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Why Do We Blame God for Catastrophes? |
Insurance companies speak of damage done by an earthquake or storm as an "act of God." Sometimes, when a child's life ends prematurely, people will even say that God took the child to be with Him.
When an accidental death occurs or a weather disaster or earthquake demolishes buildings and injures or kills people, is it fair to classify such troubling events as deliberate acts of God?
Certainly not! In reality most of these tragedies fall under one of two categories-time and chance and human error.
Such tragedies usually result from people being at the wrong place or in the wrong situation at the wrong time. Their cause is similar to wise King Solomon's explanation of why being faster, wiser or stronger may not always determine one's success. "I returned and saw under the sun that-The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all" (Ecclesiastes 9:11). The same principle normally applies to most victims of hard-to-explain disasters-they simply happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
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