just wandering where God was on 9/11

[Floatingaxe]

God was mourning along with the world about that disaster. It wasn't his doing, but the devil's, and it was on the devil's turf, so if you want to blame anyone, blame Old Slewfoot.

[nebula]

God was probably having a cup of coffee at that time

I really, really, really hope you don't mean this.

[other one]

i am just wandering what anyone thinks God was doing during 9/11

Boman, on the morning that Tim McVey blew up the Federal Building here in Oklahome City, I was scheduled to be across the street at the time that the bomb went off. I'd have been standing under that tree you all heard so much about waiting for a parking place to open up that a night person almost always pulled out of shortly after 9:00am. Had I been there most likely I'd not have been alive long enough to even see the building fall.

On the way to work I had this feeling that something was terribly wrong and my team needed to change our plans for the day. One of my team mates had the same feeling so we changed our plans for the day and decided to have a team meeting about three miles away.

I still won't discuss that day with anyone in person for I don't like crying in public.....

For two years I could not understand why God would warn me not to go there and still let those 25 little kids be in the building and die the way that they did, and it nearly drove me over the edge. I got angry and billigerant demanded to know why over and over until one night I got very close to turning my back on Him. I finally jsut calmed down and told him I was at my wits end and could not go on the way we had been.... it was just too much. I asked again why, and for the second time in my life God told me it simply was none of my business. He told me I'd understand later, but for now and I quote, "It's really none of your business."

So I would offer to you the anwer I got from that day. He was there watching over people, and those that did not make it through that day are just gone, and at this time in history, it's really none of your business.... you'll understand later.

Well I still can't go down to the memorial without going to peices, but I'll not ask why until I understand for myself..... He told me that someday I would, and I really think you will understand too.

Sam

[other one]

God was probably having a cup of coffee at that time

I really, really, really hope you don't mean this.

gee, I hope people don't get the one confused with the other one...

[nebula]

Don't worry, I know it's not you.

[ayin jade]

Boman, on the morning that Tim McVey blew up the Federal Building here in Oklahome City, I was scheduled to be across the street at the time that the bomb went off.

Hugs Sam. I kinda understand. We had acts of brutal violence happen in our family, done by evil people, and we too had to get a proper perspective on those actions. In the end, it is just about trusting in Him, as you have done with His answer to you. God bless you.

[RustyAngeL]

God was right there. And Jade is right, there could have been thousands more killed. If those attacks had happened 45 minutes later those buildings would have been full and thousands more would have died. It was a horrifying day for us, and God wept just as we did I'm sure.

[jmwhalen]

1. The same place He was when He "stood by and watched" the most beautiful man that ever walked the face of the earth, who knew no sin( 2 Cor. 5:21; Hebrews 4:15,7:26; 1 John 3:5; Luke 23:4; John 18:38,19:4-6), His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, be mocked, beaten, spit upon..............and crucified, for our sake. How many parents would do the same if they saw the same happen to their son(or daughter)?

The cross of the Lord Jesus Christ is many things to many people, but one thing it is not is a tolerance for sin.

Since sin is ultimately against the Lord God, i.e., He is "the injured party", I would ask believers/unbelievers who lie, cheat, steal, have affairs, divorce, have evil thoughts, fail to help someone in need........................................................................,...

.......("you know", sin in what we do, what we don't do, how we think, who we are......), and thus injure others, and sin against the LORD God, where was God?

"For all have sinned(emphasis mine), and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23

Are we all willing to take our deserved, righteous judgment right now?

The LORD God is telling all of us, including myself, to shut our big, fat, hypocritical, self-righteous mouths, as it is wrritten,(not suggested),

"...that every mouth may be stopped(emphasis mine-"shut up"), and all the world may become guilty (emphasis mine)before God..."(Romans 3:19),

and thank Him for His grace, "....the God of all grace..."(1 Peter 5:10).

2. Preparing sticks to beat people like myself who asked this self-righteous, hypocritical question(and I did ask this question, and still do).

In Christ and with Christ,

John M. Whalen

[irishcowboy]

i am just wandering what anyone thinks God was doing during 9/11

He was with my cousin and her husband, as he was trying to get out the door to go to a meeting in the first tower, when my cousin turned on the TV, as he was leaving, and hollered at him to look at the TV... he shut the door, and watched TV the rest of the day....

He was with the son and partner of the owner of the TrueValue here in town, as they had just left the trade center (barely) as the plane crashed into it.....

He was with the man with the cell phone that was trapped in a pocket under all the rubble...

He was with the families of those that were making calls on their cell phones from the planes, comforting them....

He was with His Children on the planes, holding them in His Loving arms as they began their journey home...

He was with me, as I talked to Him lifting those up that were being injured and killed that day...

He was with my son, as he walked through the school on his first day at a new school...

He was busy answering prayers, for all those that chose to speak to Him....

He was busy with some as they found their way out of the towers to safety...

and He still had time to work other "Miricles" through out this world, that we have turned a blind eye towards.

God is a Gentleman.... and will not interfer where He is not wanted.... so God is allowing us to destroy our very world that we live in, that supports our lives with oxygen, nitrogen, water, food, shelter.... we are destroying this earth with our very own sins.....

God is still here, and will remain with those that seek His face....

if a man abides in Me, and I in him............he will produce much fruit.......with out Me, he can do nothing.......

mike

[Christ's Free Servant]

Where was God on 9/11? Right there. Did he just allow it - his permissive will? Or, was he in it?

I think so many times we like to believe that God would not be in something like this, but would only allow it, just as he allows evil to exist in the world right now. But, is that Biblically sound theology? I mean, certainly God did not cause the suffering of Job, but he is the one who brought Job to Satan's attention. He was basically inviting Satan to test Job, but only within the perimeters that God allowed. The Bible says that the Jesus was led of the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of Satan. God gave Paul a messenger of Satan - a thorn in the flesh, and when Paul asked for it to be removed, God said his grace was sufficient. So, certainly God not only permits bad things to happen, but sometimes it is his design for us in order to make us who we are or to perhaps discipline us for the purpose of producing obedience.

Where was God on 9/11? The same place he was when he formed me in the womb of my mother and placed me in the family he chose for me - the home of an abusive father and an emotionally neglectful mother. Psalm 139 says that even before I was born God knew me and he knit me together in my mother's womb and all the days ordained for me were in his book before one of them came into being. I used to struggle so much with why God would allow this to happen to me. I used to think the way as most, that God just allowed it because he allows sin in the world, but then I had to come to grips with Psalm 139 and how he knit me together in that mother's womb and he said I was fearfully and wonderfully made. So, I either had to believe that God was totally and completely involved in every aspect of my life from beginning to end and that it had a purpose or I had to accept that this God who says he loves me stood by and watched the abuse and did nothing. I think I used to believe that God was powerless. That is why I was always afraid. But, when I realized his Sovereignty over all things and that nothing happens that does not happen for a purpose, then I was at peace.

I, personally, believe God was in what happened on 9/11. I believe it was his discipline upon our nation because we were straying from God, and the purpose of it was to bring us to repentance, but it did not get those results. I also believe stronger doses of God's discipline await us in the very near future, because God is a jealous God, he is a loving and a merciful and a compassionate God and he is slow to anger and abounding in love, but he wants so much for all of us to come to repentance that just like a loving father must discipline his children, God must discipline us. I believe that is what was happening on 9/11.