zombieslayer;196643Or what if he returned in 108 yards for a TD?

Remember Randall Cobb earlier this year? He was supposed to take a knee.
Luckily for us, God intervened and told him to run it out.
Maybe God told Shields to do the same, but someone missed a block.

zombieslayer;196643Or what if he returned in 108 yards for a TD?

Remember Randall Cobb earlier this year? He was supposed to take a knee.
Luckily for us, God intervened and told him to run it out.
Maybe God told Shields to do the same, but someone missed a block.

Zero2Cool;196647God didn't tell Randall Cobb to take it out.

get_louder_at_lambeau;196649

Zero2Cool;196647God didn't tell Randall Cobb to take it out. He was referring to his faith.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eujCeBC4Lh0&feature=related

Randall CobbWhen I said God told me to bring the ball out (on his 108-yard kickoff return for a touchdown against the Saints), I wasn’t necessarily saying that He told me that, but I meant it in the sense that I’m faith-driven. Whenever I feel something inside telling me to do something, I feel like that urge is coming from my Savior, and that’s Him pushing me to do something. So I follow His commands because I feel like He’s leading me in the right direction.

Silentio;196645An all powerful God that determines the performance of football players wouldn’t allow a missed block.

Silentio, MDiv.

zombieslayer;196656On a serious note, I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here.
Not really defending what Shields' did.
I love INT returns, but he had a split second decision to see if he had blockers.
He made the wrong choice, obviously.
It's a lot easier to make that decision when you're watching the game than playing it.
My last sentence needs to be considered.

zombieslayer;196656Well, you're assuming God is all-powerful.

You're also assuming that if God is all-powerful, he doesn't allow free will of the other 10 guys.

Let's just go with the latter scenario.
One of the 10 guys missed his block.

(God doesn't care about the Rams and He hates the Vikings).

Dexter_Sinister;196672That all depends on if you believe in Calvinism or Armenianism.

One believes that free will is an illusion and from God's point of view, nothing happens without His direct control and all of time has already happened from His perspective. That is what all powerful and all knowing means. He knows everything down to infinite detail and controls everything to an infinite degree throughout the length and breadth of time. Nothing is by chance and everything means something in the infinite picture. We are just to finite to see it.

The other is you have to make the choice because God decided we get free will and we are allowed to chose ourselves over Him.

It doesn't absolve us from having to make that personal choice. It is only from Gods perspective that the difference would be relevant. From a practical standpoint, either way we still have to make the choice so it doesn't let us off the hook. It is just that even in making that choice, the Calvinists give the credit to God.

So God doesn't hate the Vikings. They just need character forged through the fires of adversity. Since God made them slow learners, it is taking them a while.

His Excellency Charles Woodson"He should've come out the same way, the place that he caught it, instead of trying to reverse field."