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Oct 22, 2024 · But what does the Bible have to say about natural disasters? Quite a lot actually. From Genesis to Revelation, we see God’s hand using natural disasters – and rescuing us from them.
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
Most Relevant Verses. Isaiah 45:7. Verse Concepts. The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these. Psalm 18:18.
Using famine, drought, crop failure, epidemics, and "natural" disasters as examples of divine wake-up calls, He says, "Yet you have not returned to Me" (verses 6, 8-11). For a people who know God, calamity is not haphazard!
- 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
8 Bible Verses about The Fall Of America Isaiah 60:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
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The Bible says, “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2). We don’t necessarily know why God allows natural disasters to occur; sometimes Satan seems to have a hand in them. But the time to prepare for life’s crises is now, not when they strike.
