Aurora: Love Will Prevail
July 25, 2012 at 8:11 pm in Blog, Uncategorized by Phillip Dennis 13 Comments
Written by Janine Turner
God is love, and as Jesus reveals in the Bible, the greatest commandment is to love one another because love heals. Love is the engine that instills true dignity into the human race. In this time of the Aurora tragedy, the healing power of love will prevail.
America and Americans are familiar with this edict. Through many failings, America and Americans have risen to higher ground by embracing the innate goodness of righteousness and love. This has been the inherited blessing of the American people — seeking the truth, the light, and the right thing to do, which is enveloped in the principle of love.
Arising out of the ashes of sorrow of the massacre in Aurora are stories of bravery and brotherhood. God does not create evil, but God is there in the midst of evil. Why there is evil, we do not know. We do know that love is the saving grace — the grace that is manifested by God’s love and our love for one another.
As the families of the victims walk through the valley of the shadow of death, may we aid in their recovery with prayers for their healing. May we honor them by exhibiting that same healing power of love in our everyday lives. May we seek to live, and leave, a legacy that reflects such beauty.
Originally posted at PJMedia.com
To the families of the Aurora Tragedy, My heart and prays go out to you in your time of grief. GOD will help you through this painful time.
There. Is. No. God.
there is a GOD you just don’t know HIM.
Thank you Tiffany – perfect response – and full of truth.
your welcome. I was just tired of people saying there is NO GOD. Those people just need to go to church and then they will know What we people who believe in GOD have been saying along.
they also need to read the HOLY BIBLE. and to those who think that it is just a stupid book you are wrong, well if you read the HOLY BIBLE you might be interested to learn more.
Contrary to popular belief atheist and agnostics commonly are more informed about religion than those blindly continuing to practicing the archaic traditions as discovered by a Pew Research Survey (http://www.pewforum.org/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx). Most of them have been to church, read the bible, actually thought extensively about the subject (didn’t blindly believe everything said by people in the positions of church leadership -feel free to research sociology and group dynamics for more information on what exactly that means), and still found it to be hogwash.
Then why are you here?
Brotherman
Thank you Janine for that love-ly editorial. I enjoy your comments on Fox.
Stephen has a good point, but why are we having a religious debate here? Seriously, we can’t let someone bring up God without throwing out “There. is. no. god.” We have someone (teaswiller) who is just looking for a fight. People should just ignore him. Tolerance goes both ways, Athiests and agnostics (which I am) need to stop picking fights as do many believers. But I have to ask, isn’t this a Tea Party site. Is religion in the platform for the Tea Party? I guess that’s why I’m a Libertarian. I would defend the rights of the believer and non-believer.
To Ryan, I do appreciate your respectful tone and I would agree that everyone has a right to their opinion however everyone’s opinion is not right. Being tolerant of some one or something is not really a positive word anyway. The word tolerate or tolerance means to endure something, to allow an opinion opposite of your own to exist without hindrance, or to put up with. This brings a connotation of arrogance not of getting along with others.
The bible says patience is a virtue, and I am the most intolerant of sin. I respect your right to believe what you will but I would challenge you to actually read the bible and personally check it claims and see for yourself if it be true. The end result being wrong on this issue will result in destruction.
Every Atheist, Agnostic, and garden variety non-believer, will believe one second after death. This is to late to avoid judgement for we can only accept Christ on this side of eternity. I beseech you to at least read for yourself, a good book to look at is The Case for Christ by Lee Stroble, he was an Atheistic legal journalist for the Chicago Tribune I believe and set out to once and for all prove that the claims of the bible were false especially the claims of and for Christ. He became a believer. I pray that you at least accept the challenge and take the journey. Peace to you Dale
I have read the bible, front to back. And I attended church for many years, was confirmed and all that. Why is it christian believers always assume that non-believers have never read the bible. To your second point on tolerance, what is more positive, tolerance or intolerance? I suppose it depends on the context. Tolerating a child rapist is an example of the type of tolerance we shouldn’t tolerate. Tolerance of one’s individual liberties without coercian from a group’s theology is the type I speak of. Christians need to be tolerant of Muslims, Muslims tolerant of Christians, Protestants tolerant of Catholics, and Christians tolerant of nonbelievers… and vice versa. You already have a stereotype that all athiests and agnostics are out to rid society of religion. Quite the opposite, I stand for religious rights even though I’m not religious. I am against imposing government on religion in all forms, and vice versa. I stand behind the Catholics and their fight against ObamaCare pushing contraception on their organizations. I see nothing wrong with calling the school “Holiday Festivities” the “Christmas Pageant.” On the other hand, I’m for gay marriage (no, I’m not gay) because there’s a difference between being married in God’s eyes and that by the state. Now, if the government ever tries to force churches to marry gay people, I’ll stand behind the churches. That’s the separation of church and state. Legislating morality is not the solution. If someone is only hurting themselves, in your opinion, then there’s no need for it to be illegal. Thomas Jefferson has some interesting letters on this matter, yet Christians have long hi-jacked our forefathers as being theocratic in nature. As for your final point, when I die, if I’m at the pearly gates and am turned away for simply not believing, then that’s an unjust God. If a man can be evil all his life and sincerely repent at the last minute and get a free pass while a man who leads a good life and simply never believes is sent to hell for eternity, that is no God of mine.
First I would like to say to the families of the victims I pray that the God of all comfort and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ through His Holy Spirit bring comfort to those who believe and draw those who don’t into relationship with Him by the power of Christs redemptive sacrifice for sin.
To Janine Turner, I love your post and agree with you that we need to love others and bring the glorious light of Christ back to our great nation. We do know where evil comes from, it comes from the heart of sinful man and is influenced by the enemy of our souls that dragon, and serpent from old, Lucifer, The Devil, Satan and his minions the demons of hell.
If we ignore the presence of evil or the where and why of it we cannot love those who are lost. For until we accept Christ provision for the forgiveness of sin we ourselves are bound up in sin and in some it leads to evil. If we do not view the lost as being hopelessly in salved to sin and on the wide road that leads to destruction in Hell, we will never love them enough to present the truth of the Gospel.