| Take care what you thank God for. -
01-02-2008, 02:08 AM
The old and true story of an airplane passenger thanking God, after they happened to change seats with someone else on the plane.... Whereupon, the plane crashed, and the passenger they changed seats with, perished, and the person who traded seats with that passenger survived, to thank God...
What this implies is that God chose to perish the other passenger and spare the survivor...
When the likelihood is it was just a simple coincidence, and God did not intervene to save the surviving passenger's life and take the other...
The same principle applies to a lot of similar such turns of fate and coincidence.
Conclusion: God did not favor the surviving passenger and disfavor the perished one.
Albeit, it's fine to thank God under such circumstances, but important to understand what the event does and does not mean, relative to 'divine intervention'.
Best regards,
- RP
(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words. "All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus "Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein "Particles give me a headache." - Ibid |