Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Mr. Bryce responds again

I find my continuing dialogue with a user at another website agonizing because it all stemmed from the Anna Nicole letter, but it has continued without much talk of Anna. Click here if you need to be reminded about the start of this debate, or whatever you want to call it, before you read on.

User:
"Judge not, lest ye be judged. Let him who is without sin, cast the first stone.' I'm sure Anna has already made her peace with the Lord. Did you ever think for a second Mr.Bryce, that God Almighty might have already known the kind of life Anna would lead, even before she was ever conceived? Don't you think for a second that the Lord might have already known the date and time her life would end, and how it would end? The people whose lives you claim she left in pieces, don't you think that God had planned it to be that way? Don't you think for a second, that there might just be a bigger picture to all of this than meets the eye? We all have different journeys. We all take different paths. Nonetheless, we are all unique and special in His eyes. Let's find ourselves and not be afraid to be ourselves."

Bryce:
"The answer to your questions of me follow in the order you asked them. Yes, yes, no, and yes. I am glad you have faith that might let you see the bigger picture and the inherent value in it. However, the picture is not always the prettiest and clearest because God so lovingly granted us free will. Because God may bring good out of a situation doesn't mean it was the best ending that we could have had."

User:
"It may not always be the best ending, but it's always God's ending. And by the bigger picture, I mean God's picture, not ours. "

Bryce:
""...it's always God's ending." Do you mean that this is the ending God wanted?"

User:
"Exactly!!...wanted, needed, planned it to be,destined it to be. Whatever you want to call it. Things unfold the way that they're supposed to unfold. He allows things to happen.His Picture has already been drawn. And I emphasize, 'HIS PICTURE'."

Bryce:
"I understand that what we see through the lens is not necessarily what God sees. However, I must disagree with your opinion that the end is "always God's ending." This is to say that the Holocaust was God's ending, or that Hiroshima, 9/11, the bombings in London in '05, and the Iraq War were God's endings as well. I don't feel I am belittling God's will or master plan by believing those were not the endings God wanted."

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