jackvincent
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How might these relate to one another?
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God's Infinite Love and Hiroshima
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It taught mankind the horrors of nuclear war and a drive to prevent it from happening ever again.
God does not do evil, Satan was driving that bus!
ronandcarol
ronandcarol
And God let Satan act? How merciful of Him; sending a 100 thousand Japs to Paradise in two flashes. And who does the dirty job? Poor Old Nick, as usual. So unfair!
Sitting in the woods looking up at the night sky and this thread -- what is the connection?
Thief
Rogue Theologian
God gave Man dominion
that's as far as it goes
They are all part of the greatest object lesson that a Creator could ever give to his intelligent creation. When humankind decided that they wanted to decide things for themselves, independent of their Creator, they chose to follow the promptings of a malicious liar who said they would be better off deciding for themselves what was good and bad. The only way for God to demonstrate the folly of that course was to allow them to take it without his intervention. They would soon see that following their own selfish decisions, never would prove to be beneficial for anyone. Humans were responsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki....not God.
We must also remember that to God, death is completely reversible. He is the giver of life and can restore it just as easily if he chooses.
The only boogy-men in this whole ugly picture is man and the inept lying god they chose to believe.
At the end of this object lesson, humans will have proven beyond a shadow of doubt that they cannot rule themselves successfully without God. Many of us have already come to this conclusion and are looking forward to its finale. (Revelation 21:2-4)
What we lost at the beginning, will be restored in the end (Isaiah 55:11).....and precedents will have been set for all time to come, so that free will can never be abused again. Sounds fair to me. (Isaiah 65:17)
Considering that it almost happened between the US & the USSR, I'd say we're not out of the woods.
Actually, that's part of it all too.
Well, could Hiroshima be part of why it was only an 'almost'?
I'm not ready to be confident that we're past intentional or accidental nuclear war.
It will take ongoing thoughtful planning to avoid it.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
We're screwed, then.
Don't worry, nukes are a hoax anyway. Poor Japs were just burned with phosphorous.
God isn't responsible.
He just decided to sit by and do nothing, as god does.
If God intervened, the object lesson is ruined. We are reaping what we have sown.
The Creator wants us to see and experience the full extent of our collective decision to do things "our" way. How is that working for us? Do we want to do what we want, but just avoid the consequences? Or is it more a case of 'damn' the consequences?
If human beings can even conceive of such heinous weaponry, let alone unleash it on others humans, what does that say about what we as a race, alienated from God, are capable of doing to each other....and to the only 'home' we have?
Do you think for one moment that our Creator would sanction these weapons for use by megalomaniacs who just want to prove that they are more powerful? Hasn't his law always been "thou shalt not kill"? Who abides by that law? Imagine if we all did !?
So called "Christian" nations developed and used these weapons....what does that tell us? That they were "Christians" in name only. No one wins a nuclear war. Everyone loses.
Chernobyl and Fukushima prove that even accidents at nuclear power plants can render vast areas of land and sea, uninhabitable for decades, if not centuries. Why use nuclear power when these events prove how dangerous it is? I think we know why.
If you can't see what is obvious to many, then I believe that you have missed the point entirely.
IMO, they don't relate. Man dropped the bombs, not God.
So God created an imperfect man that creates wars. He also created a stubborn Japanese government that didn't want to surrender until after two of their cities were nuked. Hmmm... they don't talk about "fear of God" for nothing!
No, actually, he created perfect humans with free will. The decision to create war was man's not God's. The knowledge of good and evil was kept from humans initially because God knew it would not benefit them in any way. But taking that knowledge against God's only command, abusing the free will he had given them, placed them on a path to ruin. Man hasn't stopped finding excuses to kill ever since.
The Bible warns against pride, does it not? In Japanese culture, it was the greatest human failure to 'lose face' (be humiliated)....and the greatest act of valor to die for the Emperor. Those were very dangerous attributes to bring into a war.
The fact that it was so called "Christian" nations who developed those nuclear weapons, and then unleashed them on human beings, shows that Christ was never in their thoughts, let alone their churches.
Indeed......the Bible indicates that there is a judgment coming that no one will be able to avoid. (Hebrews 10:26-31)
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What was kept from humans? The knowledge that there are good things and evil things, or the knowledge about which things are good and which things are evil?