In a deeply personal and candid article, he says "it would be wrong" if faith were not "upset" by the catastrophe which has already claimed more than 150,000 lives.
Excuse me, but I just don't see why. I see it as validation of our own fallen state and how creation groans under our nature.
Dan
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With Dr. Rowan Williams liberal stance on homosexuals would we/should we expect anything other type of comment from him? That being said it annoys me to see people living their lives anyway they wish denying the existance of God and as soon as a disaster happens they question why God would allow such a thing.
If one is a believer in God we know we are only passing through this life to the next. That being said death is part of the process of going to God-and God is in full control of when and how that will happen. All the hairs on our head are numbered and when it is our time that's it. We are not those who have no hope.
Well said. It looks like Dr. Rowan Williams does not believe in the Total Depravity of Man and does not understand the terrible curse of sin mankind is caught up in. For Adam's sin, it would be right for God to have wiped out all mankind and, indeed, God was right in destroying the Earth with a flood during the time of Noah.
When Adam sinned, he plunged the human race and creation into futility and we should not be surprised, or our faith shaken when sin erupts or the creation groans; it can be expected (and indeed, some times even predicted).
With the sound doctrine of the Total Depravity of man, one can face such things without trepidation and loss of faith. Instead, being founded upon the Rock, which is Christ, we can stand and be of service.
Pray that a leader of faith, who follows the narrow path of Christ would be given this denomination or that the lampstand would be taken away and given to another.