How should we respond to the shooting at the H/S shooting in Colorado?

[Bible Thumpin n Gun Totin]

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All @Reynolds needed was his Southern wits. The guns were there just to make it look proper.

Now I've got @Reynolds as Buford T Justice in my mind haha

 

[Bible Thumpin n Gun Totin]

If I am in a place and someone comes and shoots the place up and kills a bunch of people while I sat and did nothing. I do not think saying it was Gods will for those people to die. Or that it was Gods soverign desire that that ,an or woman came and killled all those people. Would help my spiritual conscience of love that God gave me when he made me his son, that I could have saved some or many of those people lives if I acted. Nor the thought of facing God and him telling me he put me there because he knew that evil was going to happen. So I could act and help save many people.

That's why I carry my little Fire Dept pager when I'm out and about in my county, even when I'm outside of my fire district. Due to our remoteness my county actually dispatches "any medical responders in the area" in addition to the first due fire department. Some career Firefighters (FF) that don't know what it's like to live out here give Volunteers grief for carrying a pager around, but the career FFs just don't get the lack of manpower in rural areas.

If I'm near a vehicle wreck with injuries I can't just NOT help the patient. And my reasoning is the same as yours. Plus the times when I can't save a patient and they die on me I can try and share the gospel with them if they're not ODed on drugs.

 

[Aaron]

That is NOT correct ! as I tried to explain before- - lets say one of them had gone to the restroom -
he may not have been shot - even though he was in a h/s bar!

As far as asking questions
Did you answer this one?
"Should we Grieve with those who grieve?"

Do you also rejoice with them?

 

[AustinC]

Do you also rejoice with them?

Stupid question.

We grieve because a human life is now dead.

We don't rejoice in sin, but we can eat and drink with sinners, just as Jesus did.

 

[Salty]

and pray for them - as any other sinner
and the penalty of sin - any sin -is death ie spiritual death
Billy Graham's Answer: What is Sin? Are All Sins Equal in God's Eyes?

 

[Salty]

Do you also rejoice with them?

YES - When they repent and accept the Lord Jesus as Saviour.

 

[Aaron]

Stupid question.

Not at all. It provides the context out of which Salty wrested the phrase.

We grieve because a human life is now dead.

Do you roam the streets weeping over the obituaries?

We don't rejoice in sin, but we can eat and drink with sinners, just as Jesus did.

And not all mourning is hallowed.

 

[Aaron]

YES - When they repent and accept the Lord Jesus as Saviour.

And we mourn with them as they mourn their sin. Not all mourning is hallowed.

 

[Aaron]

This past weekend 5 people were killed and 19 injured at a club in Colorado.

Will there be preachers out there giving a message that these folks got what they deserved for the
sinful lifestyle they are/were living?

Do we only mourn over the deaths of innocent?

Should we be glad, the killer did not go to a church?

Should we Grieve with those who grieve?

Should we ask "Why did God allow this?"

A church near this club had those questions:
Colorado Springs LGBT nightclub was a mile from my church | Voice

So, what is your reaction?

We should respond as the disciples were instructed to consider the tower of Siloam. They are not worse sinners, and unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

 

[Salty]

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[Salty]

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