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3 days ago · Since the Bible does not say it, any connection to climate change would only be speculation. In Revelation, this destruction directly results from God’s judgment. We see hail, fire mixed with blood, and the burning of the earth. Looking at this prophecy, it is challenging to connect this to climate change because this judgment results from ...
Apr 24, 2024 · Then we come across passages in the Bible that show us that there really IS more going on! One such passage is in the Gospel of Matthew when Jesus is teaching his disciples on the Mount of Olives about some events that they can expect to take place.
- Robert Hampshire
- The Genesis Flood
- Biblical Approaches to Suffering
- God Is Merciful
Some of the earliest narratives of divine retribution go back to 2000 B.C. The Sumerian Epic of Gilgameshtells the story of a catastrophic flood. The gods decide to bring rain down to end the “uproar” of humankind. But the god of the waters, Enki, warns the righteous man, Utnapishtim, about the impending disaster. Utnapishtim saves himself and his ...
The question of God’s anger is intimately connected to the problem of human suffering. After all, how can a loving God cause indiscriminate human misery? We first need to look at how suffering is portrayed in the texts. For example, it is also in the Book of Isaiah that we find the story of the “Man of Sorrows” – a man who takes on the sufferings o...
Some theologians totally reject the idea of suffering as divine retribution because such an act would be unworthy of a mercifulGod. From a Christian perspective, God also suffered by being crucified on the cross as Jesus Christ. And so, as a Roman Catholic scholar, I would argue that God suffers with people in Texas and Florida – as well as with th...
- Mathew Schmalz
Jun 17, 2021 · God has said, “I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things” (Isaiah 45:7). Natural disaster or natural beauty — it all declares the omnipotence of God.
Nov 11, 2024 · In the Olivet Discourse of Matthew 24, he lists several end times events and calls these birth pangs like a woman in labor with a child. Painful. Intense. Yet a promise of new life at the end. Many today look at the world around us, see the headlines, and wonder if we are living in the end times.
Mar 25, 2010 · Scripture does not distance God from disasters and secondary evils the way his children often do. God makes an unapologetic statement about himself: “I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things” (Isaiah 45:7).
A careful reading of the Doctrine and Covenants shows that it speaks apocalyptically, as did the Apostle John, of “the calamity of the wicked” and of the need of preparing God’s servants “against the day of burning” (D&C 109:46). Much of it reads like a modern extension of John’s book of Revelation.
