2007-02-02 02:08:58 · 13 answers · asked by GODZILLA 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is another question along the lines of "why do bad things happen to good people?" God has never taken away the problems of mankind, although He mourns with us when we mourn. God allows mankind adversity to make us stronger. It is not wrong to pray for relief either! And when the relief comes after the hard moments, are we not grateful? Do we not praise God for His tender mercies? No, God will not stop these things from happening. They give us the opportunity to serve people who need help and grow and be better people...if we choose.
2007-02-02 02:28:50 · answer #1 · answered by Fotomama 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He could stop it if He wanted to since He's the One who created the tsunami in the first place. He's God, He can do whatever He wants.
2007-02-02 10:13:30 · answer #2 · answered by kenrayf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deuteronomy 8:4 gives us a little glimpse of how things might have been in the original creation. “Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.” God is omnipotent and perfectly capable of sustaining and protecting his creation.
When Adam sinned, however, the Lord cursed the universe. In essence there was a change and along with that change God seemingly took away a little bit of his sustaining power and allowed things like suffering and death into His creation. Now He permits bad things to happen—and this is a reminder that sin has consequences and that the world needs a Savior. Romans 8:22 says, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”

God took pleasure in all of His creation ("http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=revelation+4:11&version=NKJV"), but He loved people most of all. He allowed the created universe to deteriorate so we would see the consequences of our sin. If we did not see the consequences of our sin, we would never see that we need salvation from our sin, and we would never accept His offer of mercy for our sin. Most people easily recognize that there is a problem in the world. This can be used to show them that there is one who has overcome this problem of death and suffering—Jesus Christ.
2007-02-02 11:57:30 · answer #3 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He does have the power, but He gave us free will, and we in turn are destroying the earth He gave us with that free will. We are suffering the fate of our own selfish neglect of this earth with every tsunami, earthquake, flood or whatever. We have to be accountable for our own actions, even though we don't think we should.
2007-02-02 10:13:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF.......IF..............IF............. What do mean by if? If God couldn't stop a tsunami, He wouldn't be God. He created the universe, of course He could stop a tsumani. Would He? That is another question to which only He knows the answer.
2007-02-02 10:15:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God wake up any day and decide to kill a few thousand by tsunami, is not reason to stop it !!!
2007-02-02 10:16:47 · answer #6 · answered by thor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That`s like asking ;if your boss had the power to give you a raise every day would he?
2007-02-02 10:12:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He has the power
But he doesn't want to because people did bad things and are not following what God commanded to them
2007-02-02 10:15:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is all powerful, He can do anything. However, He has given us free-will and that includes how we deal with natural disasters.
2007-02-02 10:12:39 · answer #9 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He does have the power to stop them.........
Why question God?
2007-02-02 10:12:27 · answer #10 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋