How do we deal with devastation, sweeps of destruction caused by nature? Where is God? Didn’t he create this? Now all we see is a mess. On the 11th March 2011 an earthquake hit Japan, a Tsunami, swept inland, gobbling up buildings, cars, homes and people as if they was just another grain of sand on the beach. How do I as a Christian respond to such terror, to such pain? I have to go back to the beginning, creation. God spoke, light. God spoke, seperate, land and water. God spoke, Earth green up. God spoke, Fish swarm, birds fly. God spoke, Earth generate life. God spoke, let’s make human. God spoke and into being came sky, land, light, creature of every kind, food, vegetation and human beings.What was there before? The message bible puts it ‘a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness.’ Nothing, emptiness. How about Chaos? God spoke into chaos, and out of it came order. God spoke and the chaos ended and life begun. Thousands of years later a guy who seemed like no ...
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