[MHGinTN]

Too many confused ‘will of God’ with act of God.

There is a human tendency to attribute to God’s action/fault natural disasters which God uses to further His designs. Just because a natural disaster is at the heart of the world-wide flood(s), does not mean God caused the natural disaster. And what occurred world-wide may have been focused upon as it effected the Middle East specifically, thus such flooding world-wide over a period of time would not necessarily have to be the focus of the specific cultures the Bible describes as 'wiped out'. To the writer of the Bible, the scribe not the author dictating, the focus would be 'the whole world' if the scribe had no knowledge of the rest of the globe.

One needs to choose paths carefully, where one states God uses catastrophe and other path which asserts that God causes catastrophes. Anti-religion agenda driven posters will twist our words to read 'God causes the catastrohes' when our post actually only assert that God uses these natural disasters because He knows they are coming. These same posters will accuse that God sends people to Hell, when in reality He has made a way to avoid Hell and it is the rejection of His gift that sends someone away form His presence.

[Quix]

I appreciate your point.

However, there’s ample Biblical example of God actually deliberately causing great disasters . . . Moses and Pharoah . . . for example.

And, at some point . . . it’s a bit moot if God allows reaping what’s been sown . . . the effect is essentially the same as if God arranged it independently on His own, imho.

Thx.

[ahayes]

Gen. 6:13 "Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.""

Gen. 6:17 "Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish."

Gen. 7:23 "Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark."

I don't think God is interested in your PR campaign. He seems to want everyone to know that he planned and carried out the destruction of the world.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for sharing your views, dear brother in Christ!

Truly, God's will includes not only His active will but His permissive will as well.