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But Judah’s son turns out to be an evil man. Er was wicked, so wicked that the Lord killed him. Here we encounter the disturbing fact that God, on rare occasions, may intervene to terminate a human life because of serious evil. It happened at this point, and it happened in the New Testament times, for instance, in Jerusalem with Ananias and Sapphira (see Acts 5) and, as Paul tells us, in the church at Corinth (1 Cor. 11:30).
was C. S. Lewis who observed: “Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
Gordon Wilson, whose daughter Marie was killed in the Enniskillen bombing in 1987? He said he prayed for the bombers every day: “I bear no ill-will, I bear no grudge.” His tribute to his daughter has gone down as one of the most moving in all the years of the conflict in Northern Ireland. His book is called Marie: Story from Enniskillen.
