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Learning to play the hand life deals you
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<blockquote data-quote="Purp" data-source="post: 2736127" data-attributes="member: 12852"><p>I'm no theologian so I may not give you enough substance to answer your questions here, but I never meant to imply that free will and choice had anything to do directly with kids getting cancer. I never meant to imply that a kid's choice or a kid's parents' choices cause them to get cancer. I suppose it's possible, but I don't think so. That certainly wasn't my intent.</p><p></p><p>But until we truly know what causes cancer we'll never know whether or not this is true. I mean, if extreme exposure to sun, chemicals in the foods we eat and medications we take, radiation from electronic devices, etc. cause cancer then our choices to expose ourselves and our children (born and unborn) to them could very well be a direct link between free will and childhood cancer. But all of that totally misses my point.</p><p></p><p>I only introduced free will into the discussion to illustrate that the bad things that happen here on earth are of humankind's doing at Satan's behest and not God's. God did not create sin on earth; Satan and Eve did. Ever since that moment we've struggled to find and live in communion with God. That is until Christ's sacrifice for us. Now our faith in Him is our key to accepting His grace and mercy. It's an acknowledgement that we cannot do this life on earth without Him and we especially can't do eternal life with Him without Him.</p><p></p><p>But none of that has anything to do with disease. God's creation existed without disease until the original sin. Like sin, I believe disease was brought to earth by Satan. Just because God allows something to happen doesn't mean He makes it happen or planned for it to happen. He foreknew that it would happen, but that's different than making it happen. Job's story in the Bible is maybe the best example of this. </p><p></p><p>Cancer is a heinous thing. It took my mom in the first few weeks of my sophomore year at TCU so I know first-hand the kinds of gruesome things the cancer and combative treatments can do to the human body. But blaming God is assigning blame in the wrong place. He didn't create it, didn't put it into our bodies, and didn't take pleasure in observing the suffering it caused. Satan did, though, and I have no doubt he'd like you to believe God did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Purp, post: 2736127, member: 12852"] I'm no theologian so I may not give you enough substance to answer your questions here, but I never meant to imply that free will and choice had anything to do directly with kids getting cancer. I never meant to imply that a kid's choice or a kid's parents' choices cause them to get cancer. I suppose it's possible, but I don't think so. That certainly wasn't my intent. But until we truly know what causes cancer we'll never know whether or not this is true. I mean, if extreme exposure to sun, chemicals in the foods we eat and medications we take, radiation from electronic devices, etc. cause cancer then our choices to expose ourselves and our children (born and unborn) to them could very well be a direct link between free will and childhood cancer. But all of that totally misses my point. I only introduced free will into the discussion to illustrate that the bad things that happen here on earth are of humankind's doing at Satan's behest and not God's. God did not create sin on earth; Satan and Eve did. Ever since that moment we've struggled to find and live in communion with God. That is until Christ's sacrifice for us. Now our faith in Him is our key to accepting His grace and mercy. It's an acknowledgement that we cannot do this life on earth without Him and we especially can't do eternal life with Him without Him. But none of that has anything to do with disease. God's creation existed without disease until the original sin. Like sin, I believe disease was brought to earth by Satan. Just because God allows something to happen doesn't mean He makes it happen or planned for it to happen. He foreknew that it would happen, but that's different than making it happen. Job's story in the Bible is maybe the best example of this. Cancer is a heinous thing. It took my mom in the first few weeks of my sophomore year at TCU so I know first-hand the kinds of gruesome things the cancer and combative treatments can do to the human body. But blaming God is assigning blame in the wrong place. He didn't create it, didn't put it into our bodies, and didn't take pleasure in observing the suffering it caused. Satan did, though, and I have no doubt he'd like you to believe God did. [/QUOTE]
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