God or coincidence?
I am on the side of coincidence so I am not going to accept that we need to be good to protect ourselves from covid because even good people/ children died due to covid which means virus don't know you are good or bad.
There is only apparent coincidence. Everything is by cause-and-effect. God listens to the desires of people within the bounds of the freedom He granted them, and then manipulates the cause-and-effect He set up at the beginning of Creation to match both, His desires (for man's freedom to be maintained), and mans' freedom.
No coincidence. Only people who are too ignorant to understand the exact processes of C&E that operates in everything.
I heard about the butterfly effect but not the effect you are talking about.
But you and me are saying the same things from two different perspectives, coincidence can also be the effect of someone's action and God may not preprogram everything what is supposed to happen in this world for every living and non living things, he must be busy with his personal life.
I agree with you, I don't understand why God would care about human beings and humanity. Do human beings care about ants and anthills?
Earthlings and Earth are nothing in the universe, God has maybe already forgotten our existence since several millennia now.
Let me explain it a little.
If you look for the word "zygote" in
Politics & Society posts, you will find it a little. Zygote:
the cell produced by the union of two gametes, before it undergoes cleavage.
In other words, the result of the egg and the sperm coming together.
An adult man or woman is countless numbers of times greater and bigger than a zygote. But God is unimaginably, infinitely greater than a man or a woman. Yet, Saint Paul in the Bible, in the Acts of the Apostles, told the heathen people in the Areopagus forum in Athens...
22Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.
24“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’"
29“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
If you look throughout the Bible, God calls His people His children. And Jesus calls God His and our God, Father. Consider the Lord's prayer... "Our Father Who art in Heaven..."
We didn't do this any more than a zygote brings itself into being. It was God's plan to have children.