08-31-2005, 08:33 AM
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Blanco asked residents to spend Wednesday in prayer.
"That would be the best thing to calm our spirits and thank our Lord that we are survivors," she said.
[/ QUOTE ]I suspect many Christians will, indeed, give prayers of thanks. One might ask why God allowed the destruction in the first place, and I think the standard answer is that God simply lets things happen without interfering, or something along those lines. If that's the case, why offer thanks to God for survival -- God did not have a hand in that, he was just letting things happen?
Blanco asked residents to spend Wednesday in prayer.
"That would be the best thing to calm our spirits and thank our Lord that we are survivors," she said.
[/ QUOTE ]I suspect many Christians will, indeed, give prayers of thanks. One might ask why God allowed the destruction in the first place, and I think the standard answer is that God simply lets things happen without interfering, or something along those lines. If that's the case, why offer thanks to God for survival -- God did not have a hand in that, he was just letting things happen?