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Lets just assume that there is a God, the God of the NewTestament, Torah and Qur'an, then what would be his/her role in this catastrophe?.
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237.. could, but not likely. The reason that there was an earthquake is that when one plate is being subducted (at 8cm per year here) the plates stick and don't slide then unstick to produce an earthquake as the stress in the rock is released. The longer the period the greater the unrelieved stress. If it happened again next year it would be about one thousandth of the recent big quake or 5.9 approximately on the richter scale.( I am open to corrections by an expert in plate tectonics).
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I have recently started attending church, partly because I am getting married there and partly because I want to believe there is something more than this life. However I find it hard to understand like others, why, if there is a God do such bad things happen.
I do believe (just because of the way things have panned out in my life) that everything happens for a reason and there is a lesson to be learnt from everything that happens to you.
I do believe (just because of the way things have panned out in my life) that everything happens for a reason and there is a lesson to be learnt from everything that happens to you.
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birdie, as a parent you have, within reason, to let your children do things that are risky because it's one of the ways they learn and become independent. You may know that when they fall off the chair they are jumping up and down on they'll get hurt. But it's better for them to find out for themselves by falling off the chair than by falling off the top of a building.
We live on a world where disasters, natural and man made, happen. We can do our best to prevent the man made ones, and deal with the natural ones as best we can. For the faithful such disasters are a test, as are the normal everyday troubles we all have.
God has laid down a set of rules for living well - follow them and you will get to heaven, don't follow them and you'll be sorry. So when you are faced with a disaster of some kind, it's how you behave that matters. The test in is whether you stick with God's rules or not, even when not doing so will make things a lot easier for you.
Even your own questions about how an all knowing God could have let this happen become a test of faith, in the sense that the answer is "I don't know, but I believe anyway". so, congratulations ! Even in your unbelief you are, for the faithful, doing some of God's work in the world !
We live on a world where disasters, natural and man made, happen. We can do our best to prevent the man made ones, and deal with the natural ones as best we can. For the faithful such disasters are a test, as are the normal everyday troubles we all have.
God has laid down a set of rules for living well - follow them and you will get to heaven, don't follow them and you'll be sorry. So when you are faced with a disaster of some kind, it's how you behave that matters. The test in is whether you stick with God's rules or not, even when not doing so will make things a lot easier for you.
Even your own questions about how an all knowing God could have let this happen become a test of faith, in the sense that the answer is "I don't know, but I believe anyway". so, congratulations ! Even in your unbelief you are, for the faithful, doing some of God's work in the world !
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