The Intelligence Of The Anti-Faith Secular Humanists Will Vanish.

[JAG ..]

JAG Writes:
I recently wrote a letter to my grandson that said:
Happy Birthday. You will want many more Happy Birthdays and the path
to get them is to feed your mind and heart daily on the truths in the Bible
the word of God and then stay far away from the pseudo-intellectual God-haters
[Romans 1:28-32] who bad-mouth God and Christianity -- vultures they are,
and they sit perched, waiting hungry, throughout secularized academia
hoping to gobble down young Christians who are not solidly and strongly
grounded in the truths of the Holy Bible the word of God.

You'll run into 'em. They have the smell of death and unbelief on them. You
will soon be entering the house of so-called "higher education" aka the University
where your mind will be exposed to the sinful evil unbelief of the Secular Humanists
who are a self-worshiping gaggle of Academic Pseudo-intellectual Philosophical
Talking Heads who do not have enough wisdom to escape the perish of
John 3:16. Don't listen to their anti-faith gobbledygook. Tune out their
anti-Christian balderdash. They have not earned the right to your ear. Ignore
them as being 00.00.

Yes of course memorize their intellectualized bovine excreta long enough to
ace-out [A+} their tests, then forget their anti-Christian blather with a glad
heart as it reverberates happily on out of your mind into oblivion. Remember,
these anti-faith anti-Christian pseudo-intellectuals with Ph.D's, at say age
40 [who live to be say age 100] have only 720 months before they will become
either worm feces or ashes [if they are cremated], or animal feces if they are
eaten by animals [for example lost in Yellowstone National Park -- it does happen],
or oceanic creatures feces [think Titanic]. One of these 4 ends awaits them
all -- unless they make arrangements, prior to their croaking, with a taxidermist
to have their carcasses stuffed and mounted on a wall or perhaps placed in a
spare chair in Uncle Voltaire's spare bedroom --otherwise its either an Ashes
or Future Feces end for them all. So? So don't listen to Future Feces tell you
that Christianity is not true. Ignore them and get away from them and their
Boiled-Egg-Rotten-Egg-Bad-Breath Unbelief. They belong to their father the
devil [John 8:44] and they want you to join them in Hell because misery loves
company,.

Remember to remember when you are sitting in the university classroom and
that anti-faith anti-Christian professor with a Ph.D is telling you that faith is not
a valid path to truth -- remember that you are listening to Future Feces blathering
on and on -- Future Worm Feces.

And remember that Christianity, unlike Secular Humanism, has a bright cheerful
Happy Ending:
"I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me will live, even
though they die, and whoever lives by believing in Me will never die."__The Lord
Jesus [John 11:25-26].

And keep this always in your mind as well.
"I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will
have trouble. But take heart. I have overcome the world. __The Lord Jesus
{John 16:33].

And regarding the anti-faith anti-Christian Secular Humanists Academic Philosophical
Pseudo-Intellectual Talking Heads, remember this:
God says,
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
__The Apostle Paul quoting Isaiah 29:14

God Bless.
Granddaddy
April 1, 2021
"Have Faith in God"__The Lord Jesus [Mark 11:22] . . . .

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

PS
To be precise regarding the certain end of the anti-faith anti-Christian
Secular Humanists Academic Philosophical Pseudo-Intellectual Talking
Heads: There is a 5th possibility for the end of their carcasses:
{1} Worm Feces [AKA Annelida Defecation]
{2} Animal Feces
{3} Oceanic Creatures Feces
{4} Ashes [if cremated]
{5} Cryonics
LOL. Here on #5 they become the Ultimate Freezer Burn.
How so?
Well, try keeping a rib-eye steak in the freezer for 50 years.
What would that look like!

[][]

 

[Who Me]

Had my Father, a Christian, written a letter like this to me as a young late teenaged Christian I would have torn it up in disgust for its name calling and lack of reasoned arguments.

 

[jasonc]

its not far from the truth

a local psychology class ,the final exam was why pot should be legal .the guy gave you a higher grade if you agreed.he smoked it was known .

6000 word Gordon rule essay.

 

[GodsGrace]

JAG Writes:
I recently wrote a letter to my grandson that said:
Happy Birthday. You will want many more Happy Birthdays and the path
to get them is to feed your mind and heart daily on the truths in the Bible
the word of God and then stay far away from the pseudo-intellectual God-haters
[Romans 1:28-32] who bad-mouth God and Christianity -- vultures they are,
and they sit perched, waiting hungry, throughout secularized academia
hoping to gobble down young Christians who are not solidly and strongly
grounded in the truths of the Holy Bible the word of God.

You'll run into 'em. They have the smell of death and unbelief on them. You
will soon be entering the house of so-called "higher education" aka the University
where your mind will be exposed to the sinful evil unbelief of the Secular Humanists
who are a self-worshiping gaggle of Academic Pseudo-intellectual Philosophical
Talking Heads who do not have enough wisdom to escape the perish of
John 3:16. Don't listen to their anti-faith gobbledygook. Tune out their
anti-Christian balderdash. They have not earned the right to your ear. Ignore
them as being 00.00.

Yes of course memorize their intellectualized bovine excreta long enough to
ace-out [A+} their tests, then forget their anti-Christian blather with a glad
heart as it reverberates happily on out of your mind into oblivion. Remember,
these anti-faith anti-Christian pseudo-intellectuals with Ph.D's, at say age
40 [who live to be say age 100] have only 720 months before they will become
either worm feces or ashes [if they are cremated], or animal feces if they are
eaten by animals [for example lost in Yellowstone National Park -- it does happen],
or oceanic creatures feces [think Titanic]. One of these 4 ends awaits them
all -- unless they make arrangements, prior to their croaking, with a taxidermist
to have their carcasses stuffed and mounted on a wall or perhaps placed in a
spare chair in Uncle Voltaire's spare bedroom --otherwise its either an Ashes
or Future Feces end for them all. So? So don't listen to Future Feces tell you
that Christianity is not true. Ignore them and get away from them and their
Boiled-Egg-Rotten-Egg-Bad-Breath Unbelief. They belong to their father the
devil [John 8:44] and they want you to join them in Hell because misery loves
company,.

Remember to remember when you are sitting in the university classroom and
that anti-faith anti-Christian professor with a Ph.D is telling you that faith is not
a valid path to truth -- remember that you are listening to Future Feces blathering
on and on -- Future Worm Feces.

And remember that Christianity, unlike Secular Humanism, has a bright cheerful
Happy Ending:
"I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me will live, even
though they die, and whoever lives by believing in Me will never die."__The Lord
Jesus [John 11:25-26].

And keep this always in your mind as well.
"I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will
have trouble. But take heart. I have overcome the world. __The Lord Jesus
{John 16:33].

And regarding the anti-faith anti-Christian Secular Humanists Academic Philosophical
Pseudo-Intellectual Talking Heads, remember this:
God says,
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
__The Apostle Paul quoting Isaiah 29:14

God Bless.
Granddaddy
April 1, 2021
"Have Faith in God"__The Lord Jesus [Mark 11:22] . . . .

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

PS
To be precise regarding the certain end of the anti-faith anti-Christian
Secular Humanists Academic Philosophical Pseudo-Intellectual Talking
Heads: There is a 5th possibility for the end of their carcasses:
{1} Worm Feces [AKA Annelida Defecation]
{2} Animal Feces
{3} Oceanic Creatures Feces
{4} Ashes [if cremated]
{5} Cryonics
LOL. Here on #5 they become the Ultimate Freezer Burn.
How so?
Well, try keeping a rib-eye steak in the freezer for 50 years.
What would that look like!

[][]

I hope your grandson is at least 50!!

Your points are excellent....
But maybe it's a bit much?
I do agree with you.
Ben Shapiro did what you said...
Told his profs what they wanted to hear to get high marks.

 

[JAG ..]

Had my Father, a Christian, written a letter like this to me as a young late teenaged Christian I would have torn it up in disgust for its name calling and lack of reasoned arguments.

An interesting response.
If you object to name calling, then it compellingly follows that you
also object to the following -- is that right?

{1} Mathew Chapter 23:
The Lord Jesus talking to His enemies:
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you
have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell
as you are. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!

You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside
but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything
unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people
as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and
wickedness.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being
condemned to hell? ___The Lord Jesus in Matthew chapter 23

{2} Luke 3:7 and Matthew 3:7
"John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him,
"You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the
coming wrath?___John The Baptist

{3} " Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing
their own opinions."___Proverbs 18:2 NIV

{4}"Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates
correction is stupid." ___Proverbs 12:1 NIV

{5} "Outside are the dogs."___The Apostle John Revelation 22:15 NIV
John calls some humans "dogs."

{6} "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs.
If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear
you to pieces.___The Lord Jesus Matthew 7:6
The Lord Jesus says here that some humans are "dogs" and "pigs."

Best.

JAG


``

 

[Who Me]

An interesting response.
If you object to name calling, then it compellingly follows that you
also object to the following -- is that right?

{1} Mathew Chapter 23:
The Lord Jesus talking to His enemies:
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you
have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell
as you are. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!

You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside
but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything
unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people
as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and
wickedness.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being
condemned to hell? ___The Lord Jesus in Matthew chapter 23

{2} Luke 3:7 and Matthew 3:7
"John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him,
"You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the
coming wrath?___John The Baptist

{3} " Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing
their own opinions."___Proverbs 18:2 NIV

{4}"Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates
correction is stupid." ___Proverbs 12:1 NIV

{5} "Outside are the dogs."___The Apostle John Revelation 22:15 NIV
John calls some humans "dogs."

{6} "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs.
If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear
you to pieces.___The Lord Jesus Matthew 7:6
The Lord Jesus says here that some humans are "dogs" and "pigs."

Best.

JAG


``

There is a difference between calling people out to there face and calling people names in a letter.

 

[for_his_glory]

I applaud you JAG .. for taking a stance in boldness of letter to your Grandson. What you wrote him is exactly what is killing the churches today as no one wants to make these bold stands for the Lord in fear of being ridiculed as they would rather have a politically correct church that tickles the ears of the congregant instead of feeding them the life saving truth they need to hear.

 

[humble soul]

You'll run into 'em. They have the smell of death and unbelief on them. You
will soon be entering the house of so-called "higher education" aka the University
where your mind will be exposed to the sinful evil unbelief of the Secular Humanists

I do sympathise a little with this sentiment.
Postmodernism is not my fave type of thinking. Where evil binaries and power hungry patriarchals are stealing the rights of women.
If I had a child growing up now, I would advise them not to get carried away with any system of thinking, including Christian thinking. Especially that narrow mindset where Bible enthusiasts do not read anything else. That would be a very narrow education on its own.

 

[JAG ..]

There is a difference between calling people out to there face and calling people names in a letter.

Sell it if you can.
My view: Nobody is going to buy that.

____________________________________________


Then there is this:
Is there anything in the piece I wrote that is not true?

List what is not true.

And if what I said is true, then what you called name-calling
is not a bad or wrong thing because it is true and its never
a bad or wrong to tell the truth -- especially when your
young grandson is ACTUALLY in REAL DANGER from exposing
his young mind to the anti-faith anti-Christian God mockers. And these
secular universities are saturated with them. Have you heard about
the 4 so-called "new atheists"?

■ Richard Dawkins.
■ Sam Harris
■ Christopher Hitchens {late but still attacking Christianity via his
published books and videos}
■ Daniel Dennett
And their MANY disciples in academia. They ARE out there waiting . . .

_____________________________________________


Do you think the label "vultures" is to strong a name for people who
want to teach my grandson the following?
Start quote.
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant
character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust,
unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic
cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal,
genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal,
sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

Be sure to answer that question.

___________________________________________


Regarding name calling:
I read back over the piece and I could find only one instance
of name calling and here it is in the bolded red:
Start quote:
I recently wrote a letter to my grandson that said:
Happy Birthday. You will want many more Happy Birthdays and the path
to get them is to feed your mind and heart daily on the truths in the Bible
the word of God and then stay far away from the pseudo-intellectual God-haters
[Romans 1:28-32] who bad-mouth God and Christianity -- vultures they are,
and they sit perched, waiting hungry, throughout secularized academia
hoping to gobble down young Christians who are not solidly and strongly
grounded in the truths of the Holy Bible the word of God."
End quote

So is there anything in the name "vultures" that is not true?
{as applied to the people that want to teach my grandson what
Richard Dawkins said up-post}

Then this question for you:
What is the difference in me calling a class of people "vultures" and
in John the Baptist calling a class of people "a brood of vipers"?
Luke 3:7 and Matthew 3:7
"John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him,
"You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the
coming wrath?___John The Baptist

Be sure to answer that question.

__________________________________________

Regarding "Future Feces":
All references to their physical bodies becoming future worm feces etc is not
name calling -- all of that is nothing more than me telling them {and readers}
the truth about what is going to CERTAINLY happen to their physical bodies. And
again that is not name calling. You didn't say it was -- but I'm just making sure
we are clear on that point.

______________

Back to name calling:
I can only find "vultures."
Unless you want to claim that this is name-calling:
"Academic Pseudo-intellectual Philosophical Talking Heads"
LOL
Academic Pseudo-intellectual Philosophical Talking Heads is EXACTLY
what they are -- that is, the God-haters and the anti-faith anti-Christian Secular
Humanists.

_________________

And don't forget this:
I qualified the class of people I referred to as Secular Humanists and did NOT apply
the piece I wrote to ALL Secular Humanists -- but rather ONLY to those Secular Humanists
who are anti-faith and anti-Christian and who attack Christi9anity.

_______________________



Best Regards,

JAG


[][]

 

[humble soul]

that anti-faith anti-Christian professor with a Ph.D is telling you that faith is not
a valid path to truth -

This is not fact. It's possible.but its not fact. You deliberately exaggerate to sell your point.

 

[humble soul]

Is there anything in the piece I wrote that is not true?

It's not a factual piece. It's a biased political piece written by a conservative Christian to demonise left wing atheists.
Of course there is some truth, and people who see the modern world as simply Christian versus atheist will agree with you.
If you were really interested in the truth, you would have tried to see some good things that are occurring in universities. But instead you stuck to rhetoric.

 

[JAG ..]

I applaud you JAG .. for taking a stance in boldness of letter to your Grandson. What you wrote him is exactly what is killing the churches today as no one wants to make these bold stands for the Lord in fear of being ridiculed as they would rather have a politically correct church that tickles the ears of the congregant instead of feeding them the life saving truth they need to hear.

Thanks FHG,
Its rough out there in certain parts of secular academia.
We are losing some of our young people to the activists
God-haters and anti-faith so-called "intellectuals" like
Bart Ehrman who have figured out a scheme to try and
destroy Christianity by first destroying the credibility of
the Bible -- they call it Higher Criticism and they attack the
specific books of the New Testament and teach their young
students that the New Testament is an untrustworthy text
and therefore unreliable as even a source of truth, much
less as THE source of truth.
One can google "Bart Ehrman On The Bible" and pull up
all the evidence that one needs to demonstrate that Bart
Ehrman and his associates are anti-Bible anti-Christianity
and desire to push their beliefs on anybody that will listen
to them.
The Christian Apologist William Lane Craig has debated
Bart Ehrman, I think, 2 or 3 times -- its all over You Tube
and easy to find.

Best.

JAG

[][]

PS
And Bart Ehrman was once a "Christian" too.

_______________

"Bart D. Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar and textual critic of early Christianity. He is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written about how the original New Testament texts were frequently altered by scribes for a variety of reasons, and argues that these alterations affect the interpretation of the texts."

Bart D. Ehrman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

taggedwiki.zubiaga.org

``

 

[JAG ..]

It's not a factual piece. It's a biased political piece written by a conservative Christian to demonise left wing atheists.
Of course there is some truth, and people who see the modern world as simply Christian versus atheist will agree with you.
If you were really interested in the truth, you would have tried to see some good things that are occurring in universities. But instead you stuck to rhetoric.

You live in your world and I will live in my world.

JAG

 

[JAG ..]

This is not fact. It's possible.but its not fact. You deliberately exaggerate to sell your point.

False.

 

[humble soul]

But I share your concern for the atheistic influence of teachers at colleges. They seem to be growing in numbers. And it will lead to too much bias. We do need a Christian voice in colleges. And we do need the option of a classical education. By this I mean study people like Plato, Augustine, Dante, Pascal, and writers like Dostoyevsky.
Too much postmodernism leads to uncreative cynicism in my view. And there is an element of secular humanism in Universities. Students need to be aware of it before they sign up to subjects.if students do subjects like Literature/Arts/ Humanities and Sociology, they are more likely to come across ideas such as feminism and those "nasty" patriarchs.

 

[JAG ..]

But I share your concern for the atheistic influence of teachers at colleges. They seem to be growing in numbers. And it will lead to too much bias. We do need a Christian voice in colleges. And we do need the option of a classical education. By this I mean study people like Plato, Augustine, Dante, Pascal, and writers like Dostoyevsky.
Too much postmodernism leads to uncreative cynicism in my view. And there is an element of secular humanism in Universities. Students need to be aware of it before they sign up to subjects.if students do subjects like Literature/Arts/ Humanities and Sociology, they are more likely to come across ideas such as feminism and those "nasty" patriarchs.

Thanks for your comments. Good points. I am in favor of free speech and studying
all worthy subjects, personalities, books, and ideas. I do not fear the battlefield of
competing ideas because I am convinced that Christianity wins the war for the world
and wins the war for the minds and hearts of men. Ah but Christendom winning the
"war for the world" is another subject for another day.

Best regards,

JAG


``

 

[EvolvingChristian]

JAG Writes:
I recently wrote a letter to my grandson that said:
Happy Birthday. You will want many more Happy Birthdays and the path
to get them is to feed your mind and heart daily on the truths in the Bible
the word of God and then stay far away from the pseudo-intellectual God-haters
[Romans 1:28-32] who bad-mouth God and Christianity -- vultures they are,
and they sit perched, waiting hungry, throughout secularized academia
hoping to gobble down young Christians who are not solidly and strongly
grounded in the truths of the Holy Bible the word of God.

You'll run into 'em. They have the smell of death and unbelief on them. You
will soon be entering the house of so-called "higher education" aka the University
where your mind will be exposed to the sinful evil unbelief of the Secular Humanists
who are a self-worshiping gaggle of Academic Pseudo-intellectual Philosophical
Talking Heads who do not have enough wisdom to escape the perish of
John 3:16. Don't listen to their anti-faith gobbledygook. Tune out their
anti-Christian balderdash. They have not earned the right to your ear. Ignore
them as being 00.00.

Yes of course memorize their intellectualized bovine excreta long enough to
ace-out [A+} their tests, then forget their anti-Christian blather with a glad
heart as it reverberates happily on out of your mind into oblivion. Remember,
these anti-faith anti-Christian pseudo-intellectuals with Ph.D's, at say age
40 [who live to be say age 100] have only 720 months before they will become
either worm feces or ashes [if they are cremated], or animal feces if they are
eaten by animals [for example lost in Yellowstone National Park -- it does happen],
or oceanic creatures feces [think Titanic]. One of these 4 ends awaits them
all -- unless they make arrangements, prior to their croaking, with a taxidermist
to have their carcasses stuffed and mounted on a wall or perhaps placed in a
spare chair in Uncle Voltaire's spare bedroom --otherwise its either an Ashes
or Future Feces end for them all. So? So don't listen to Future Feces tell you
that Christianity is not true. Ignore them and get away from them and their
Boiled-Egg-Rotten-Egg-Bad-Breath Unbelief. They belong to their father the
devil [John 8:44] and they want you to join them in Hell because misery loves
company,.

Remember to remember when you are sitting in the university classroom and
that anti-faith anti-Christian professor with a Ph.D is telling you that faith is not
a valid path to truth -- remember that you are listening to Future Feces blathering
on and on -- Future Worm Feces.

And remember that Christianity, unlike Secular Humanism, has a bright cheerful
Happy Ending:
"I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me will live, even
though they die, and whoever lives by believing in Me will never die."__The Lord
Jesus [John 11:25-26].

And keep this always in your mind as well.
"I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will
have trouble. But take heart. I have overcome the world. __The Lord Jesus
{John 16:33].

And regarding the anti-faith anti-Christian Secular Humanists Academic Philosophical
Pseudo-Intellectual Talking Heads, remember this:
God says,
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
__The Apostle Paul quoting Isaiah 29:14

God Bless.
Granddaddy
April 1, 2021
"Have Faith in God"__The Lord Jesus [Mark 11:22] . . . .

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

PS
To be precise regarding the certain end of the anti-faith anti-Christian
Secular Humanists Academic Philosophical Pseudo-Intellectual Talking
Heads: There is a 5th possibility for the end of their carcasses:
{1} Worm Feces [AKA Annelida Defecation]
{2} Animal Feces
{3} Oceanic Creatures Feces
{4} Ashes [if cremated]
{5} Cryonics
LOL. Here on #5 they become the Ultimate Freezer Burn.
How so?
Well, try keeping a rib-eye steak in the freezer for 50 years.
What would that look like!

[][]

That's awesome!

By the way, do you participate on US Message Board?

 

[JAG ..]

That's awesome!

By the way, do you participate on US Message Board?

Thank you.

Regarding US Message Board:
Yes I post over there.
US Message Board is quite a place.
I ignore all that bad stuff and only respond
occasionally to the good people. They do have
some good folks over there.

Best.

JAG

[]

 

[EvolvingChristian]

Thank you.

Regarding US Message Board:
Yes I post over there.
US Message Board is quite a place.
I ignore all that bad stuff and only respond
occasionally to the good people. They do have
some good folks over there.

Best.

JAG

[]

Yea, I thought I recognized your name!

 

[for_his_glory]

This is the greatest time of our faith being tested as we stand firm on solid ground (Christ Jesus) as we boldly proclaim the name of Christ taking His message of the Gospel of God's grace out into the world.

Why God allows us to go through trials and tribulations:
1. Training as God prepares us for the future
2. Patience as we rely and trust in God's timing
3. Perseverance through trials that we remain in Gods will
4. Trust as God's ways are not our ways and He has a better plan for us
5. To learn from our mistakes
6. To humble ourselves before Him
7. To discipline us
8. Teach us to be dependent on Him alone
9. To spend quiet time with God so He can speak to us
10. To teach us of His protection
11. That we also share in the sufferings of Christ that we be not ashamed
12. Strengthen us to become more like Christ
13. To develop character
14. Build up our faith in the Lord
15. For a testimony and witness to help others
16. To show us sin in our lives that we need to own up to having
17. To remind us that God is in control
18. Helps us gain knowledge and understanding God's word
19. Teaches us to be thankful
20. To take our mind off the things of the world and and put them back on God