Well, with all respect (and I mean that sincerely) it was a volcano.
I don’t think it had a ‘head’ for scripture.
I sometimes wonder if negative emotions in large swathes of a population can cause or contribute to natural disasters - but then I realize that lots of ‘good’ people die in those, too.
I think that God set the Universe up to run according to Law; people may interfere, but that doesn’t mean that every disaster indicates that a population ‘had it coming’
Sometimes they’re just in the way.
Romans 3:10
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one
Psalm 19
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard
Numbers 26:10
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
Genesis 19
24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
‘I think that God set the Universe up to run according to Law; people may interfere...Sometimes they’re just in the way...’
a perfect encapsulation of the deist philosophy; the creator creates, and then moves on to somewhere else....
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