Comments on: Redeeming the Miraculous

By: Therese Z

Therese Z — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:07:25 +0000

As a fellow Chicago-arean, if there’s a word like that, I am very interested to hear your first-person accounting of the tragedy. The truck drove around lowered gates! His haste and look at the cost, and the potential cost, to so many others.

To Jeremy: this is a fallen world. All the twists and turns caused by human will and creation’s tendency towards chaos are our cross in life, to bear in patience and humility, and to help others who are suffering. If God sees fit in His omniscient view of time and place that we should be spared, then we thank Him for the gift and move on. Avoiding dying is not the ultimate goal of our lives – we all die. I hope that I have done His Will and loved and forgiven others as He has loved and forgiven me, that’s the goal.

By: David T. Koyzis

David T. Koyzis — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:12:15 +0000

I thank God, Sarah, that he saw fit to save you and the other passengers in the midst of such an horrific event. My wife and I were in an automobile accident in January on a rather dangerous stretch of local highway. No injuries, but I had Psalm 91 going through my head for days afterwards.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:03:41 +0000

I’m sincerely very happy that you and the others were not hurt.

But I feel compelled to ask if God saved you, did he cause or allow the truck driver to die? What about the thousands of other tragedies where person after person is killed or maimed? Doesn’t it make more sense to ascribe this to luck than to an entity who just saves some and lets others die?

By: Truth Unites... and Divides

Truth Unites... and Divides — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:54:58 +0000

Also, I’m thankful that you and all the others survived this horrendous collision.

Thanks be to a gracious and mighty God!

By: Truth Unites... and Divides

Truth Unites... and Divides — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:53:54 +0000

“there are no atheists in foxholes” doesn’t seem to apply any longer and I think this has much to do with our society’s entrance into a post-Christian era. As this relates to our cultural engagement, our conversations and arguments must be as saturated in prayer as much as they contain logical statements or appeals to emotions." Although we'll never know, there may have been just as much, if not more saturated prayer BEFORE the advent of this "post-Christian era".