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Originally Posted by
Nikos
This really grabs my heart for these people. We do not understand, but we must be ready at all times if it is our time to go be with Jesus.
SAY WHAT?!!!!!
Time to go to be with Jesus? Is it your belief that Jesus sends crazed murderers to shoot people whose SO-CALLED TIME TO GO TO BE WITH HIM has arrived? My Bible teaches quite differently on this subject:
The thief [Satan] cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10:10)
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. (1 John 3:12)
Jesus is not sitting there with an Calendar scheduling people's day of death. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that everyone in that church knew Jesus, which means their death definitely went against His will (Eze. 18:32; 33:11; 1 Tim. 2:4; 2 Pet. 3:9). It is this type of teaching coming from "Christians" which makes God the responsible party for such tragedies that produce atheists and haters of God.