Does God control the weather? Did he control the weather more in biblical days?

Question

Say....a massive rainstorm resulting in a flood as opposed to some rip-roaring Souther-Midwestern tearing up of the bible belt with tornadoes and hurricanes?

Answer 1

No I think the scientific explanation is the one we have to stay with on this though there are some who believe that God did set weather into motion...man really cannot say he has not messed with our weather or environment.
The Skeptical Christian
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 2

I hope everyone stops to read this before or after they post.

God DOES NOT control the weather.

If you think that the Biblical God, who is described as creating everything, all powerful and all knowing, controls the weather, than you are a pitiful follower. On the 7th day he rested. There was no more explanation of what he did next. I know for a fact the Bible did not say, "After the 7th day was over, God got up from his comfy thrown and said, 'you know what, i think I'll go over to this little bitty planet in the Milky Way Galaxy and make the wind swirl round and round 'til it blows over some of the little bitty trees and huts of those sinning ants.'"

So Bible people, blindly believe what you want and make your religion work however you want. That's how Paul convinced the Jews to be Christians right?

If you can believe God created the earth, than you can believe that God gave the earth it's own weather system, which can sometimes be unpredictable.

Answer 3

The flood was to destroy his creation who was wicked. He found favor in one, Noah, so he was spared. He wouldn't have been spared if he hadn't heeded to the Lord and built the ark. If he hadn't chose to do this all would have perished that day and you wouldn't be mad at any God for a tornado b/c we wouldn't be here.

I don't think that anyone would say God doesn't control the weather but why isn't anyone believing what he said at the time Christ walked the earth?

wars
nation against nation
famines
earthquakes . . . . . . here you go Cloe . . . . . natural disasters in various places.

false prophets
anti Christ

Stars falling
planets moving

Why aren't we taking his warning is the question. Would you blame him for the tsunami? For the famines in Africa? Or are those explainable? When it is unexplainable people blame God. Accuse him of such horrible things and say he lacks what it is he actually is made up of . . . . . . .love. Then when Christians or believers say things he IS responsible for we are quacks. Well it can only be one way or the other. If he is responsible and you would like to blame him for the bad, he must in turn be who we say has created all things and is responsible for the good.

God Bless

Answer 4

Well, it's for certain that the weather prognosticators don't control it. And with all of that expensive, top-notch highly technical computer-aided radar, no less. And they STILL can't seem to get it right??? Now, that's one job I'd LOVE to have! No control over the weather, and mispredicting it, and getting paid for it, too. Job security and no pink slip.

Wouldn't it be more simple to just look out the window and take a guess? As for controlling it, I've watched parents have even LESS control over their kids in the grocery store!

Answer 5

If gods control the weather then you have capricious gods. I do not think most people's definition of a god would include a capricious god. If there is a drought and people are praying for rain is your god unaware that there is a drought? Does he need prayers before he will do anything about it? Is he waiting until there are sufficient prayers in the prayer bank before acting? I don't think so.

Weather is indiscriminate. It destroys lives and property and is just as likely to kill a child as an adult. A caring god who controlled the weather would not allow such things. An uncaring god would just let the weather get on with it.

Answer 6

You have to keep in mind the men that wrote the Bible. The Bible was written by Jews. The mindset of the Jews in that day was that whenever something good was happening to the country, then God was blessing them. If something bad happened, God was choosing to curse them. It was their way to explain things and deal with things without any other way of understanding weather patterns, floods, and other things. It isn't that he controls the weather more or less. It is the different ways that people look at things. We now have more technology and know how things work -- global warming, jet streams, and other things that do affect the weather.

Answer 7

--No, he does not control the weather for any type of punishment in our times, in fact for at least the last 2000 years!
--About 3500 years ago he used forces in nature to bring about the 10 plagues on the Pharoah and the Egyptians.
-- After the tenth plague he staved off the Egyptian army with a pillar of fire, that might have resembled a tornado--And of course the parting of the Red Sea was no minor tide. (Ex. 9-15
--The severe weather conditions, could be involved with global warming etc.

--Yes, at times he did control the weather. Case in point!---When he told Israel in particular King Ahab, through his prophet Elijah, that there was going to be a draught for several years because of the Israelites wickedness, especially by Ahab & Jezebel:

(1 Kings 17:1) “And E·li´jah the Tish´bite from the inhabitants of Gil´e·ad proceeded to say to A´hab: “As Jehovah the God of Israel before whom I do stand is living, there will occur during these years neither dew nor rain, except at the order of my word!””

(1 Kings 18:45-46) “45 And it came about in the meantime that the heavens themselves darkened up with clouds and wind and a great downpour began to occur. And A´hab kept riding and made his way to Jez´re·el. 46 And the very hand of Jehovah proved to be upon E·li´jah, so that he girded up his hips and went running ahead of A´hab all the way to Jez´re·el.”

--In Bible times when God used the natural forces of nature that he created, only the wicked were destroyed as in the days of Noah, Sodom & Gommorah and other instances.
--At Armaggedon, his war, he indeed can & will use whatever force he wishes to. Moses mentions what he has, 'so to speak', stored up for that day of intervention:

(Job 38:22-23) “22 Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow, Or do you see even the storehouses of the hail, 23 Which I have kept back for the time of distress, For the day of fight and war?”

--There will be no question as to the source of direct intervening by God, but one thing is for sure he is not behind any of the calamities that naturally occur or are results of men RAPING the environment. Please note:

(James 1:13) “13 When under trial, let no one say: “I am being tried by God.” For with evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone. . .”

--Whether people want to attribute attrocities to Jehovah God, is up to them, but when God brought about any direct punishment---there was indeed NO QUESTION as to whom it was from!

Answer 8

NO!

The weather is a natural part of life on this planet.

Tornadoes, Hurricanes, rain stroms, snow stroms, and the like have clear causes in the natural world. There has NEVER been a single storm that just poof was there. There is always the build up in the enviroment!

There is NO GOD to screw with anything!
GOD is a delusion!

Answer 9

God controls everything. He doesn't murder people if that's what you mean. We are his creation and he can use us for his purpose however he wants. If we are supposed to die at a certain time, then we will. If God wants there to be a tornado in Alabama or a flood of the whole earth, then it will happen. God loves everyone, and we are part of his plan, and we might not like that plan, but "...in all things God works for the good of those who love him..." (part of Romans 8:28). Thanks for reading.

Answer 10

No, God doesn't control the weather. A long time ago people didn't understand the science of weather and couldn't make weather predictions. They attributed weather to the supernatural because they didn't understand it. Whenever we don't understand something, the easy way out is to say God did it.