Tsunami atheism

Disaster and mass loss of life disprove only the manmade god | Gene Edward Veith

Some see the dead bodies on television and say, "If there is a God, surely He would have stopped this. It happened, so there must not be one." But the tsunami does not disprove the existence of the God of the Bible. It only disproves the existence of the kind of god we make up for ourselves.

"The God I worship would never punish anyone," we hear. "The God I believe in doesn't care who we have sex with or how we worship or how we live our lives. My God is not so judgmental." Well, that God does not exist. The image of a nice deity who looks benignly down from heaven, wanting us all just to have a good time, is a wish-fulfillment, a fiction we might make up so we feel better.

The God revealed by the Bible is not that way at all. He is a consuming fire. His ways are not our ways. He can be full of wrath, wiping out nations and devastating His own people. At one time, He went so far as to tsunami the whole world, sparing only a single family in an ark (and in His mercy said He would never flood the whole world again).