Free Will

Evil?
I like the free will argument.
Yeah it's all about the free will, and choices.
G wants us to be able to choose freely.
In fact it's so important to G, that he allowed
nineteen men to freely choose to end all possibility of choice
for about three thousand other people.
(And we may never know how many Afghan and Iraqi
lives have since been lost as a direct result of
the actions of those nineteen men.)
Though I am pretty certain that had any one
of those three thousand
been allowed a glimpse of the future
they would have exercised their free will
and stayed away from the towers that morning.
And, perhaps, freely exercised their choice to tell others to do the same.
Or perhaps they might have hunted down those nineteen sorry sons a bitches,
and shot them for the mad dogs they were.

But the three thousand were not allowed the freedom to make that choice.
Unlike the nineteen,
they were given no choice in the matter at all.
 
All because G,
who loves us,
and wants a personal relationship with us,
gave us free will.
And the free will of the few outweighs the free will of the many.

The lord giveth, and the lord taketh away.
Perhaps it would have been better, in this case, had the lord simply taken away...

blessed be the name of the lord.

Random

If a single person survives a horrific plane crash which kills the other two hundred people on that plane, that is not a miracle, that is pure luck, or random chance.

However, if a plane should plunge into the ocean from 35,000 feet, and everyone is found alive and well floating quietly in the ocean, THAT would qualify as a miracle.

The greatest miracle of all would be that no planes ever fall out of the sky.