October 30, 2021

Does God ever intervene to help good people?

Assume for a moment that God exists, and created the universe, and thus is omnipotent and omniscient.  Can we deduce anything useful from this?  Let's see.

In watching how methodically the Left/socialists/"progressives" have either taken over or destroyed virtually every good institution in formerly free, enlightened nations, one immediately apparent conclusion is...how utterly predictable it's been.

Indeed, every takeover, every institution or tradition destroyed by the Left *was* predicted by conservative analysts, then immediately dismissed by elites and the Left as paranoia or a conspiracy theory.  

If we could and did predict those events, obviously God did too.  

Now, it's certainly possible that God has no preference as to whether his creations are relatively free, good and happy or if evil and misery rule.  

Free will, right?

But IF--and it's a big if--God favors good, and good outcomes, over bad and evil ones, it seems possible that just when evil is about to deal the final defeat to good folks, God might just wink and slip in a miracle.

Let me offer two examples: First is our own Revolutionary War.  A handful of colonial combatants--reportedly just 3 percent of the population--were facing the most powerful nation on the planet.  By all conventional analysis we shouldn't have prevailed.  But by coincidence Britain's global rival, France, decided to help us.

Totally self-serving, probably, but as close as it was, we likely wouldn't have shaken off British rule without French help.

Second:  Before World War 2, battleships were the ultimate weapon.  Virtually all U.S. Navy ships in the Pacific--including all our battleships and aircraft carriers--were based at Pearl Harbor.  This was known to Japan's military leaders, who realized that it might be possible to sink many while they were anchored and virtually defenseless.

The surprise attack on Sunday morning, December 7th, 1941, sank four of our eight battleships, and seriously damaged the others.  Although six eventually returned to service, some would be out of action for over a year.

With virtually all our battleships out of action, by everything known to military strategists of the day the U.S. would have no chance of taking on the Japanese navy.

But although the surprise attack sank or badly damaged all our battleships, by a miraculous coincidence not a single one of our aircraft carriers was even hit--because all of them were taking part in exercises far from Hawaii.

And as it turned out, for the rest of the war most naval battles in the Pacific were decided by carrier-based aircraft.

What were the chances that every U.S. carrier would be at sea instead of anchored alongside the battleships at Pearl on that Sunday morning?

Wait, I hear the U.S. elites sneering that it was just coincidence.  Ah well.

In any case...even if God sometimes intervenes to help the forces of good, it's clear that He allows a lot of sacrifice and suffering before any Divine intervention.  But still, if He does intervene, even at the last second, to help good people fighting against overwhelming odds, that seems reassuring.

No wonder the bad folks rarely believe.
 

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