“We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam"

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by August

God is not there to protect us. If he did what would be the point of our existence? Better to not have created us in the first place if all we are is puppets on a celestial string.

No, I believe God gave us the most precious gifts that any father can give his children. Freedom and trust. Trust that we'll use our freedom for good instead of evil. Kind of like the first time your father handed you the keys to his car, we are at the wheel of our own destiny so to speak. Yeah we might get hurt but that imo is far better than a completely sheltered life with no free will.

Yet the bible is full of verses that proclaim Gods protection.

It's sort of like so many of my friends post memes on FB that everything that happens to you is part of his plan and will. When I ask how a child being brutally raped is part of a plan, then it's just God is a mystery. My biggest issue is watching so many claim prayers answered or lil miracles, such as a raise, mortgage refinanced, new job, healing {under a doctors care of course} and a big PTL. It makes God seem so trife when you know millions of children suffer and die each year with mothers praying their hearts out and God turns a blind eye, yet can find time to give someone a raise. I wonder how someone feels that just lost a child to cancer seeing someone else claiming God found them a new car. Americans make God so generic and self serving.