2007-09-18 07:18:03 · 31 answers · asked by Jenae, TV (tempter of the vile) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's merely contractual language so that your insurance company doesn't have to pony up the cash when you lose your house in an earthquake or flood or severe storm.
Lawyers have families to feed too, you know.
2007-09-18 07:24:31 · answer #1 · answered by samans442 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No! They are natural disaster, literally a "disaster" in nature. Nothing is perfect and mistakes, disasters, happen. **** happens - thats life - that is the world we live in. If it is god acting out these disasters then we are truely screwed!
2007-09-18 07:26:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just an old-fashioned way of saying something that was caused by a non-human caused event. It persists because it has a legally defined meaning in insurance law, but the meaning doesn't actually include action by god.
2007-09-18 07:35:02 · answer #3 · answered by BAL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well its really just a saying, but because everything that happens is because God wills it, they could have thought of that to explain disasters, but then again a tree growing is an act of God. and have you ever wondered who "they" are?
2007-09-18 07:26:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, i dont know why anyone would associate a disaster with God.
When i think of "acts of God", i think of miracles that happen to people or things. Natural disasters showcase the shear power that exists in the world.
Funny how we hardly hear about miracles, but always hear about disasters and tragedies.
2007-09-18 07:26:06 · answer #5 · answered by Mike G 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some have always got to blame others. Since records have been kept it has been so. The writer's of The Holy Bible have said that man first blamed woman who blamed the serpent. Somebody always lies about truth. Life hangs in that balance. God is watching to see that nothing upsets it until He decides that we are beyond redemption. Until then, there is always Hope.
2007-09-18 07:28:12 · answer #6 · answered by midnite rainbow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Insurance copmpanies use the phase when they don't want to pay. Isaiah 14:14-17 God is not a man.
2007-09-18 07:35:27 · answer #7 · answered by ShadowCat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to what i read in revelation..it would result that many come from God..the most of them..but i understand that because the people will be sinners (listening to satan)..satan and the demons(the fallen angels)would be allowed to trouble a part of the people (those who didn't obey to God )so hard that they would preffer to die..but it will be imposible to die......at revelation says that at the end of the times..even the sun will be very hard on people and that they will speak against God..i think that saying that a phenomena like this and this ..is a //natural ..and not made by God..means speaking against God..this summer it was such a heat in my country in the south ..that many thought they will die..God took me to mountain..before the biggest heat have come...i would have dies..if not of heat..then of panic...two of my friends thought is was the end..
2007-09-18 07:34:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this may also be from biblical times when God sent locusts, and caused great hail to fall among many other events. I think about acts of God, when I hear people disrespecting God. I would be looking over my shoulder if I were them. :)
2007-09-18 07:26:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they're called acts of God simply due to their magnitude and power. Not necessarily that they believe God came and stirred up the winds, threw lighting and water and sabotaged their town.
2007-09-18 07:24:51 · answer #10 · answered by wendalynne 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋