I'm ordained too with eight years of undergrad and grad school, Greek and Hebrew and all the rot - it all means nothing.
You are committing the fallacy of reification - you are positing abstractions and theories as if they are concrete realities.
Deity doesn't have to be all powerful to be Deity. Is omnipotence or power defined by the ability to manipulate to dominate, to force, to kill? Or is can it be defined by the potency of love, of relationship, of solidarity in suffering?
I do not accept your opinion that storms - especially big ones - are meaningful or purposeful; neither sent by an omnipotent Deity. If any person acted in the manner some religious folks attribute to God they would be deemed psychotic and sent to prison.
Hmmn, ever read the Bible?
Ever hear of the Ten Plagues, preacher?
I'M CREEPING DEEEAAATH!
I hated to see exnavychick leave.....I understand people come and go all the time...but to head over to CP after the way they trashed her after she announced her delivery on FR? She should find that thread and read it and then see if she would like to stay at CP. Come back exnavychick....FR is still a great place.....