Whare was God at Auschwitz?
In his remarks at the infamous Nazi death camp, Pope Benidict asked that question that has reverberated through that place for decades, Whare was God? To answer that question we should perhaps consider the nature of faith and the role that the almighty has decided to take in this world. He has left it to man to help one another in time of need, he has left it to man to love and care for his brother, to be charitable, and to be steadfast in times of need.
Whare was God at Auschwitz? He was inside all who suffered and died at that terriable place. He was there in their time of need, all they had to do was look inside themsleves for his love was there for them to find, and feel. It is in times like those when terriable evil rules the world that a people's faith is tested the most. Whare was God? He was there, he was waiting for the people to turn to him for comfort and love. Why did he let Auschwitz happen? The Lord felt that the time had not come to interfere in the affairs of man. Man allowed those horrors to happen, and it was man who put an end to the maddness. It was man's choice to let what happen, happen. The lord has decided, that there is a time and place for his intervention, just not when man decides it's convienent. Man will not move the lord by will alone, rather it's the lord through his will that will move man.
We live in a world full of choices, we are allowed to choose as we please, we can choose to do either good or evil, we are judged not soley on our actions but on the quality of choices we make. Whether they are shameful, or noble best illistrates the nature of our character. We ask the lord forgiveness, but what do we do that we are sincere in our desire to be forgiven? Actions, to be the best possible citicezen of the world that we can be, to love our neighbor, our brother as we love and care about our selves and familes, and to forgive other's of their transgressions against us as we wish to be forgiven.
Whare was God at Auschwitz? He was there for those who had the strength and knowledge to know whare to look, he was waiting for them.
Whare was God at Auschwitz? He was inside all who suffered and died at that terriable place. He was there in their time of need, all they had to do was look inside themsleves for his love was there for them to find, and feel. It is in times like those when terriable evil rules the world that a people's faith is tested the most. Whare was God? He was there, he was waiting for the people to turn to him for comfort and love. Why did he let Auschwitz happen? The Lord felt that the time had not come to interfere in the affairs of man. Man allowed those horrors to happen, and it was man who put an end to the maddness. It was man's choice to let what happen, happen. The lord has decided, that there is a time and place for his intervention, just not when man decides it's convienent. Man will not move the lord by will alone, rather it's the lord through his will that will move man.
We live in a world full of choices, we are allowed to choose as we please, we can choose to do either good or evil, we are judged not soley on our actions but on the quality of choices we make. Whether they are shameful, or noble best illistrates the nature of our character. We ask the lord forgiveness, but what do we do that we are sincere in our desire to be forgiven? Actions, to be the best possible citicezen of the world that we can be, to love our neighbor, our brother as we love and care about our selves and familes, and to forgive other's of their transgressions against us as we wish to be forgiven.
Whare was God at Auschwitz? He was there for those who had the strength and knowledge to know whare to look, he was waiting for them.
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