God has not intervened since the creation, If he is omnipotent he could stop earthquakes and tsunamis?

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(acts of god by the way) or cure cancer, ebola or any one of some incredibly nasty diseases with a click of his fingers but he doesn't. Why not?

Karl C That's not a very christian response. I take it you don't know the answer

I'm not talking about stubbing your toe, I'm talking major suffering and innocent people.

Cancer isn't anything to do with free will either, ypu don't choose to get it

Answer 1

The problem of evil, one the church has never given an answer to and never will.

Then they talk about free will yet they STILL pray to him for things to happen and still believe that miracles happen. The whole thing is riddled with contradictions.

Either your god lit the blue touchpaper and retired OR he intervenes, if he intervenes he seems particularly fickle and dare I say it evil, condemning new born babies to die in Darfur while answering your pryers for a new condo here.

Answer 2

If God created all, and disease, and called it good, then what right does man have to try to eradicate a condition that God made? If He created it and is the only Creator, then it is true, good, and eternal. Christ put an end to this error of thought by healing.

To make a long story short, God created what is true and eternal (heaven – spiritual and pure harmony on earth, the earth the human eye can’t see or ever will), and He did not create anything else that is false, has life or power of its own, or seems to be another god, such as a mortal. Along these lines one can find truth. The ones who harbor doubt, never spread their wings to get ready for some new air. They remain stagnant on earth, in confusion and asking the same questions in their minds endlessly. This is where the leap of faith comes into play.

Answer 3

In years past scientists invented a doctrine called, "lineal ascent." Lineal ascent means that we are the smartest generation what ever was. Scientists also tell us that the earth is 4.5 billion years old and (while applying a term called Uniformitarianism) they say the earth has changed gradually by a process called tectonics.

Those two concepts are contradictory. When I was a kid, there were fresh water pollywog ponds everywhere. How come (if we are so smart) that those scientists can't see that those pollywog ponds would have grown over billions of years ago?

Earthquakes and tsunamis aren't nice but I think they are part of a dynamic earth that keeps the mountains growing, the fresh water flowing, and the trees and the grass making the earth green.

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Answer 4

Actually the bible has many instances of God intervening after the creation. Think of all the examples: Asking Abraham to sacrifice his son, telling Noah to build an ark and the great flood, giving Moses the 10 commandments etc. The last time God intervenes in the bible is the tormenting of Jobe. When the story of Jobe comes to an end he gives God a bit of a talking to about interfering in his life like that and God is never heard from directly again.

One might conclude that He realized after the Jobe incident that it is better to leave mankind alone from then on. It's much like a parent realizing the child is a grownup now and should be allowed to make his own decisions. From that incident forward man has made his own bed and will have to lie in it.

Answer 5

I disagree that God has not intervened since creation.
As far as the disasters, these are natural phenomena of a planet's weather system. Some may even be intensified by man made pollution.
Since the fall of man, sickness is also a natural occurrence.
Why should God favor us when much of the world doesn't even believe He exists?
I believe that some day God will intervene and remake this world into what it was before the fall of mankind.

Answer 6

The first thing I want to point out is this. A Yahoo User named Ashley asked this question a couple of days ago :
Do atheists claim "Acts of God" in their insurance policy should their property be damaged by a thunderstorm?
The majority of atheists said thunderstorms were an act of nature,not God. So why in this question is an earthquake and tsunami an act of God,not nature? Do atheists change their minds on certain things just to suit their arguments? Isn't that just a tad hypocritical?
With that said...All acts of nature and even illnesses and diseases have a scientific explanation.
1. Earthquakes
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/ASK/earthquakes.html
2. Tsunamis
http://ioc3unesco.org/itic/categories.php?category_no=138
3. Cancer
http://cancer.about.com/od/causes/a/causerisks.htm
4. Ebola
http://www.mamashealth.com/infect/ebola.asp

Since science nowadays seems to be the "god" of the people,why aren't you asking the scientists why they haven't been able to stop all these disasters? Since they know what causes them,they should be able to come up with the solutions.
All these occurrences are the natural order of things.Actually,if you want to get technical in science terms,doesn't the Darwinian natural selection explain all this?I mean,those who get cancer and other diseases are,by law of evolution,being weeded out by natural selection,and only the strongest survive.Wouldn't that be the argument of the evolutionists? Mutations and natural selection? And then there must be an evolutionary explanation for acts of nature.Maybe also an act of natural selection. Who knows. AllI know is that people are doing their very best to take God out of the equation and then have the gall to ask why He doesn't stop all bad things from happening.
Believe it or not,God does intervene. You just aren't opening your eyes to it.He still heals people. He healed my daughter of Cystic Fibrosis. Explain that in scientific terms if you can. And I believe there would be a lot more natural disasters if God wouldn't be intervening on our behalf. But things are going to get worse,and it's not God's fault. It is mankind's fault. We bring many things on ourselves through actions of our own making,not just a few people,but the entire world. Everyhting we do,good or bad,sets off a chain of events around us. You take 6 billion people around the world doing whatever and add that up. It impacts the entire world in one way or another. Just about everything we eat or drink,and even the very air we breathe,can cause some kind of cancer or disease,and mutations in our offspring.
When are people going to stop blaming God for everything and take some responsibility for their own actions?
A quote from Stephen Hawking explains it in simple terms :
" It has certainly been true in the past that what we call intelligence and scientific discovery have conveyed a survival advantage. It is not so clear that this is still the case: our scientific discoveries may well destroy us all..."

Answer 7

Maybe because of sin? Though it may be mere myth, in the Genesis account after the original sin things like thorns grew, and there is prophecy that when Christ returns the lion will lay near the sheep and they wont fight or whatever.... Maybe nature was meant to be perfect before sin, but after sin God withdrew much of his aid. Also he said let mankind have dominion over the earth, but maybe after the first sin he essentially said, "Alright, you don't want me, you can handle all the problems yourself". I was reading Revelations a few weeks ago and though, "Why would there be a new earth?", why not just a heaven, and I thought about how corrupted the earth is and maybe the new earth will be as it was meant to be - without disasters, disease, etc, where all the animals will be vegetarians or whatever...... I don't know though, the question about diseases and disasters does not deter me from faith. My faith does not require the earth to be perfectly free from disease or disasters... Its just the way it is, and I'm not going to complain to God about it. If he is the cause to it, then his reason is surely greater than my imagination can stir up, and if he is not guilty of causing it, then I cannot blame him. So I just leave it be, and if I can help someone I will.

Answer 8

Quite the contrary, the Bible clearly states that the end times will bring pestilences, wars, disasters, apostasy, the beast etc. This is because as the world turns it's face away from God, He will not be there. In the Iraq Report it's advising to practically turn on Israel and if that is accepted God's blessing will be removed, then US will really have big trouble. BTW God is good-mankind is corrupted

Answer 9

You know...

People hate God. They despise God. They disobey God. They forget God. They don't have faith in God.

However, when people are in distress they certainly expect God to be their personal lapdog and come to them when they call.

God certainly could do all those things. Faith does not come from miracles. If it did we might see miracles all the time.

Why he doesn't? He is not a puppet master. He started things and lets things take its natural course through life.

Good and bad things happen to good and bad people. The rain falls on everyone just the same.

This world is the way it is and it will not change until eternity comes.

However, any answer to this question will only be an opinion. Who can know the reasons for God's actions other than what he has spelled out to us?

So, in my opinion, the answer to your question is this:

It is to show us that we are simply powerless in this universe and we need to rely on Him who is not powerless in this universe.

Answer 10

Hundreds of millions prayed for this god creature to stop Hitler before he caused 30+ million to die during WWII and he did NOTHING. A simple little blood clot would have done the trick, say in 1934, but NOOOOOO. If this god creature could turn a good woman into a pillar of salt for looking over her shoulder, why couldn't he answer the prayers to end evil. Either this god is heartless, powerless, both, or does not exist at all.

Answer 11

Because God's omnipotence is the omnipotence of suffering love, not the omnipotence of a universal despot.

Your question, BTW, is right on. It points out how people have made God in the image of a human tyrant. But the whole point is that Jesus reveals God to us -- and Jesus was crucified. The essence of Christianity is not the "omnipotent" God -- it's the crucified God. And that love which suffers with us *will* create wholeness and victory out of pain and death. But he never willed and never wills pain for us; he wills life for us. Suffering is from created things, not from God.

And I get thumbs down for that. Go figure. Or go read Jurgen Moltmann or something.