Warnings from God?

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Im curious if anyone thinks God is or has sent warnings to people in the recent past or modern times? I have read a few things about the earthquake in Haiti being considered a warning from God, as the people there practiced Voodoo/ black magic, and other things that God considers to be wrong.

I think everyone can look at our world today and see how it is in very bad spiritual/moral shape, and there seems to get worse by the day, so it should be no surprise God would be sending warnings to people, but I cannot think of anything besides the Haiti quake that many people considered an actual warning from God.
 
I don’t think God is behind this event and others like it. If I was God and wanted to send a warning to humanity I wouldn’t just kill a bunch of people without even saying why. I would tell people what I wanted. And even if I did so something mass destructive I wouldn’t generalize my target like that, ie. I wouldn’t target an island without discrimination, because that would do as much harm to the good people living there as to the people I was “warning”.
PS: what’s voodoo?
 
it could be you and me being superstitious
Voodoo is witchcraft, curses, spells…that kind of thing.

God bless you!
 
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What do you mean? :confused:
 
Then yes, I agree. While I definitely do not mean to imply a passive picture of God (I have experienced three miracles in my life), we should not see everything as his doing.
I think it is odd that so many people think this was God’s doing. In my experience people are mostly wayyy too scared to say something is God. It seems that in everyday matters, everything supernatural is just a coicidence to most people (I don’t know a single other person that, having experienced the miracles I have, would have even thought of the possibility that God was behind them). But when it comes to big stuff, people see everything coincidental as God. ???.
 
The BIble tells us that God did visit punishment on particularly wicked nations, or even if His own people were fallen hard from His teaching. But if I understand Jesus correctly, He says don’t ever presume we Christians are in a position to know know if any disaster, man-made or natural, is due to divine punishment, because let’s face it, we all act pretty lousily to each other and are unfaithful to God’s commands, in Luke 13:13:
13 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
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There are some people practicing Voodoo in Haiti, but most people there are just like us - sometimes good and sometimes bad, with its fair proportion of sinners but also saints. I would guess that most Haitians, based on the time I’ve spent with them, tend to be good and caring people. Planned Parenthood committed 333,964 abortions in America last year. Who are we to say their country’s sins are worse than ours?
 
If God was punishing Haiti for having people who follow voodoo, is God also punishing the Phillipines who are nearly all Catholic?

I think it is the laws of nature that causes earthquakes and taiphoons and not God.
 
Some things probably are punishments from God, and others are not.

Surely, if all of us in the world were good people, followed our faith, prayed, performed the works of mercy, I doubt we’d even have as many disasters, but that’s just my opinion.
 
mikekle said:
Im curious if anyone thinks God is or has sent warnings to people in the recent past or modern times? I have read a few things about the earthquake in Haiti being considered a warning from God, as the people there practiced Voodoo/ black magic, and other things that God considers to be wrong.

I think everyone can look at our world today and see how it is in very bad spiritual/moral shape, and there seems to get worse by the day, so it should be no surprise God would be sending warnings to people, but I cannot think of anything besides the Haiti quake that many people considered an actual warning from God.
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The person that claimed that the Haiti earthquake was a warning or punishment from God was Pat Robertson who is not Catholic. He was soundly condemned by others for that comment. I wouldn’t be listening to him since he has been known to open his mouth and stick his foot in it. Your view that God goes around and send big natural disasters because this or that is very misguided. Natural disaters hurt the good and the bad and to look at them as God going around the smack people down is a rather sad view of God as our loving Father.
 
No I don’t think God uses natural disasters as punishments. I do think just like we need rain and sunshine, we need disaster for the earths elements. Wildfire to clear out the underbrush…isn’t a problem unless we populate that mountainside.

I don’t think we are overpopulating the world either. We are adapting, just like they did long ago when no one lived in the Middle USA and there weren’t any towns to be wiped out by tornados…the tornados still happened.

As for people sacrificing chickens and sticking pins in dolls wishing ill on their enemies…well lets pray for them to find guidance in The Lord, that they might experience His love and know that this wasted energy isn’t enriching them but tearing them down both here on earth and after death, Amen.
 
mikekle said:
Im curious if anyone thinks God is or has sent warnings to people in the recent past or modern times? I have read a few things about the earthquake in Haiti being considered a warning from God, as the people there practiced Voodoo/ black magic, and other things that God considers to be wrong.

I think everyone can look at our world today and see how it is in very bad spiritual/moral shape, and there seems to get worse by the day, so it should be no surprise God would be sending warnings to people, but I cannot think of anything besides the Haiti quake that many people considered an actual warning from God.
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I think caution is needed when subscribing to direct actions (warnings) by God.

There is a built-in universal constant throughout human history that a civilization which stands on principles and isn’t bridled with corruption and has moral stability with an eye for charity will be able to weather inevitable problems such as natural disasters.
 
Voodoo is an African spiritualism that deals with spirits or believes in them and involves service or deliverance from them. It is the dominate religion in Haiti.
 
Was Sodom and Gomorrah meant to be a warning to other cities?

Im sorry, but I cant believe EVERY SINGLE man, woman and child in those cities were guilty and deserved to die under those conditions, Im sure there was some collateral damage. plus it is said the damage was so bad to those 2 cities, it also caused some damage and death to nearby cities, so one has to wonder if God was punishing or warning others thru these 2 cities, why were other cities effected as well?

I dont know about anyone else, but it seems to me, God was more proactive back in biblical days, and if something similar to Sodom and Gomorrah happened today, they would have experts and other scientists giving us the explanation and they would NEVER attribute it to an act of God, either as a warning or punishment, they would give a sound scientific, natural explanation, and everyone would accept that.

In fact there are some scientists today that have looked at the destruction of Sodom/ Gomorrah and determined it was a natural event and not from God, so what should people believe? Catholics believe it WAS from God and done intentionally, but what if it was just some random natural event? Would that not have serious biblical implications?
 
mikekle said:
Im curious if anyone thinks God is or has sent warnings to people in the recent past or modern times? I have read a few things about the earthquake in Haiti being considered a warning from God, as the people there practiced Voodoo/ black magic, and other things that God considers to be wrong.

I think everyone can look at our world today and see how it is in very bad spiritual/moral shape, and there seems to get worse by the day, so it should be no surprise God would be sending warnings to people, but I cannot think of anything besides the Haiti quake that many people considered an actual warning from God.
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Earthquakes are not punishment from God. They are natural occurrences because of plate tectonics. God doesn’t punish people at this time and punishment will come on judgment day.
 
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mikekle:
Im sorry, but I cant believe EVERY SINGLE man, woman and child in those cities were guilty and deserved to die under those conditions, Im sure there was some collateral damage.
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Some people escaped those cities, remember?
 
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I’m not clear what you are asking…are you looking to blame people who have exercised the free will God gave them thereby jeopardizing their everlasting life for something that happened here on earth? Doesn’t make sense. It would discount the many Catholic and other Christian churches on the island.

Please talk face to face with a Catholic spiritual advisor to help you with this.
 
Could the recent tornados that hit Illinois have been some type of warning from God? Illinois is set to sign legislation legalizing same sex marriage this Wednesday.
 
mikekle said:
Im curious if anyone thinks God is or has sent warnings to people in the recent past or modern times? I have read a few things about the earthquake in Haiti being considered a warning from God, as the people there practiced Voodoo/ black magic, and other things that God considers to be wrong.

I think everyone can look at our world today and see how it is in very bad spiritual/moral shape, and there seems to get worse by the day, so it should be no surprise God would be sending warnings to people, but I cannot think of anything besides the Haiti quake that many people considered an actual warning from God.
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So rather than send missionaries to turn these people from their sinful ways your god decided to kill 100,000s of thousands of them, ending the chances of the corrupted at redemption? dosn’t make alot of sense to kill them if they must repent before they die to join him. Just saying. I dont realy buy into all the divine weather idea. They said the same thing about Katrina, blaming it on Voodoo or gay marriage.
 
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