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God’s Will or Man’s Will?
The Archangels Explain the Difference
When I was growing up, if something bad or sad happened to someone, people often said it was God’s will. The nicer version of that was, “God works in mysterious ways.” Although I can agree, at least in part, to the second saying, since lord knows I don’t always understand why things happen the way they do at times, and I certainly don’t pretend to understand all the mysteries of the universe, I never could understand or agree with the first.
The God I’ve always known is a loving God, so to suggest that when someone dies or gets sick, or befalls something terrible is due to God’s will just doesn’t resonate with me. People have used this saying to justify things they don’t understand. I remember when AIDS hit the scene, and preachers had the gall to say that AIDS was God’s will, punishment and response to homosexuality. I remember wondering who they thought created gay people. Wasn’t it the same God?
Did you ever see the movie, The Kingdom of Heaven, with Orlando Bloom? It was about the “Holy Crusades” and the wars in the Holy Land. Throughout the movie, the people who wanted war kept shouting, “God wills it!” For the life of me, I don’t understand why Christians, Jews, and Muslims can’t just share the Holy land. Why does one religion’s holy spots have to be more holy than another’s? If…
