I was watching a documentary on asteroids and found that the last time a really big asteroid hit the Earth, 2/3 of all species on Earth were exterminated. This happened at the end of the dinosaur age about 65 million years ago.
There is no reason to suppose prayer is useless unless one believes life is worthless and meaningless…
I wouldn’t worry about all that. The odds of a major strike in any 100 year period are low. However, with all the natural disasters that have been publicly prayed for, can anyone recall one that subsequent to the prayer did not happen? Disasters are a natural part of the functioning of our universe, and God seems to have no interest in controlling them.
We will all die eventually; in that case it would be together. I am pretty sure that one would find the vast majority of people praying, only a small percentage of whom would be praying to have it all go away. But then, the people of Nineveh prayed and they were spared; you never know.
In California there is a lot of talk of “The Big One”, a huge disastrous earthquake. The Geological Survey and Cal Tech Geologists predict a big one in the next thirty years.
Very true! We can miss the “small” answers to prayer, because we don’t see a “great big” answer.
So, when God intervenes, he picks and chooses who to save and who to let die, including children?
How do you suppose God chose the 50% children in Galilee who died before the age of five?
I have no idea since I don’t lay that type of thing at God’s feet. Nor do I credit Him with the creation of those children.
Whomever He chooses, since life is eternal, He makes it up to them for any suffering they may have endured in this life, but giving them eternal bliss.
I would do as I believe he does…leave everything to happen as it happens. No interference
When I watch an eight-year-old suffer for months, choking, bleeding, screaming in pain for her mother, etc. No trade-off would make me think very highly of any god involved in that. No loving God would have any rational reason for such an action, and that is one of the primary reasons that I am a Deist.
I have taken the opposite direction as I age. I don’t believe it is necessary. Mankind is naturally moral with the obvious exceptions.We managed to exist for many thousands of years prior to Christ and never brought about our own demise. We created laws and engineering marvels, civilizations, had children and so on.
How does that prove that God isn’t loving, any more than your permitting your 5 yr old to be stuck with mutliple needles in an attempt to get an IV catheter inserted proves you are not a loving father?
That should be obvious: Because I am not the creator of the Universe. I didn’t give that little girl to her family just to snatch her cruelly away because I can.
