So who’s to blame for natural disasters? The current culprit is God. Anything awful happening on the planet and it’s an “Act of God.” Meaning what exactly? Meaning God caused an earthquake to happen? Or that he made the river burst its banks, or that he blew the lid off a volcano? So he’s that [...]
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Humans have done terrible things to humans, but all justified in the minds of those doing them, of course – in self-defence, combatting evil, fighting for freedom, or “because it’s God’s will.” Meanwhile, in movies and other propaganda, we’re constantly fed the idea that justice justifies revenge, “payback time” and settling disputes by violence, even [...]
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Is there any promise in scripture that God will protect us? Yes, 1 John 5:18: “The God-begotten are also the God-protected. The Evil One can’t lay a hand on them” (The Message). Does that mean we’re safe from earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, volcanoes, accidents, terrorists and pandemics? Or that we’ll never break a leg skiing, [...]
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The Bible is sketchy on how our planet formed and whether natural disasters like earthquakes, floods and hurricanes were part of the original plan, or not. Disasters certainly became part of our history because the Earth was reduced to a dark mass of water, Genesis 1:2, and our pockmarked Moon and cratered Earth are visible witness [...]
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For all the chaos that natural disasters like earthquakes cause, we get a glimpse of something wonderful too – of people tearing at the rubble to free those trapped, of help pouring in from all over, and of deep compassion for those who’ve suffered. It’s amazing how people who don’t normally mix together are suddenly [...]
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Natural disasters are usually blamed on God – but why would God purposely create disasters? A lot of religious people, however, believe that’s exactly what God’s doing because, they say, he gets so angry at times at the way we’re behaving that he simply can’t contain himself any longer and he has to vent like [...]
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A natural disaster is usually called an “Act of God,” but rightly so, surely, because God’s the one who created sliding plates that cause massive earthquakes, and it’s he who made the weather systems that stir up hurricanes, floods and tornadoes. We might be partly to blame for lousy weather, true, but volcanoes? It was God [...]
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