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8月13日 What's the pointWhat’s the point | Over the weekend, services were held to remember Madeline McCann, the four year old girl who disappeared whilst on a family holiday in Portugal over 100 days ago, as well as other missing children (see Prayers to mark missing Madeline, BBC News). Now I have no reason to doubt the sincerity of all those involved in these services and the tremendous amount of good this must have done for her parents to know that people (and God) cares about their plight, but did anyone stop to think about the point of actually doing this... |
I mean, prayers are being said at this time to a God who is believed to be capable of doing something to help the McCanns, and maybe even guide the police in finding Madeline. But if so, the question surely begs as to why God did not prevent her being taken in the first place. Bearing in mind that in the Judeo-Christian tradition this is the God who parted the Red Sea, who caused the walls of Jericho to fall down and who raised the dead on several occaisions... one wonders why this God could not have prevented one small little girl from being taken from her room... My point is this - If you believe God can do something now, then why not before? One also has to question the value of praying to a God who is traditionally believed to be all-knowing... I mean, if God saw Madeline being taken, then God surely knows where she is and who did this. Again, we are dealing here with a God who has revealed knowledge to people in the past, and who many people believe still speaks today. So the question begs again, if God knows... why is God not revealing this to people? So it seems we are left with the following: > If God could have prevented Madeline from being taken, knows where she is, but chooses not to 'get involved' - then what is the point of praying to God about all this? or... > If God cannot do anything, does not know where she is and does not know who took her - again, what is the point of praying to God about this situation? And if God does not know anything about where Madeline is, I would argue that a far more productive thing to do might be to simply write a letter of support to the McCann's - rather than simply sitting around in church telling God about it! 引用通告此日志的引用通告 URL 是： http://thatrswebsite.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!945BF0E09153BCEC!293.trak 引用此项的网络日志
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