Signs

[John81]

...and why so many think Christians are crazy!

Anyone seen the latest "sign from God" making the rounds of the internet?

"A rainbow appeared over the Arapahoe County courthouse on Thursday – the day the Aurora theater shooter was found guilty of murder."

Across the internet where this is being posted Christians are calling this yet another sign from God. Comments such as God showing His approval of the murder conviction and that sort of thing.

Is that really what a rainbow represents, God's approval of something? After a prayer meeting earlier this year in DC there was a rainbow and Christians were at it again proclaiming this a sign of God's approval. Ironically, after the Supreme Court handed down their pro-homosexual "marriage" ruling, homosexual groups posted a photo of a rainbow from that day and declared, see, it's a sign from God he approves of homosexual marriage!

Christians, if they know the Bible at all, should know the one purpose God declared with regards to the rainbow; and it's not as a special sign of approval for whatever is going on at the moment.

Christians cried out that Hurricane Katrina was a sign of God's disapproval of homosexuals in New Orleans. Earlier this year homosexuals used this same sort of argument when Texas put forth an anti-homosexual ruling and much of the State found itself flooding and the homosexuals said to Christians, Look, God disapproves of the anti-homosexual ruling!

We should stop declaring this or that is a sign from God and simply do as God commanded by sharing the Gospel, training up immature Christians, preaching and teaching the truth of Scripture. Leave the soothsaying and guessing games to the hucksters and false religionists.

[Invicta]

I believe that God does give some signs, but I suppose it depends on how you interpret them

Some years ago when the then Archbishop of York said that he did not believe in the virgin birth and within a few days York mInster was struck by lightning some said it was a sign.  Was it?

In 1870 when the Pope was declared infallible, there was a terrific thunderstorm and at midday, it was so dark the artificial lights had to be used and the cardinal making the announcement could not he heard because of the noise of the thunder.  A sign?

In 1870, the Pope also lost his temporal possessions.  Till that time he had ruled much of Italy as absolute monarch. He had no property except the Vatican palace until Mussolini gave him the Vatican State in 1926.