Could God irrigate Africa?

Question

I know God probably has a better idea of what is best for the world than I do and all but I just figured that starvation was a bad thing.....


I guess that since he hasn't done it yet perhaps it isn't the right time....


"The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) said in December that more than 38 million people across Africa are at risk of starvation."

"The United States and other Western governments spent millions of dollars to send grain surpluses to Ethiopia then. Aid workers contend that money would have been better spent on long-term solutions such as irrigation."

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/01/25/africa.famine/

Answer 1

No time.
God's too busy making sure that people pass their final exams, and watching what consenting adults do with each other in the privacy of their homes.
He can't be concerned with starvation, disease, and other such trifling matters.

Answer 2

The reason there is starvation over there is because all the men run rampant and unchecked, on there murderous killing spree's. The men just love thier Genocide parties. When do they ever till the land? In africa, the women are worse off than in any other land. They have no rights to refuse a man anything. Where ever you find a gross imbalance like this, you will find genocide and war. (Men running amok, unrestrained.). But to answer your question, yes, Africa could be irrigatted, when men beat thier swords into pruning hooks. When men turn from war, to cultivation.

Answer 3

I'd agree with the aid workers, especially since the grain they are given is usually taken by the governments of many of the countries. But I do suspect that if the land was more fertile, the leaders would just raise the taxes.

Answer 4

Well the rainforest is being stripped due to Adam and Eve's sin thousands of years ago. Africa needs rain but it needs the forest to bring the rain.

God is punishing the Africans because that is where the original garden of eden was. You are right. God knows best.

God just wouldn't be God without executing his wrath on the innocents.

Answer 5

For what it prices to exhibit that advertisement on television they could feed each starving newborn interior the international. Take the inhabitants and the conventional income of those eating and then divide it by potential of value per minute of economic and also you hit upon they don't look to be doing that to feed the starving. those who're starving is because those in potential over them pick them to in uncomplicated words die. So if ships finished of nutrition change into sitting on the docks those children does no longer get it. lots of the money donated to help starving children in Africa it change into stated not in any respect see a penny of that money or any nutrition.

Answer 6

It's irrigation system got ruined when it was colonized by the British and they planted all these European trees that didn't belong there. It threw off the whole ecosystem. They suck up all the water. God's not going to do anything about it. They need people to help cut those trees down.

Answer 7

There are many things this country and its government could do a lot better.

I'm afraid aid to Africa will have to take a number and not hold its breath.

Answer 8

There are much worse things than starvation and I'm afraid many of you out there will soon find out what. Don't take my word for it. Just read the Bible with an open mind and heart.

Answer 9

I appreciate your subtle irony.
However, you have no idea how right you are when you say "...it isn't the right time."
God has indeed promised to intervene in men's affairs, but timing is everything.
The promise is in Isaiah 35:1-2
"The wilderness and the waterless region will exult, and the desert plain will be joyful and blossom as the saffron. Without fail it will blossom,. . ."

Answer 10

God does not have coercive control over the events of the universe.