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Wonder why someone NOT disabled didn't bash the killers skull in with something
like the always available FIRE EXTINGUISHER.
Better yet blast 'em in the face with the gas/powder/whatever THEN bash his skull in.
But then I guess I feel that way because I'm trained to react.
React or die.
So many sheeple, so few foxes.
That's a racist site, just so you know.
About 312,000. But you have to remember, the number one victim of radical Muslim violence isn't non-Muslims, it's Muslims who aren't living up to the depraved "standards" of the radicals.
We can ask what the kill count would have been had the killer had a gun to use. But unless you're supposed to have one, they are very, very difficult to get in Japan.
Sure it is, God even said he created evil.
This is Sunday school theology. Sure you really want to stick to it?this is the world man created without God. He told God that he could do things better his way.....Its an object lesson...are we getting it yet?
I honestly believe there's a true commonality in their character, and it ain't all that complimentary.
Western media called ONLY Muslims crimes as "terrorist attack" .
Western media called ONLY Muslims crimes as "terrorist attack" .
Whoever/whatever they others did , remain "horrible crime"
In context, this scripture makes more sense that simply quoting the verse in isolation.
True to prophesy, Judah and Jerusalem were to be desolated, without human inhabitant, for 70 years. However, Jehovah declared through Isaiah and Ezekiel that the city would be rebuilt and the land inhabited at the precise time that he had foretold! This was an amazing prediction. Why? Because Babylon had the reputation of never freeing her prisoners. (Isaiah 14:4, 15-17) So who could possibly liberate these captives? Who could overthrow mighty Babylon, with her colossal walls and river-defense system?
Jehovah could! And he said that he would. (Isa 44:27, 28)
"At the time Cyrus moved against Babylon, its citizens felt very safe and secure. Their city was surrounded by a deep and broad protective moat, formed by the Euphrates River. Where the river ran through the city, there was a continuous quay along the east bank of the river. To separate it from the city, Nebuchadnezzar built what he called “a great wall, which like a mountain cannot be moved . . . Its head [he] raised mountain high.” This wall had gates with huge copper doors. To enter them, one had to climb up the slope from the river’s edge. Babylon’s prisoners despaired of ever being set free!
But not those Jewish captives who had faith in Jehovah! Through his prophets, God had promised to liberate them. How did God fulfill his promise? Cyrus ordered his armies to divert the Euphrates River at a point several miles north of Babylon. Thus, the city’s chief defense was turned into a relatively dry riverbed. On the crucial night, carousing revelers in Babylon carelessly left open the two-leaved doors along the Euphrates waterfront. Jehovah did not literally break the copper doors in pieces; nor did he cut down the iron bars that closed them, but his marvelous maneuvering to keep them open and unbarred had the same effect. Babylon’s walls were useless. Cyrus’ troops did not have to scale them to get inside. Jehovah went before Cyrus, smoothing out “the swells of land,” all obstacles disappeared. Isaiah was proved to be God’s true messenger.
When Cyrus had complete control of the city, all its treasures fell into his hands, including those hidden in dark, concealed rooms. Why did Jehovah God do this for Cyrus? In order that he would know that Jehovah, ‘the One calling him by his name,’ is the God of true prophecy and the Sovereign Lord of the universe. He would know that God had arranged for him to come to power to liberate His people, Israel.
Now read Jehovah’s words to Cyrus in context: “For the sake of my servant Jacob and of Israel my chosen one, I even proceeded to call you by your name; I proceeded to give you a name of honor, although you did not know me. I am Jehovah, and there is no one else. With the exception of me there is no God. I shall closely gird you, although you have not known me, in order that people may know from the rising of the sun and from its setting that there is none besides me. I am Jehovah, and there is no one else. Forming light and creating darkness, making peace [that is, for his exiled people] and creating calamity [for Babylon], I, Jehovah, am doing all these things.” (Isaiah 45:4-7)
Cyrus owed his conquest of Babylon to Jehovah, for He it was who had strengthened him to carry out His delight against that wicked city and free His captive people. In doing this, God called upon his heavens to shower down righteous influences or forces. He called upon his earth to open up and produce righteous events and salvation for his exiled people. And his figurative heavens and earth responded to this command. (Isaiah 45:8) More than a hundred years after his death, Isaiah was shown to be Jehovah’s true messenger!" (Insight Volumes)
If you take that scripture literally then James 1:13 is a lie. The word "evil" in this verse in some translations is misleading. It can also be more correctly rendered as "calamity", "adversity" or "harm". God caused "calamity" or "adversity" for Babylon. God does not bring calamity on anyone but his enemies and only when it is in line with his purpose to do so. (Matthew 5:44-45)
If you fail to understand what happened in Eden, then you fail to understand the purpose of Christ's sacrifice or the necessity of the kingdom of God.
What Sunday School did you go to?
