[trailhkr1]

Piper said he doesn’t know why if God has a quarrel with America that he wouldn’t show his displeasure in Washington or Hollywood instead of places like Henryville, Ind., but that “every deadly wind in any town is a divine warning to every town.”

We have always had tornadoes even in the puritan gay 90's and the 1950's. Guys like this make Christians look like idiots.

[nuke rocketeer]

Most Calvinists are dour folks anyway.

[cld51860]

More fodder for the barely human debris that is Mike Malloy.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “We have always had tornadoes even in the puritan gay 90’s and the 1950’s. Guys like this make Christians look like idiots.” <<

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We have always had sin too.

Noobs like you make FR look gullible.

[Paved Paradise]

Piper is really a great preacher and man of God. I can’t say I know what is in his head or what he meant specifically, but I believe that God is sovereign and could stop any of the destruction that comes via weather. However, I also believe that He lets us reap what we have sown, which is this fallen world, including sin and death. That death should come from various means is the fruit WE planted, when Adam and Eve sinned. Meanwhile, I read a very interesting book by nuclear physicist Gerald Schroeder (”God According to God”) and he talks about the weather.

One more point. In Job, we learn that the just and righteous suffer. It rains on the just and the unjust. Evil people benefit from the good in this world - they can enjoy God’s beautiful sunsets, music, and all the good God has given us. Likewise, the righteous are subject to the evil that is rampant on this Earth.

I don’t think God is vindictive in the sense that some are taking Piper’s comments, because if that were so, I would suppose that retribution would come swift and early to people like Manson, the late Kim Jong Il, and others of their ilk.