Some Beliefs

Garrett Lambur
In my last post I touched upon the idea’s of free will and God’s ability to influence the earth and I thought I might expand upon this. I struggle with the idea that God has the ability to influence daily events on this planet. There are too many atrocities and other horrible things going on that I believe if God did have influence would not be happening. Why would God have let 6 million people be murdered in cold blood at the hands of one single human being? Why would over 20 million people be murdered during a 30 year reign of terror within Russia? Why let millions of people be enslaved for hundreds of years? Why let thousands if not millions of people die in civil wars against their own family members happen? To me there is too much unnecessary blood shed in the world for me to believe in the ability of God to touch everyday life. I guess you could consider me more of a Deist in my belief, not in the same manner as say Thomas Jefferson or others in the 17th and 18th century, but it is a close description of myself. Why would God help to intervene with something in our life while allowing for those other millions of people to die? Don’t try to argue with me that they had not let Jesus or God into their life, for millions of those millions who died were Christians themselves. I do not buy into that it was all part of God’s greater plan for them because I believe in free will and by claiming that there is a greater plan makes life pointless to me. If no matter what I do I am going to end up at the same place then why try to make any difference in my life, I would just wait until whatever end was planned for me happened. As a result I believe that things that happen all have a how though we may never know how and that God was not involved in the how, but he just is.