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A thought by Larry Osborne, (2009-04-04) from his book, Ten Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe (p. 95). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) In talking about Murphy’s Law Larry says, “We know him as the reason why the other line always moves faster; why whatever can go wrong, does go wrong; why the later we are, the more traffic signals we hit.”   He also says, “Those who assume that everything that happens has God's fingerprints all over it fail to distinguish between what God allows and what God causes— what God permits and what God prefers.” You see God created man and he named him Adam and he gave him and us the freedom to choose.   And Adam blew it for all of us by going against God’s plan to his plan.   That is called the fall and that act blew our perfect life that God planned for us.   Larry says, “Any attempt to downplay the universal impact of the fall— or worse, the assumption that Chri

A thought by Larry Osborne, (2009-04-04) from his book, Ten Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe (p. 81). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) But we have so much that we wish was in the Bible, don’t we? Larry says, “Adding rules, regulations, standards, or anything else we wish he'd included, and then judging those who fail to follow our additions, puts us at odds with God. It also puts us at risk of being branded a spiritual liar, no matter how strongly we feel about an issue.” He goes on, “Yet the more passionate we are about an issue, the harder it can be to let it go. Listen to our political rhetoric, our battles over obscure theological distinctives, and our rants against those who do church differently. By far, the harshest letters and e-mails I've ever received have been those triggered by a tradition, a preference, or a topic the writer felt so strongly about— and the Bible said nothing abo

A thought by Larry Osborne, (2009-04-04) from his book, Ten Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe (p. 74). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Larry says, “Underlying the idea that we have no right to judge the beliefs and moral standards of others is another widely held belief. It's the dogma that truth and morality are relative— the conviction that there are no universal spiritual truths and no universal moral standards. In other words, in the spiritual and moral realms, two diametrically opposing viewpoints or standards can both be true at the same time.” But what would happen if we took that view in other areas?   Larry says, “Imagine an engineering student arguing that his calculations don't matter as long as they work for him. Not many of us would drive over a bridge he designed. Or imagine your doctor giving you a handful of pills and telling you to take whichever ones ‘feel right.’”   But that