I take it, John, that you are saying that God allowed this storm but
did not cause it. He knew it would happen but did not design it to
punish sinners. We discussed that in home church last night and
feelings were mixed. God is omniscient, so there is no argument that He knew what would happen. God is omnipotent, so He could have stopped it or altered the course. Why did He not do that? Anyone's guess. I suspect that there was not enough prayer by righteous people for a starter. Could be that He has set the forces of nature long ago and programmed them to do certain things at certain seasons, and sees better reasons for letting nature run it's course than for interfering. I heard one preacher say that if God directed the storm to punish gangs and casinos and rampant sin then you also have to blame God for the churches in that area that were leveled. His feeling, evidently was that God would never deliberately destroy a church. Someone in our group suggested that maybe those churches were luke warm and needed destroying, but that was just a possibility. I have no firm opinion either way, but Izzy gave a verse the other day in something she sent that sticks in my mind. Amos 3:6 where the prophet asks, "If there is calamity in a city, is it not God's doing?" Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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