We have a desire to make things right with God on our own terms, earning our salvation, but this is not possible. Nothing that we can do can blot out the sin that is a part of our nature. God is perfect and demands perfection from us. He says,"Be ye holy for I am holy." You may be a very nice person, better than most, but you cannot reach perfection. Trying to reach God by your own efforts is a huge insult to God because He has provided the only acceptable way for us to come to Him. He sent Jesus to die on the cross ,so that all who believe in Him and accept His sacrifice as the only way back to God, can indeed be brought into fellowship with God. Although other Christians can help us find this way they cannot bring about your belief, this is between you and God. Only He can give you forgiveness and make you His child. He even gives you the faith by which you believe.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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