Christians.... What explination do you give for the occurance for natural disaters?

Question

by natural I mean earthquakes etc.

Answer 1

God used to control absolutely everything, but after adam and eve sinned against him, he withdrew his hand from our imperfect world. "The wages of sin is death" as the bible states, God does not cause natural disasters, but rather allows them to happen, the world is a natural place and disasters are natural occurences. He sent his son Jesus to wash away our sins in that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. As a result of Adam and Eve's choice to disobey God's simple command we live in a world seperated from the Lord and things such as disaster and death are somewhat prices to pay before we move on to be with him in bliss, hope this info helped!

Answer 2

I am a Christian, I believe in God and that Jesus Christ is God- it would take some long explanation of who and what God is (that even most Christians would disagree with) for me to answer your question sufficiently, so that you would know the answer without a doubt. BUT in short, God created the Universe, all in it, and that goes for the things that happen in it all. God does not pull strings like on a puppet to control the weather. It dont rain because God is crying! No, God is NOT bowling when you hear thunder, and so on. The big bang, and most scientific knowledge is correct, but even they do not know WHY things are the way things are.

Its as if God built a line of dominoes that is never ending. Then He poked the first one into the other and the line has been falling ever since. The Earth goes through cycles, and the natural disasters happening now, have been happening forever. Some years (or decades) are worse than others. If you roll a ball, the only thing you controlled is the direction you rolled it in. After the ball leaves your hand, it is already in motion- you no longer control its action or fate. All control was in the thought of rolling it and the technique used.

God created the Earth and set it free to do what it will. Natural disaster is only the consequences of another forces influences.

Answer 3

Well what of it-really don't know what you expect for no where does it say that there are no natural disasters-talks of them happening in the bible-only one not natural was the Big Flood when All so wicked except Noah and his family and God allowed 2 of each species to be taken into the ark but then God gave us the rainbow as a reminder of his promise whenever it rains that never again will He cause a flood to cover the earth entirely and drown man and all life.

Answer 4

Gday AEDgt,

Thanks for your question.

Christian Century used these words in response to Hurricane Katrina.

3. But the Bible will not for long ponder Yahweh's impotence. The Bible prefers to claim that God's power is beyond our normal calculus, so explanation is a futile enterprise. That surely is the claim of the speeches of God in the whirlwind in the book of Job. The human poser of theological questions has, in the end, no standing whereby God may be queried (Job 38:16-17, 25-27). Job, like every pondering theologian, is reduced to silence.

That mystery of God, moreover, is designed to exhibit the fiercer, unfettered power of God. Thus Psalm 29 can articulate the sweep of a divine storm that is without explanation and certainly without moral dimension (w. 7-9a). Those who watched the storm can only join in doxology: "How great thou art!" The storm and the subsequent song have the effect of situating human wonderment and human imagining before a mystery that may be purposeful but in human horizon is so raw as to defy purposeful explanation.

While I am not a Christian, this seems a reasonable explanation of the mainstream Christian point of view.

Regards

Answer 5

Well, ever since we've brought sin into the world there has been bad things..

Plus, these 'natural disasters' can be good. Sometimes fires occur in forests which burns away dead things and allows new plants to grow. Other trees -depend- on a fire to make their seeds grow!

Natural disasters.. they are just like anything else in the world. God isn't simply deciding to punish us on a particular day my making a tornado crash into your house.. though you could call it a test of faith I suppose.

Answer 6

i am not christian, i am actually buddhist. Buddha's teaching of the occurance for natural disasters is that the people living in the regions of where the disaster occurs, live in more sin then others. They harm others such as people and animals. committing crimes and what not. its the idea of karma. their actions are just coming back to bite them in the butt. just like when i forget which country tore down the historic statue of a buddhist angel, they practially lost their country and there people are suffering. i think it was iraq or some other middle eastern country...

Answer 7

I feel that we humans are wrecking our planet ourselves. Think about it. We drill for oil. We mine the earth of its treasures like gemstones and coal. We cut down all the forests. We pollute everything necessary to our survival. How much do we think the earth can take? We have upset the ecological balance of the earth. Natural disasters are just mother nature's way of telling us, enough already! And yes, I consider myself a christian.

Answer 8

Sometimes it's a matter of Faith. To start anew,something or someone most die. It seem (to look in the Bible) there has always bin disasters. A floor here and drought there. Why there was even fire that fell from the sky.

Answer 9

the key word is "natural". some things happen because of natural causes, hurricanes because of high pressure buildup in the gulfstream. earthquakes, because of shifts in tetonic plates, etc. some things that are unnatural in occurence is because we have made God angry. dont make God angry and maybe you'll have a nice day.

Answer 10

Genesis 2:16-17

16-And the Lord God commanded the man, saying,Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat.

17-But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

There has been death and disaster ever sense the first sin.