[stuartcr]

Why do people find God only in the good things, ie the response of the people? Doesn't God have just as much to do with what happened, as in everything else?

[ELS]

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[Northern Yankee]

I think if we start blaming God for the deaths of hundreds of thousands then it soon becomes folly to believe in him at all.

I don't have an answer to this, nor does anyone.

I don't think God wills people to die. Nature plays a hand in this, and perhaps it just makes us realize how vulnerable we are to the whims of nature, and that we are not in complete control of our lives.

I just know that we don't have all the answers, but it is our faith that helps sustain us through these tragic times.

[Revelation 911]

Doesn't God have just as much to do with what happened, as in everything else?

Matthew 5: 44But I tell you: Love your enemies[a] and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?