2006-09-26 21:55:12 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I highly advise you to look at the (other) answers to this older question which, in my opinion, are highly illustrative of the mentality far too common among a certain type of Christian:
http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvDq55DgB8My.gsYusDqnl7AFQx.?qid=20060609102812AAyAlrd
The fact is that those lucky enough _not_ to have been in the middle of a natural disaster are far too eager to pass judgement and claim that it's God's punishment. Don't be lulled into a false sense of security by all of the 'no' answers preceding me here - this kind of cruel hysteria is still far, far too common...
2006-09-26 22:03:48 · answer #1 · answered by XYZ 7 · 5⤊ 4⤋
No. Natural disasters have been occuring for alot longer than there have been human beings on this earth. The first proto-humans only appeared 4 million years ago.
It would be like saying that the disaster which occured 65 million years ago wiping out the dinosaurs, was to "punish" them.
2006-09-26 22:04:02 · answer #2 · answered by robertbdiver 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We are ultimately responsible for our own activities, such is the mantle of freewill, there is an equal and opposite reactionary exchange within the material realm that is constantly drawing the effects of all activities back to the centre.
This system has been established by God as an extension of the unlimited infinitive shaktiman, which has a perfectly aligned placement, that if violated by misuse of individual freewill, automatically reshapes back to the original condition, therefore when events such as disasters occur, it is to be understood that those individuals affected are cent per cent responsible and are being rectified in an equally proportionate manner to the reactionary disturbance both micro and macro, positive and negative to the degree of impute performed individually and collectively over many lifetimes.
2006-09-29 11:07:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and No. It's possible that some natural disasters might be the act of God to punish people for their sins. Because we all know how the people of the Lut were punished for their great sin in history.
2006-09-26 23:16:48 · answer #4 · answered by ATK 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it. That would mean God is petty which I don't think he is. Any event unfolds due to circumstances which can't always be seen of traced to a specific origin but that doesn't mean they don't exist. I think God takes a hand off approach. Weather to my is like free will, something that God doesn't mess with.
Besides I am sure God could come up with more interesting and effective means than the occasional natural disaster.
2006-09-26 22:01:02 · answer #5 · answered by Jon H 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
NO. There are no more events happening in nature than ever before...less actually. There used to me more volcanoes, etc., when the earth was young.
What is different is that there are FAR more people on earth now than even 100 years ago, and we have the ability to transmit news instantaneously across the globe. Think about that before you start screaming it's the end of the world.
2006-09-26 22:06:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Except for JudaeoChristian and Muslim ... most world religions have a concept of "Fate" as "cruel,inexorable, capricious, not at all subject to Justice, whimsical" ... take Sophocles' plays ... Fate is its own separate thing ... not one of the Olympians ...
The same among the Hindu- Bhuddhists ... Sangsara ... The Wheel ... is cruel and inexorable ...
By the way- your question came to my attention from here:
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-nkXNdQA0f7X6e2Xy2nkYdg--?cq=1
I also elaborate on fate better there ... In the non-JudaeoChristain-Muslim faiths ... cruel "Fate" always seemed to have a "province" ... lol ...quite distinct from the normal "Godhead" so to speak ...
2006-09-27 02:30:08 · answer #7 · answered by gmonkai 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not to change the subject, but this was my initial thought response:
Why are people so willing to claim that God is willing to punish humans through weather, yet when environmental activists point toward weather pattern changes many people dismiss them as alarmists?
2006-09-26 22:09:50 · answer #8 · answered by raven7night 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Natural disasters have been around always. It's just that the history books don't remind that to us very often.
2006-09-26 22:07:10 · answer #9 · answered by Sergio__ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the answer is no. Why! the bible tell fortell of this disasters in the time in which we are living.
the bible answers the question saying far it be from the almighty God to act wickedly
2006-09-26 22:26:37 · answer #10 · answered by lbatuma 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋