Does God use natural disasters to punish?

Question

Somebody in another post mention this "Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment on New Orleans because of all the gays, blacks, and sinfulness there" and it brought back memories of myself being told this by alot of Christians at the time. Do you as a Christian believe this to be true also?

These are NOT my views but the views of some Christians.

Answer 1

That reminds me of when AIDS first came on the scene and all the bible thumpers said god was punishing gays for their lifestyle.

Hurricanes happen because they are natures way of redistributing the heat on the planet. If people are dumb enough to continously rebuild on the coast, in flood plains, in valleys that have swift moving fires....well, they deserve what they get. You can't keep building in the same places that disasters hit and pretend it won't happen to you.

Answer 2

If He did it would not be a "natural disaster" because if it is natural it is simply a regularly occurring world event.

Natural disasters are only disasters because people are either ignorant or stupid enough to live in an area where such things occur such as on a fault line, in tornado alley, on a volcano, in a floodplain, etc or such people do not equip themselves properly for surviving such events like "the foolish man who built his house on sand" or "the three little pigs" (only the smart pig uses brick).

Hurricane Katrina was a great example of the stupidity/ignorance of people, because they refused to evacuate or take other correct forms of survival regarding a category 5 hurricane possibly due to lack of realization of the aftermath of such a storm.

Remember: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"

God may manifest his wrath in the form of weather or other worldly events such as with Soddom and Gemorrah or Egypt but these are not events that were foreseen by the inhabitants and the inhabitants were well-deserving, contrarywise with Nineveh the people knew about the upcoming event and did all they could to stop it.

Answer 3

Death came into the world with sin. The beautiful creation God created became corrupted too. So, now nature is capable of killing. I don't think God causes disasters to punish individual sins, but I believe that nature kills because sin marred the earth.

God used the flood in Noah's day, but sent a rainbow saying He would never destroy the earth with a global flood again. During the OT times, if Israel sinned by worshiping idols, God would curse them with plagues and the like. But know we are under grace. God still corrects us, but I don't think His correction comes in the form of hurricanes, etc...

Answer 4

there is not any way of understanding if God is manipulating climate types or no longer. In particular circumstances interior the scriptures he makes use of the climate to deliver judgement, yet we've not got any info to think of he's doing this all of the time, or perhaps interior the present day. I keep in mind all of the "God destroyed New Orleans because of the fact of Southern Decadence and all of the gay human beings" declarations in genuine Fawellian trend. it incredibly is somewhat nasty and inflammatory i think of, and it is going to private lack of know-how making statements like that supposedly wearing authority which you do no longer even have. And this is incredibly hassle-free to proclaim that when the certainty too. ought to it have been from God? this is achievable, yet there is not any way of understanding that, that's why we would desire to constantly in no way thunder such drivel. What if, basically what if, Katrina became basically an invaluable typhoon brought about by using a organic sequence of events at sea? I keep in mind whilst Benny Hinn mentioned the gay community may well be decimated by using hearth from God in 1995. The final I checked, they are nonetheless right here. What we do understand is that the international would be destroyed by using God with hearth, sometime; sometime interior the destiny, and it incredibly is ineffective attempting to predict whilst.

Answer 5

I've said it a million times, and I'll say it again...

If God was aiming for New Orleans, he had some pretty crappy aim! It smacked the Mississippi Gulf Coast good too, and if the levees hadn't failed in New Orleans, we would have more damage than them. The hurricane itself did very little to New Orleans. The aftermath made the levees break.

Answer 6

I'm not sure because I know that hurricanes happen because of natural events. The world is getting hotter and causing these storms. People are making the world hotter by doing things like destroying the ozone layer and cutting down rain forests. These things keep the temperatures on earth under control and keeps hurricanes under control. A lot of things happening on earth are our fault. I do believe God will allow these things that we caused to happen though.

Answer 7

Only Pat Robertson claims natural disasters are part of God's wrath. The disasters just happen. God does not control the weather as much as we think. But, hey, I am an Agnostic, and I have a very complex view of God and I don't believe the same things as Christians.

Answer 8

I would say it is a wake up call to all the people that for some stupid reason think they are going to live forever and not have to pay for their sins. And as you know this country is trying to shut God out and that will be the end to our strength.
Remember God made David able to defeat Goliath with a rock and a sling shot. He is able to do whatever He sees as necessary to wake people up to the true reality before its too late. Take care and may God bless you spiritually.

Answer 9

No Jehovah God is not at fault for these things.
With evil things God can not be tried nor does he himself try anyone. If a man tells you God is causing these things to punish human beings do not believe this. No where in the Bible does it say that God causes these natural disasters to punish people. God is love.
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2003/2/15/article_02.htm

Answer 10

That's a -HORRIBLE- interpretation. The wage for sin is death, and death only. If God wanted to justly kill the people of New Orleans, -EVERYONE- would have died, no one would have lived. In the Old Testament, every time God commands the Hebrews to wipe out a village or civilization, He commanded for all of them to be killed. No one would have lived. And every time that the Hebrews didn't follow through, those same people ended up enslaving them a hundred years later or so.