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PotOnWheel
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Date Joined Jul 2001
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Posted 9/12/2002 5:30 PM (GMT -6)

Did God Really Save the Miners?
How we feel about the Somerset nine's rescue says a lot about what we think about God.
by Frederica Mathewes-Green

www.beliefnet.com/story/110/story_11014_1.html?frameset=1&storyID=&boardID=43436

"God Gave Us a Miracle" reads the sign outside a diner in Somerset, Penna. But did He? Did God personally deliver the nine miners trapped 250 feet below ground? Would he have done it even if we hadn't prayed?

barneebus
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Date Joined Sep 2002
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Posted 9/13/2002 2:55 PM (GMT -6)

It is something to be thankful to God for, whether or not our prayers had any influence in the outcome.

GregBoyd
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Posted 9/16/2002 4:27 AM (GMT -6)

I think it makes perfect sense to thank God, thank the workers, thank gaurdian angels, and thank the prayers. The influences are many, as should be our appreciation. Had any one of them not come through, the miners might all be dead.

Doc

"In Christ...the ONLY THING that matters is faith energized by love." Galatians 5:6

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