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Well, I went to 16 years of undergraduate protestant schools where Bible courses, eschatology, and even biblical greek were taught. So, I'm not likely to smear Christianity as a whole.

Of course, my graduate degree at a secular institution might have erased all that early training.

I do think that people who think earthquakes are God's punishment are kooks and fruitcakes. As someone who is familiar with the pictures we can see seismically far under the surface, there have been countless of earthquakes over geological time. Billions. I can see the evidence of them.

I don't know of any evidence in the bible that indicates that God causes them. Maybe I was asleep in class that day.

Look at the post directly after yours. If you support that, we don't have much more to discuss.

I do think that people who think earthquakes are God's punishment are kooks and fruitcakes.

But people who think floods are God's punishment are just fine?

As someone who is familiar with the pictures we can see seismically far under the surface, there have been countless of earthquakes over geological time. Billions. I can see the evidence of them.

How does your being able to see evidence or past earthquakes mean it's not possible God might use one to punish humanity? Did rain fall from the sky at all in the years prior to the Great Flood (if it's called that)? Or did he just invent rain spontaneously in a fit of rage?

I don't know of any evidence in the bible that indicates that God causes them. Maybe I was asleep in class that day.

I believe what I said was that the Bible has accounts of God using natural disasters to punish man. For you to cherry pick which disasters God might or might use today is as presumptuous as those who claim to know what God thinks.

Look at the post directly after yours. If you support that, we don't have much more to discuss.

How about you hold me accountable for what I say. If you have an issue with somebody else's post, take it up with them.

Well, I went to 16 years of undergraduate protestant schools where Bible courses, eschatology, and even biblical greek were taught. So, I'm not likely to smear Christianity as a whole.
Of course, my graduate degree at a secular institution might have erased all that early training.

I do think that people who think earthquakes are God's punishment are kooks and fruitcakes. As someone who is familiar with the pictures we can see seismically far under the surface, there have been countless of earthquakes over geological time. Billions. I can see the evidence of them.

I don't know of any evidence in the bible that indicates that God causes them. Maybe I was asleep in class that day.

Look at the post directly after yours. If you support that, we don't have much more to discuss.

What about Noah & the Great Flood Chastisement. What do you think caused the Walls of Jericho to fall? Lets hope your not asleep if the Great Chastisement happens in your lifetime.