This is why I can't believe their is a God: BOY KILLED IN CHRISTMAS PARADE?

Question

PLANT CITY, Florida (AP) -- A 9-year-old boy died after being run over by a church float in a Christmas parade.

Jordan Hayes was walking alongside the float, handing out beads and candy, when his foot was caught by a wheel and he fell under the float Friday night, said Police Chief Bill McDaniel.

Parade watchers shouted at the driver to back up, but the pickup truck pulling the Greater Heights Family Worship Center float ran over Jordan a second time. The driver is Jordan's cousin, authorities said.

Jordan, of Inverness, Florida, had been in Plant City visiting a brother.

Go ahead, tell me how God let this happen. I'm all ears.
"This is a tragedy that defies words," McDaniel said. "This was supposed to be a time of celebration and joy, but it has turned into a terrible tragedy."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/12/08/saturday/index.html

Answer 1

What a tragedy. This sort of thing can only make sense if you come to the realization that there is no god.

Answer 2

Thou shalt not kill actually means murder. ie don't go up to your neighbor or to another country and murder someone. It doesn't mean no capital punishment, it doesn't end all wars, it means YOU the individual are not to put a person to death. Yeah, I love living here in Kuwait and all my hippie fellow Americans singing the song of "let's leave Iraq, b/c there were no weapons of mass destruction and Iraq will be better without us." I didn't support the invasion from day one, but I do believe in cleaning up my own mess, and helping others in need. And if we would simply pull out of Iraq right now, the insurgents will take over, kill thousands of innocent people and life would be just as horrible for the "other" religious group as it was under Saddam. But you can understand the issue with Iran. That's good... because I'm way more worried about living within missile striking distance from Iran than I am from Iraq... What ever happened to helping those who cannot help themselves and helping others before yourself?

Answer 3

Yes this is a tragedy, but it is not God's fault. Where were the adults in this parade? Why was the child walking that close to the float? And backing up the driver ran over the child again? Who's smart idea was that one?

Answer 4

You do understand that the believers will give you one answer, the non-believers another. Was the boy used as an organ donor? Did his death save lives? Bad things happen. Belief in a deity is a personal choice - either you believe or you don't.

Answer 5

God is not in the business of "micromanaging" everyones life. Humanity consistently blames God for evil and suffering in the world. But it is not God who is to blame. The responsibility rests squarely on us for our decision to reject His guidance and choose a life of sin—and on Satan for his deception of humanity.



The good news is that God has not given up on mankind. Just as He allowed Adam and Eve the freedom to choose, so He lets the nations and the nations' inhabitants go their own way. He allows the world to suffer to teach us we cannot find lasting peace, security and contentment without Him.



We are learning the hard lesson that we cannot rightly govern ourselves apart from God and His laws. The eventual result of our efforts is that, just before Jesus returns to earth, humanity will teeter on the brink of annihilation. "If that time of troubles were not cut short, no living thing could survive" (Matthew 24:22, Revised English Bible).

Answer 6

Maybe God new this kid was a future Hitler in the making, and God was like "I'm not letting this happen again".... and SPLAT! the kid is gone during a joyous occasion.... (JK, I just wanted to say something different from others...)

Answer 7

What a tragedy , I don't know if it's right to push religious views when we should be feeling sorry this happened, but you asked.

Christmas is a pagan holiday ,so if Christians obeyed the bible they would not have been celebrating this event ,& this accident would not have happened.

How can you blame God becase those who claim to follow the bible go against it's teachings ?

Answer 8

You can rest assured that boy is in heaven.



theses are the reasons people die.



God knows they are ready for him so he takes them away from this world.



2 they dwell in their own sin and God knows they will never change, so he allows their own actions to be their downfall.



3, Stupidity.



for example if a person has lung cancer, and is dieing from it, It is their fault that they smoked and damaged their lungs to the point of their own destruction.



We as humans beings have polluted our air thus increasing disease and famine, leading to many deaths



Mankind also dwells in war affected millions of ppl.



And God has said after the flood that He will not interfere with mans Actions no matter how wikid they are. and that he would never flood thee entire world with water any more thus he made the rainbow to remind humanity of his promise.



What a Man shall sow, so shall he reap.





Do not be afraid for that boy is with God. :)

Answer 9

Yes there is a god. But have you heard of accidents? Hey god can't be there in all moments. Some religions say that everybody has their future written and I think that that's true. But hey everybody has a different point of view, and if yours it's different that's ok. That's why there is so many religions. And i'm open to hear new points of view.

Answer 10

God doesn't control everything !

Having said that, if he had people praying for him, in faith, for his life and so on, that event could have been prevented.



Psalm 91:11 "For He will charge his angels to guard you wherever you go" [that particular claimable promise is for the person who lives in the shelter of the Most High, others relate to protection for the kids of parents]"

Answer 11

And if the hundreds of billions of people who ever lived were still alive, and all the laws of nature controlled by God, including your free will, you'd be writing e-mails to God complaining that you want the universe to be chaotic and random.



Some people won't be happy with anything.

Answer 12

This would be tragic if this was the end, but it isn't. Jordan is in Heaven! Praise God!

Answer 13

Just imagine all the muslims that go to mecca, just to be killed in a stampede of religious fervor.

Answer 14

So if a person dies you interpret that there is no God. Does that mean if a person wins a lottery that there is? I am simply saying there is more to theology than this line of over simplified reasoning.

Answer 15

God doesnt work in this way, unfortunate as it may be in some cases such as this. I believe one of Gods greatest gifts is also our greatest burden, free will.



When we were banished from the garden of Eden we received knowledge. That included the knowledge of pain, death, and loss. You might say we brought this type of pain on ourselves. God still loves us, but we are free to live our lives and make mistakes that sometimes result in the death of a 9 year old boy. Tragic as it may be.

Answer 16

I am sure the driver feels just terrible. He will have to live with that the rest of his life. Accidents and mistakes happen. And us caught within the material world morass won't understand why.

Answer 17

Gods are funny that way... lots of people have died over the years under their watch... they say that life is sacred, but perhaps it's not *too* sacred. Just a guess!



Hey, fabytx, what do you mean god can't be there at all moments? Was he momentarily distracted? C'mon, either he's omnipresent or he's not...

Answer 18

NO for time immortal people have dies you and I atre guaranteed of dying. This boy is in heaven I am going to heaven open your heart and mind he wants you there too!

Answer 19

im a Christian ok(if u have a prob with that). and what i think is God said it was his time to come home.thats what my family said when i my grandma died in a carwreck.

Answer 20

blame God for everything!!it seems like you dont want to believe and you are looking for some vision or dramatic experience/occurance to convince you about God. people are born people die wether young or old

Answer 21

i ask the same question after watching my mom suffer from cancer and die in front of me...its not in our hands

Answer 22

god probably needed him in heaven

Answer 23

Uhh..I know it sounds tragic but let's review. You said "This is why I can't believe there is a god." Then after your rant you say, "tell me how God let this happen." This belief, whatever it is, sounds illogical.

Answer 24

Perhaps this comes from a misunderstanding of death....as it is written, "14Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. " (Heb 2)

Answer 25

he was not driving the float neither did he push the kid under it.

you do best stop trying to blame god for everything and look closer.Is he responsible for your cd not recording too?the bad weather?the wife beaters in this world?the child abusers? endless list.....

Answer 26

you truly have a distorted view.

GOD made man like Himself.

then man woman SIN.

they comitted high treason.

by their loyality.

they agreed with satan..vs GOD.

and since then, stupidity and death had enter the world.

is that GOD fault? NO.

it is like you blaming your parent for you CHOOSING to tell a lie..or do a thing wrong..or the teen kill himself in gllry of killing others at the mall.

this is all satan SEEDLING and harvesting lost souls going to hell..OR

christians lives shorten. by wrong place at wrong time. or not hearing the holy spirit..of not going shopping there today..? very possible HE try to tell them or us.not to go or to go to help someone..ect.

GOD is GOOD.

satan is pure evil.

Answer 27

look cheese head...this is not God's world...this is the Devils domain..God can not inter fer with man and his free will, the Devil is there to deceive the world and looks like U have fallen into his trap..figures.

Answer 28

It's because Jesus loves seeing children killed before they get to the prime of life...to play off of an earlier answer: if you look around enough, you will find plenty of unjust, sickening catastrophes that make you wonder whether there is a justice in this world, let alone a loving God. This pales in comparison to some of those cases...

Answer 29

He is punishing you for your udderly poor choice of head gear.

Answer 30

If you are searching the world looking for reasons to NOT believe in God, you will find many ... and certainly you will be overlooking the many, many reasons to rejoice in God.



It's your choice.



Look with your eyes closed ... or with your eyes open.





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Answer 31

Would you be more apt to believe if there were no death at all?

Answer 32

Only God can answer that question for you, ask Him.

Answer 33

That is so sad.

Answer 34

Where were his parents in all this!

Answer 35

Christian brain fart: "God works in mysterious ways."

Answer 36

you tell um!!!!!

Answer 37

thats awesome.