Rebuilding New Orleans

[yomotalking]

When God judges a city or place it is presumptuous to try to rebuild it.

[dgolvach]

This is all starting to song like one long PINK FLOYD Gloom and Doom Ditty.

Come on you guys it was just a storm!

Dan

[Keith]

I haven't read this thread because I didn't want my post to be influenced by other opinions. To be honest, I haven't thought about rebuilding New Orleans before this.

On one hand, my initial response is NO! Can you imagine the degree of debauchery that would continue and thrive even stronger because of the attitude, "N'awlins will never really be destroyed!" Even in it's diseased devastation, homosexuals still callously celebrate and bars are running with stolen goods. New Orleans was a sinfully wicked city for the most part. Even their politics and law enforcement were crooked! In this light, it's best left as deserted marshland.

On the other hand, it's a major port. Ok, so rebuild the port and only what's necessary to keep the port going.

On the OTHER hand, is rebuilding a place that God may very well have shown His wrath on a good idea???

On the OTHER hand, I'm totally unconcerned with whether or not they rebuild and don't really care. God's will will be fulfilled either way.

I'm going to stop now before I grow a fifth hand....

[Keith]

This is all starting to song like one long PINK FLOYD Gloom and Doom Ditty.

Come on you guys it was just a storm!

Dan

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I respect your right to your opinion, but I completely disagree. It's like the Pharoah in Egypt saying, "Come on guys! They're just frogs! We've always had frogs!"

[nebula]

On one hand, my initial response is NO!  Can you imagine the degree of debauchery that would continue and thrive even stronger because of the attitude, "N'awlins will never really be destroyed!"  Even in it's diseased devastation, homosexuals still callously celebrate and bars are running with stolen goods. 

Yeah, that was my concern, too.

New Orleans was a sinfully wicked city for the most part.  Even their politics and law enforcement were crooked!  In this light, it's best left as deserted marshland.

On the other hand, it's a major port.  Ok, so rebuild the port and only what's necessary to keep the port going. 

I'd vote for rebuilding the port elsewhere - somewhere that is actually above sea level!

After reading those articles about the wetlands . . . I'm all for the wetlands!

[Gerioke]

House of the rising sun has no meaning now.

[dgolvach]

Moses warned Egypt of the SPECIFIC judgements that were to come. I can see the frog thing but the bloody river and first born thing was supernatural. Katrina was well within the natural just like other castastrophies . I didn't here a prophet give a specific warning and even if someone did, its as lame as sayind America will suffer another terrorist attack. You don't need to here God to put that one together. Same with N.O. and its flood.

Dan

[nebula]

Well, I had heard before about major disastors occuring in the US after we acted in a way against Israel. So, as the pull-out from Gaza was occuring, I was fully expecting something to happen. So, if you want to add this hurricane to a whole list of "coincidences" as nothing more than coincidences, then I guess the weather is run by coincedences.

But really, I think this whole debate is a theology issue over whether God would punish, discipline, whatever in this way.

As I read the Bible, I see that God has moved in this way. Remember when the Lord sent a plague against the people of Israel to punish King David for taking the census?

Even in the NT, the Lord took the lives of Ananias and Saphira for lying to the Holy Spirit, and He took the life of King Herod when the people began to worship him as a god.

As far as how the Lord judges, we can't expect things to occur the same way they did before - can you name any way that the Lord followed the same methods or the same pattern? Each case is handled as it needs to be handled. If people don't listen, that's on their head.

As far as prophecying the event beforehand, I have one question to ask: Do you believe that there are prophets on Earth this day?

[Micah68]

Moses warned Egypt of the SPECIFIC judgements that were to come. I can see the frog thing but the bloody river and first born thing was supernatural. Katrina was well within the natural just like other castastrophies . I didn't here a prophet give a specific warning and even if someone did, its as lame as sayind America will suffer another terrorist attack. You don't need to here God to put that one together. Same with N.O. and its flood.

Dan

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God's judgments will always be able to be explained away by the natural mind because the natural mind only sees what it want to see. It does not want to be revealed. Why do you think Pharaoh kept changing his mind about letting Israel go? It's very easy to explain away a plague of locusts or other such things. "A strong east wind brought the frogs. A strange phenomenon caused the darkness. An earthquake caused the Red Sea to open." Blah, blah, blah. Well, in the end God had His way, didn't he? And God will have His way again. He means to be reverenced and obeyed. He can't let the evil continue any more. It's too out of hand. It's the time of the harvest. The tares will be bundled into one area and the wheat will be gathered into the barn. Continue watching to see what God has in store for tares. In case you haven't noticed, most of the O.T. is judgment and a good portion of the N.T. is also judgment. This earth belongs to God and He's going to take it back.

[jacob]

New Orleans should be rebuilt again. It's incorrect to belive most people that have left would love living in the assighned city they are being sent to for relief. Of course they will apply for jobs in their new area but has anyone one heard of an overabundance of employment opportunities lately. A rebuilding of New Orleans can promise many skilled and unskilled jobs with hands on apprentanceship opening in all kinds of fields from laborers to architects, electricians to excavating. It is a rare chance to start with a fairly clean slate.