The insurgent group al Quaeda has declared that its killing of Egypt’s envoy to Iraq was “the judgment of God.”
The statement had a familiar ring: Many of my fellow Christians seem to like to make their own pronouncements about God’s will.
The difference is one of degree.
We may well think that God wants X. It’s entirely appropriate to adopt this as a tentative conclusion. It’s entirely appropriate to cautiously act accordingly.
It’s another thing entirely to worship our tentative conclusion as immutable fact.
It doesn’t matter whether we’re Christians, Muslims, Jews, or whatever. The instant we start thinking like this, we start down an incredibly dangerous path.
(And I always wonder: How can such people be so invincibly certain about it?)
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