He said that it was his belief that God first intervened to spare his life in 1973, amid rioting in Belfast, when he found himself stranded with two of his men in a Loyalist paramilitary area.
A hail of gunfire cut down the other soldiers, fatally injuring one, while Sir Richard emerged unscathed.
The second incident took place during a mine-clearing operation in South Armagh in 1975, when an explosion killed his company commander, Major Peter Willis. Sir Richard had been walking alongside him moments before but had stopped to study an aerial photograph.
The general's third brush with death came a few months later in Germany when he fell asleep at the wheel of a car but was fortunate to veer off into a field rather than into a steep bank and wood which bordered the route 200 yards further on.
"On three occasions, God had shown me his love and his protection and had challenged me to make a complete commitment to him, but on each occasion I had failed to make the response that he wanted from me," said Sir Richard, who is vice-president of the Officers' Christian Union.
- God saved me from death three times, says Army chief
Goodness. Apparently, god wasn't so fond of the two who were killed in his presence.
The thing about near-death experiences is that the ones who live to tell about it... are... well... the ones who live to tell about it. It's much harder for the dead to lament god's lack of mercy.
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I am amazed at how often believers thank god when they don't die, even when others around them do.
Just once I'd like to hear the interviewer ask them what god must have thought of the dead ones, especially when children die.
(the letter verification came very close to elohim, spooky)
God saved me from death three times, says Army chief
Yes, but not the fourth time BOOM!
That's when they say that it was god's will that the person died
It was obviously god's will that I mock this article. Otherwise, why would he have manipulated the Google algorithms in such a perfect way as to allow me to find it?
I especially wish interviewers would ask about children killed while praying at crosses. Doesn't that seem to be a moment when god should certainly be paying attention and feeling especially benevolent? (I was going to link, but apparently the LA times has deleted the article in the five or so months since the event occured)
Just once I'd like to hear the interviewer ask them what god must have thought of the dead ones, especially when children die.
They do explain that occasionally; God was calling them home early, because they were good and pure and innocent.
The good either have short lives because they're getting their heavenly reward early, or long lives because they're being rewarded here on Earth and/or are protected so they can do God's will. The wicked either have short lives as part of God's punishment, or long lives so they have a chance to repent. All possible universes are consistent with God; that's how we know He really super-exists.
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