(October 27, 2017 at 8:40 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: To clarify though, I don't believe God "causes" any of those things you mentioned, Possi. They are caused by human beings using their free will to hurt others, or they are caused by nature. God allows those things to happen by not divinely intervening in our world or in our actions to stop them, but He doesn't cause them.
Sorry if someone has already asked you this (there are a lot of pages in this thread that I haven't gone over), but how do you determine if any specific thing is 'caused' by God or not? If you believe that God intervenes in the world via miracles, is that the only way he intervenes, or does he cause other things to happen as well, and how do you tell the difference between a stroke of unbelievable luck and God intervening?
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