Sentences with phrase «god sends storms»

Even if we can defend from Scripture the idea that God does sometimes send storms, it is much more difficult to defend the idea that God sends storms and natural disasters to punish wicked sinners.

I can not accept the idea that God sends all storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, famines, earthquakes, tsunamis, and a host of other disasters which kill thousands of people, causes terrible destruction, and leads to massive sickness and sadness.

Whether or not a person believes that God sends storms, one thing that all agree on is that God can use storms to accomplish His will.

God sends a storm to get Jonah to admit his guilt, but Jonah falls asleep in the belly of the boat.

Does God send storms into our lives to punish us?

In Jonah 1:4, God sends a storm upon Jonah and the ship that carries him to Tarshish.

Does God send storms, famines, and earthquakes?

- Does God send storms into our lives to punish us?

Not exact matches

God's involvement is not to send storms, but to protect us from them.

The original question still stands from iamdeadlyserious, is god tired of showing his wrath in an overt fashion so he has to use his own laws to «send a storm»?

One of the curious contrasts between Jonah and the sailors in Jonah 1 is that Jonah, a prophet of God, a member of the chosen people, refuses to pray to God when his life is threatened, but the pagan, idol - worshiping sailors not only pray to their own deities, but also pray to Yahweh when they learn that it is He who sent the storm.

I wondered then, as many others have, «Did God really send this storm?

From a logical viewpoint your explanation has a pickle: God allows storms but doesn't send them seems to split hairs on direct or indirect responsibility.

Also 2 Peter 3:9 seems clear that God wants no one to perish so sending storms as punishment that kills people makes no sense, it makes no sense of the cross and the gospel

God can send a whirlwind, But every single storm that comes is not sent by God like some heavenly destroyer, Hurricanes hit the coast of the United states, if you live on the Coast your gonna eventually get hit by a Hurricane.

God doesn't «send» storms!!

While we speak of the eye of the hurricane, they were ever mindful of the eye of a God who was watching over them, and sending storms their way as punishment for their collective sins.

We could talk about the Ten Plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, the conquest of Canaan, Gideon's victory over the Midianites, the storm that God sent upon the wayward Jonah, and so on.

The Bible says that God sent various storms in Biblical times, and I am not comfortable saying that the Bible is wrong.

God sent fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah, the Ten Plagues upon Egypt, and a storm on the ship carrying Jonah.

It is easy to see how these Christians come to such a conclusion, especially when the Bible has several examples of storms and famines sent by God to judge people for their disobedience.

Yes, God can send storms, but He usually doesn't, and there is no way to be certain today which storms are divinely sent and which ones are just a result of natural weather patterns.

I think destructive storms do come as a consequence of not obeying God, but I don't think that God Himself actively sends them.

Until then, it seems best to conclude that in some way or another, God does send storms.

This options states that while God can send storms, He usually doesn't — not in our day or in biblical times.

Well, God doesn't take disobedience too well, so He sent a storm that about sunk the ship.

God does not orchestrate suffering, cause death, send storms, destroy lives, or bring about death.

God sends a huge storm, which threatens your life and the lives of everyone on board.

Whatever the reason, God doesn't take disobedience too well, so He sent a storm that about sunk the ship.

They ask every question they can think of in order to hopefully determine why Jonah's God is sending this storm.

It is, of course, our story: the threat, real or simply paranoid; the flight in terror through the wilderness of despair; the wonder of sustenance in the desert; the darkness, the stillness, the strangely comforting loneliness of the cave in which we spend a night or a week or however long it takes for the noise and fury of our hell to subside; the perception of the gift, now, of gentle silence; the miracle, then, of the discovery anew of the «isness» of the Word, but the immediate, bitter protest against it because it will not let us stay in this place of haven from storm, this realm of the silence of gentleness, because it sends us back again, and because it rebukes the pride of our paranoia, our monumental sense of absolutely unique commitment and persecution; and finally our return, to call an Elisha on the way and to resume the work of ministry to Word of God and word of earth, renewed by the whole kaleidoscopic experience of the trip to the Cave.

I got half - way through the book of Jonah, when I asked myself the dangerous question, «Did God really send the storm which nearly killed everybody on board the ship?»

God is the creator of nature, and all powerful, so if he wanted to punish man why send such puny storms when he can create ones that could wipe entire continents bare of all living things?

But God proves himself omnipresent: he sends a deadly storm; Jonah, spotted by lot as the guilty man, is thrown overboard; a great fish swallows him and three days later disgorges him.