and tragic but still... something looks rather meaningful.

[Brother Adam]

I pray that all those on the plane made the decision, even at the last moment, to turn to the Lord, put their faith in Christ, and repent of any sins. My prayer is they have returned home, and through this tragedy, the Holy Spirit will plant the seeds that will lead this father to faith so he will stop the murdering of children as he has the ability to.

Edited March 26, 2009 by Brother Adam

[Saint Therese]

THat's very ironic.
May they rest in peace.

Edited March 26, 2009 by Saint Therese