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Originally posted by Tshabet
Where in the Christian doctrine is there any claim that innocent people won't die? It seems like you're equating God to an omnipotent being whose sole purpose is to keep bad stuff from happening. If that's your understanding of the Christian God, you're way off.
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I think the statement sprang from the idea that most Christians fully believe that god is a kind, benevolent being that cares about people and if you pray to him, good things will happen to you. "We prayed and prayed for little Tommy's recovery and god answered our prayers" kinda thing.
Does he spin a big roulette wheel and decide who's going to die and who isn't? Did he care more about the people who survived the tsunami than the ones that didn't? Or does he even really care at all? Why pray to him at all if he has no interest in answering your prayer? If he has the power to do something about it, but he chooses not to, then he's a despot. If he doesn't have the power in the first place, then he's not very omnipotent.
I've never heard reasonable to answers to these types of questions that didn't follow the "god works in mysterious ways" logic.
Mike