The town of Greenville burned down but this sign didn't. A message from God.

@tindrummer That's why when it comes, it will hit like a tonne of bricks. And yet it is already here. The reason it lingers is so that you can prepare yourself.

@tindrummer Why is now different? There hasn't been all the signs that Jesus talked about at the same time in every country until now, that's why! And this time is an appointed time in history 6000 years after Adam, we are about to go into the year of rest when Jesus comes.

@SW-User That's exactly true!

@Carazaa Are some of the other fires thought to be arson attacks then?

Earthquakes happen irrespective of humans; and plenty of them have damaged or destroyed places of worship. How careless of God!

Handy being able to ignore or refuse to understand basic physical geographical processes beyond all human control, in order to blame humans en masse for those processes.

@ArishMell How careless of God? Are you kidding? Please... We are sinful and God has said he will destroy this earth as he comes to judge the world. With his stripes we are healed. I know him and He is preparing to come back and I can't wait for the new heaven and the new earth where there are no more tears. We need to repent and turn to God! I will not discuss or argue with people who don't know the Bible and just blame God for their own sins. God says

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They reject me because their deeds are evil"

@Carazaa I was being very tongue-in-cheek with the "careless" comment; but natural events happen regardless of people. Some forest fires might be by human causes: arson, accident or carelessness. An earthquake or storm is part of how the planet "works", so theologically, part of God's normal activities. We are hurt or killed when we find ourselves in the way of the process.

You may have a favourite beach where you and many others go swimming; but would you try swimming when a storm gale has piled the sea into big, breaking waves? Of course not, it could kill you; but the sea is rough because God wants to oxygenate the water, re-shape the coast, move sea-bed sediments about; while the storm's rains are replenishing the rivers and land. Not to kill you.

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Obviously we cannot divide humanity into two groups - unbelieving Bad and believing Good.

There are Bad people, there are Good people; by nature or circumstances.

Some of the Bad are very very bad by nature; many simply and occasionally misjudge or err, or are momentarily weak.

Some of the Good go to extraordinary lengths to do good works; most are simply kind and caring, respecting other people, in their ordimnary lives.

Some Bad are religious (or claim it), and do indeed blame God for their "sins"; or claim their actions are supporting God. Others are agnostic, or atheist.

Some Good are religious, some agnostic, some atheist.

You do not need to be a non-believer to be bad.

You do not need to be a believer to be good.

This applies in ANY sect of ANY religion - your is not the only one - or any shade of theological doubt or denial.

I think we can agree on all that.

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You believe the Earth and everything natural on it, like the rest of the Universe it is in, was made and is being driven by the deity the Abrahamic Hebrews and their followers now, like you, call God.

Fair enough. That's your free choice. Other deities, or interpretions of the same God, are available, of course.

The Earth is an astromomical object of immense but fairly finite age, irrespective of humanity's tiny time on it - <1M years so far so maybe another 2-3M. Irrespective too of the mess humans have made of it within the last millennia - our worst enemies are us, not poor old God.

So why would that God want to destroy the Earth hence everything on it, just to get at the misfits and failures among the humans he evolved into being? If he was going to do that, why are you and I alive now? Why did he not wipe our ancestors out long ago?

If I was a practicing Christian I would reject that divine callousness, would refuse to see God as so petty and cruel. I might see Him judging the bad individuals, yes: I can see the theological point there.

Wholesale destruction of good and bad people and everything else with them? Not by any logical, caring and loving god.

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God will eventually destroy the Earth, or at least anything on it, as part of operating the Universe (when the Sun itself "dies"); but if it holds any life by then it's extremely unlikely to include humans as we know ourselves.

@bystander Yes many have suffered terrible deaths. But only Jesus did NOTHING wrong ever. Only He is God who visited us. He suffered for people who hate him because HE loves us. Would you be tortured for people who hate you? 🙂

@Carazaa
Your Jesus character didn’t even have to face permanent death, because it was god killing itself, or some such nonsense.

@bystander He visited us as a baby born in a manger, had a body like yours, and was tortured until he died. He did it for us. Yes he came back to life like we wil come back to life after Jesus comes if we die before. Don't minimize what he did. It was painful. He didn't have to do that for you, but he did because he doesn't want people to go tp hell for their sins. I think he is coming very soon, maybe this year 2021, maybe 2023, maybe sooner.

@SW-User There are signs in every country, we better heed the warnings before its too late.

@SW-User more raking?

@SW-User Blaming is not helping!