I have waited a few days before responding to some recent outrageous remarks by some religious leaders concerning the tragedy Haiti. I wanted to regain my composure lest I say something I would regret. However, after waiting I am still furious. Realizing that Jesus Himself would on occasion be filled with anger because of attitudes of so called religious men, I think I am in excellent company.
First of all, we live in a world where bad things happen to both good and bad people and to blame victims for misfortune is heaping misery upon misery. Something God would never do.
Second, if God was responsible because of something that supposedly happened two hundred years ago, it certainly doesn’t say much about an omnipresent God keeping up with His agenda. God must have been pretty busy elsewhere to just now get around to it.
Third, it says God is pretty sloppy when handing out punishment because there were many missionaries, college students and others on mercy missions to Haiti who perished. They were good people doing what God would want from all of us. What about their parents? These people hardly had made a pact with Satan.
Fourth, it says God is capricious and unthinking and hardly the God presented to us by Jesus when Jesus said, “If you have seen me you have seen the Father.” John 14
With men like these religious people on God’s side, God really doesn’t need any enemies. I have come to believe they and I worship different Gods and I have no desire to meet him anywhere and at any time. I like my Jesus God so much better. No, let me rephrase that. I love my Jesus God so much better. I know there are tears in heaven over this loss.
Written by Roger Bothwell on January 18, 2010
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
Rogerbothwell.org