Rosebud----I do think God plays a part. Yes, God does exist and he does have a hand in this world and everything that goes on.

I am just wary of the extent people/Christians go to, in attributing all their choices and decisions making to being God's choice.
It's like playing chess. I am mean, c'mon, we move the chess pieces around ourselves. God doesn't guide our hands. We can pray to God for wisdom in our decision making, but ultimately the choice to move the pawns, bishops, knights, forwards or backwards is ours.

Give you an example that made me see the light. My friend married a bastard who beats her with his fists and leaves marks on her. They are both self-professed Christians who go to church every Sunday. I asked her why she didn't make a police report. She said, "God spoke to me, told me I should stick by my husband, love and support him, I can make him change his ways". Everything she said, began with an "I". It wasn't God making the decision, it was her.

What burns me up the most is when people in a leadership role, start using God as the defence for all their decision making and go on to telling their subordinates and the community that "God's hand is in this". That's unbiblical and retarded. No one can manipulate God to do stuff for them and telling people that God said this and that, and that y'all have to abide...yada yada......is unbiblical and retarded!

I digress.....but to the original poster TheOneandOnlyX.....my point is that there is a fine line between God's agenda and Man's agenda.