How Can an All-Good, All-Powerful God Permit Haiti?
We live in a broken world. When Adam & Eve sinned, sin entered the world, as did diseases, pain, death and sickness. We were created with free will and God wanted them to choose to obey Him or to disobey (to choose man’s way or God’s way). They were tempted by Satan and disobeyed. As a result they had knowledge of good and evil and we were all born with a sin nature and free will to choose or reject God. The world has become more and more corrupt ever since Adam & Eve.
Remember that there is so much evil in this world, people cause harm to others and the world is corrupt with people choosing their own way and not God’s way. God does not stand in the way of a person’s free will. He didn’t create us like robots.
The world will be judged for their sins, those that will not repent and turn to God. Prophecy states that towards the end times there will be more and more disasters, wars and that people will be lovers of themselves, etc..many more things also. They are described as "birth pangs".
Here is a useful link to answer your question: http://www.gotquestions.org/natural-disasters.html
God Bless 🙂
Bain argues that the implications of this syllogism lead us to conclude that either • God is good but not all-powerful • God is evil and all-powerful • There is no God This syllogism is misleading. It assumes that God has not done anything in the past and that he will do nothing in the future to address the problem of evil and suffering. It is an incomplete framing of the issue. We could flip it around and ask: “How can an All-Good, All-Powerful God permit good to bad people?” I’ll leave you to ponder that. To the point, although the reasons for an all-good, all-powerful infinite God in human suffering may not be clear to finite minds, it does not follow that there are no good reasons. Just because our minds can’t plumb the depths of God and the universe to find complete answers to evil and suffering doesn’t mean there aren’t any. To make this claim is to put inordinate faith in finite intellect, which is itself a leap of faith.
