Does God shoulder the blame for natural disasters? Does He use them to punish evil?
Bring transformation? God makes an unapologetic statement about himself: “I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things” (Isaiah 45:7). That Natural disasters are part of the curse placed by God upon the earth, due to the moral evil of Earth’s stewards is not explicitly stated, but can be deduced from various Scriptures. Human evil is the cause of human death (Romans 6:23). What makes natural disasters most disastrous is that they take human life. But they could not have done that until sin came into the world. God doesn’t just set natural forces in motion; he governs them. God directly orchestrated the greatest natural disaster in human history, the flood. (Genesis 6-8) Many argue that nature is morally blind, therefore it cannot be said that God is involved in winds and storms and floods. But Jesus said: “He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” (Matthew 5
