The Baptist Press Weighs in on God's Hand in the Tsunami

God & The Tsunami

The challenge to the Christian faith is clear, even as it is often crudely put forth by secular critics. If God is both omnipotent and benevolent, how can disasters like this (tsunami) happen?

Alright! Finally...we're about to get down to it!

A faithful Christian response will affirm the true character and power of God -- His omnipotence and His benevolence. God is in control of the entire universe, and there is not even a single atom outside His sovereignty. And God's goodness and love are beyond question. The Bible leaves no room for equivocation on either truth.

Alas, a forthright answer was not to be. It would seem that God's simultaneous, mutually exclusive and ever-competing characteristics of omnipotence and omnibenevolence remain at odds. (In other words, God still doesn't exist). Just shut up and keep going to church. Quit asking questions, ye of little faith.