You're Alive Because God Wants You Alive

There are posts on social media that seem like they're really comforting or helpful theology but a lot of times they do more harm than good. Colin discusses one of these posts and talks about what we could say instead.
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[@Legendendear]

One thing doesn't prove the other. Saying "I'm alive because god wants me to be alive" doesn't automatically mean that those who died, died because god wanted them to be dead. There is an enemy at work here and many deaths are his responsibility.

[@TheBibleUncutandUnfiltered]

I once heard a pastor compare God to a cruise ship captain. He's going to make sure the whole boat eventually reaches it's destination, but that doesn't mean he's controlling or causing everything that happens on the boat. There's still a lot of free will for the passengers. Not everything that happens in life is God's doing, even if he can then later find a way to redeem it

[@alexfrog1]

This is an interesting take on God's Perfect Will vs. God's Permissive Will. There is no doubt that all creation is made on purpose and for a purpose. In the referenced post's example, it assumes that the reader understands that God uses all things for good even if it doesn't appear immediately obvious.

[@TheBibleUncutandUnfiltered]

There is a lot of assumption in that post I'd seen. The biggest problem for me was that they didn't say something along the lines of "God can work out for good even the deaths of good people." Instead, they suggested that people live and die solely based on the will of God, and that implies then that God wills or even condones every murder that has ever happened. God's ability to develop a good result from a bad situation is not the same thing as his willing the bad situation. And while that might seem like semantics on paper, it makes a big difference in the real world once people start to think that God wanted bad things to happen instead of believing he can create good out of bad.

[@alexfrog1]

@TheBibleUncutandUnfiltered Amen! May God bless you as you continue your channel!

[@TheBibleUncutandUnfiltered]

@@alexfrog1 Thanks so much!