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Calamities seen in the light of sacred scripture.(Letter to the Editor)
Dennis Behreandt's article "Why Does God Allow Calamities?" in your December 26, 2005 issue was interesting.
But also consider that in Genesis 1:28, God has just created humanity, and He tells them to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth. And He states specifically that they are to "subdue/dominate" creation. This implies that the powers of creation, left to themselves, would not always be orderly, but that under the benevolent control of sinless humans, they could be kept so. (For example, plate tectonics would not have involved catastrophic events.)
When God created the human persons, His decision was that the first couple's use or misuse of all with which they were endowed would affect the entire human family that was to descend from them. God endowed these human creatures with the faculty of free will. This ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Calamities seen in the light of sacred scripture.(Letter to the...