[Ezekiel Bathfire]

I was reminded of this eternal puzzle when reading of the death of 6 elderly Christians and two random drivers when God smote the front tire of the bus in which they were traveling.

Eight deaths reported as church bus overturns in Tennessee
A church bus traveling to North Carolina overturned Wednesday in Jefferson County, Tenn., killing at least eight people, injuring 14 others and shutting down both directions of Interstate 40, authorities told NBC News.
The state Highway Patrol said the bus' left front tire blew out as it was traveling east on I-40 east of Knoxville.

The bus, which was carrying 18 people, crossed the median and struck a tractor-trailer and a sport-utility vehicle carrying three people. The bus overturned, and the tractor-trailer caught on fire, the patrol said.

Six people were killed on the bus and one each was killed in the two other vehicles, the Highway Patrol said.

So why?

Did their parents sin? Apparently not:

Joh:9:1: And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
Joh:9:2: And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Joh:9:3: Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Jesus then performs a miracle and the man receives his sight.

Joh:9:3 is pretty unambiguous: God has prepared this man from birth so that God (Jesus) can show His power by curing Him.

It is, as we all know, God Who blinds people and makes them blind from birth: Exodus 4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

And he does this because He hates the blind and lame:

2Sa:5:8: And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

So it is with those who died: God decided to hate them, for no better reason that He is God, and God knows what He is doing, even though we might not.

Now, we have been talking about the blind here. So let's look at why God smites people with a great smitance such that they are brought before His Good Right hand to stand in Judgement before Him. For this we need to turn to Romans:9:14 - 23

Ro:9:14: What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Ro:9:15: For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Ro:9:16: So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Ro:9:17: For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Ro:9:18: Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Ro:9:19: Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Ro:9:20: Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Ro:9:21: Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Ro:9:22: What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Ro:9:23: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

Paul, in Ro:9:23, confirms Jesus' Words in Joh:9:3 - God does it "that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,"

And that is why those people died on the road to Statesville. They were all "Fitted for Destruction" as it was ordained from their birth that this is what should happen so that we might know the power of God.

Our joy must be unbounded in the Glory of The Lord.

[Scott Scenter]

The answer is simple.

God hates retards.

This is very easy to understand if you are a true believer in the majesty of his Christ like nature.

The concept is difficult to understand for many. God has a plan, and part of it has always been the destruction of free will if it gets out of hand. A lot of so called (social) people experience this as what they call evolution, but the fact remains that it is the very will of God and Jesus, and there is no getting around it.

Here are the facts. If you get cancer, it is because God and Jesus determined that you were a sinner after the fact and needed to be removed from the experiment. The shit about losing your hair was an artifact of the doctors who really don't have a clue about what is going on.

Cancer is the way God sends a message that your time is about up. A lot of women get the breast cancer because they have been whores. That is the reality of the church.

Sweet Jesus knows how this works and his works are without proclamation, because they are a mystery.

[Alvin Moss]

You know, the Devil is always working to thwart God's plans and we can't over look that possibility.

Violent attacks against Christians have become commonplace in recent years. It could have been caused by something shot at them by the ATF or some similar armed force of the Devil's people.

Also, I have been on that road and I can tell you that many of the people in that area are drunk on strong whiskey most of the time. They are prone to make kamikaze attacks once they get fired up enough.

[Mistress Cookie]

Re: Why Do Bad things happen to Good People?

I would think it's revealing to us that they are, in actuality, NOT good people (?)

God™ is busy unmasking the hidden sinners and False Prophets all the time. And I THANK HIM!

So when we see something particularly gruesome like this, we can pretty much assume the person did something pretty terrible to bring that down on themselves.

Sometimes God™ just gets fed up, you know?

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

Originally Posted by Alvin Moss

You know, the Devil is always working to thwart God's plans and we can't over look that possibility.

Violent attacks against Christians have become commonplace in recent years. It could have been caused by something shot at them by the ATF or some similar armed force of the Devil's people.

Also, I have been on that road and I can tell you that many of the people in that area are drunk on strong whiskey most of the time. They are prone to make kamikaze attacks once they get fired up enough.

I think you may have hit on something there Brother Moss. In recent times there has emerged something called road rage, particularly in places like California with uncommon amounts of concentrated sin.

I believe God has His ways, and we've all seen baffling cases where rampant sin inexplicably continues for seeming endless amounts of time until one day (for similar inexplicable reasons) - BAM! - the Iron Fist of Jesus finally comes down. It's possible Jesus gets road rage, or perhaps He is just busy tied up with other matters and then focuses on catching up with sinners.

[Mrs. Mary Whitford]

Obama.