Iamme already posted some good points. So I will just add to one point.
Wow, people form your church volunteered to go help Hurricane Katrina? Awesome. I don't see how you can call it God's work. I could easily call it doing the right thing in order to avoid hell.
If those within my church claim they desire to do God's will then I will assume they are telling me the truth.
I see no selfish motive in going to NO. What else could it be? Rarely do I ever buy that bs hell line btw. The only time I do is from soldiers or elderly folk on their death beds.
I know plenty of people who volunteered just because it was the right thing to do. You have volunteer organizations such as the Americorps who did the same thing. Did they need God in order to do that? Absolutely not.
Wonderful! You have identified other instruments that God has used to alleviate suffering. Here is another can of worms entirely, but what is the 'right' thing to do? Do not expect me to know what you mean by this...
If God was powerful enough to create the Earth, I'm sure he could of done something for the poor victims of NO. Of course, you'll just call it warranted suffering because you can't come to terms with the unknown.
He did. He sent people from my church and from your Americorps.
And just to add on. Anyone who needs the Bible or a WWJD bracelet to tell them to be a good person belongs in "hell" to begin with.
Quite right. In fact, a Christian would argue that we all deserve 'hell' as we are inherently flawed (see my signature below). As such, it is the 'grace' or 'love' of God that spares us from what we deserve.
