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(Bobsprit) wrote in message ...
Is it not true, It was better to have loved and loss, than to not love
at all?

No. These hearts are ruined. Nothing has been gained. The couple deserved a
happy and healthy daughter.

Satan introduced sickness, pain, suffering and death into the creation
as a consequence of that first sin. And unlike God, Satan doesn't have
to be fair so these things affect even the innocent. Because it's no
longer "politically correct" to even acknowledge Satan's existence,
the only one left to blame is God. So with a considerable assist from
liberal theology, God gets all the blame, Satan gets off Scot Free,
and lost people everywhere cry "Why me?" without ever getting an
answer.

You need to look in a mirror Bob

First, when I say look in the mirror, I mean that most of us do more
in a day to diminish our physical and mental wellbeing than to enhance
it. Just look at your eating and exercise habits, the stress you
create and endure in the work place, the way you enslave yourselves to
materialism, the enormous load of debt and responsibility you carry,
and the way you suffer and cause suffering in your relationships.

A basic rule of architecture is that the weakness of any structure
will present itself under stress. The lifestyle we choose can be a
source of enormous stress, irrespective of how good we are, or of the
good things we do. And for some the very effort required to do and be
good is itself a source of stress. Psychologists know that stress
reduces our attention span, distracts us, angers us and makes us more
prone to accidents and illness. Any weakness in our physical and/or
mental structure will eventually present itself under stress.

Ready for Seconds?

Where did these weaknesses in our physical and mental structure come
from? The Book of Genesis tells us that Adam and Eve were created by a
direct act of God and in His image. He placed them in the Garden of
Eden and gave them only one rule. When they broke that rule, sin
entered into the world, and Satan became the spiritual power behind
events on earth (1 John 5:19).

It is Satan who brought all the pain and suffering into our world. And
it's the ongoing presence of sin that makes this possible. The bible
calls Satan the god of this age (2 Cor 4:4) and the prince of this
world (John 12:31, 14:30. 16:11), and asserts that the whole world is
under his control. We don't inhabit the world as God created it, but
the one contaminated by Satan's rebellion and Adam's sin. Because we
live here, and are descendants of Adam and Eve we suffer the
consequences of their sin, one of which is our own propensity for sin.
(According to Genesis 5:3 we are made in Adam's image.)

Truth or Consequences?

These sin consequences are so much a part of our reality that we
hardly question them. But consider this. Do you really believe a
perfect God deliberately created an imperfect image of Himself; an
image with the genetic disposition for disease and other physical and
mental malfunctions? That a Creator who is defined as the
personification of love designed us to hate those who are different?
Or caused those around us to withhold the love we so desperately need
so we would conclude that we're unlovable and end our own lives? Would
an eternal God create temporal children who get old and sick, fall
apart, die and go to hell while He lives on? Cause parents to beat,
abuse and abandon and even murder their own children; offspring of the
very process of procreation He had delegated to them in the first
place? Have you ever had to watch your child die? God has watched 6
BILLION of His die.

Bob he's God and You're Not

You say "But He's God. He can do anything He wants. He can stop this."
No He can't, and that's what makes Him God. He's not just some more
powerful version of us. He can't be arbitrary or capricious like we
are. He can't relieve us of the consequences of sin in the world. He
can love you enough to purchase a pardon for your sins (it took His
life) but He cant make you love Him enough to accept it. He has to be
just, He has to be fair, and He has to play by the rules. These rules
require Him to allow events that are not consistent with either His
pleasure or His desire. When His rules are broken (we call that sin)
He has to permit consequences.

Joe

No mercy from any god was issued or offered. Even
their marriage was destroyed.
God? No thanks.

RB