Did God cause the earthquake in Haiti?

Of course He did. How could anyone read the Bible and think anything else. God is not a cosmic "top-spinner"!!

 

No. With all that ranting and stomping in Wisconsin, those people caused a major earth quake on the opposite side of the globe.​

 

If the Westminster and Baptist Confession of Faith does not suit you then you are beyond help, Skandelon.

Confessions exist to tell the world what those doing the confessing believe certain doctrines mean and why they adhere to them.

If that is not good enough for you then you cannot be helped.

I have also posted the Baptist Confession of Faith on decrees:

Now these are the best words ever spoken or written by mortal man on the subject of decrees. This is the most THOROUGH description of what the decrees of God are that any human being can give you this side of eternity.

 

I replied to this here.

 

Isaiah 45:7 I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things.

Daniel 4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, but )He does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth; and no one can ward off His hand or say to Him, 'What have You done?'

Well, I guess we're done here.

 

Bravo Brother Tom.... Me thinks I hearith the word "Sovereignty" being bandied about. Forsooth or some equally strange expression. Equal to sovereignty in the eyes of ....well, you knows who'd Id be speakin bout.

 

I would add, "Matt. 5:43 Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy: 44 but I say unto you, love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you; 45 that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.

Maybe someone should start a thread asking, "Did God cause the sun to rise on us this morning?"

 

I can't believe I'm on the Calvinists side!

Yes, God did cause the sun to rise this morning.

Colossians 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.


Christ holds the universe together. The sun would not rise if He didn't.

 

Amy, I am pretty certain that Skandelon concedes that point, rather I think he is simply being a bit facetious. Oh, and BTW, I know you know this, the sun does not rise, we only "percieve" it as such by our rotation on the the axis. But you ( and even my beloved reformed brethren) are correct, God is the glue of the universe, the micro, and the macro.

 

Yes I knew that.

 

sorry Amy, just the teacher in me, always looking for the opportunity to give a science or math lesson.

 

That's ok. I need some math lessons. I never was very good at it. :laugh:

 

Math is our friend. Always remember,,,,,A happy fraction is a reduced fraction.

 

John Calvin, Sermons sur l'Epitre aux Corinthiens:

=Those who say that the earth moves round, rather than the sun, are demon-possessed!

:laugh:

 

Assuming that is french, which thankfully I do not speak. But just another point that I would disagree with Mr. Calvin, and yet another reason to keep my "no name" theology.

 

Four and a half centuries and much of the man's work has yet to be translated into English.

His followers may not know all his teachings yet, but evidently quite a few have the namecalling thing down pat.

 

Don't worry, that belief is not uniquely Calvinistic.