Lightning striking St Peter's.
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he left them, and went away.
But as Kip said to Napoleon Dynamite; You have no way of knowing that...
St. Peter's is frequently struck by lightning and so how does one explain the following lightening strikes?
http://cdn.theologicalstudies.net/40/40.2/40.2.3.pdf
Well, by prolly saying that the lightening strikes signaled approval from God..but that is just another way of saying that any spiritual meaning to be assigned to lightening striking St. Peter's is purely subjective and associated with the emotional and spiritual state of the witness at the time.
If the witness is in a good state and feeling positive about what is happening in The Vatican at the time of the lightening strike, then the strike will be interpreted as a sign of approval by God for those actions whereas if what is happening in The Vatican at the time of the lightening strike is negative, the strike will be interpreted by the witness as a sign of God's disapproval of that action but it really is a case of the emotional/psychological projection of the witness in both instances.
But striking is what lightning does to really big and tall structures and so there is nothing definitive or of spiritual consequence to be derived from the strike.
There are not a few Trad Catholics who claim that when lightening struck St. Peter's Basilica after Pope Benedict XVI abdicated, it was a clear signal of God's disapproval.
But as Kip said to Napoleon Dynamite; You have no way of knowing that...
St. Peter's is frequently struck by lightning and so how does one explain the following lightening strikes?
http://cdn.theologicalstudies.net/40/40.2/40.2.3.pdf
Well, by prolly saying that the lightening strikes signaled approval from God..but that is just another way of saying that any spiritual meaning to be assigned to lightening striking St. Peter's is purely subjective and associated with the emotional and spiritual state of the witness at the time.
If the witness is in a good state and feeling positive about what is happening in The Vatican at the time of the lightening strike, then the strike will be interpreted as a sign of approval by God for those actions whereas if what is happening in The Vatican at the time of the lightening strike is negative, the strike will be interpreted by the witness as a sign of God's disapproval of that action but it really is a case of the emotional/psychological projection of the witness in both instances.
But striking is what lightning does to really big and tall structures and so there is nothing definitive or of spiritual consequence to be derived from the strike.
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