Why did God make an earthquake in Japan?

[1nick]

if there's a god(which i doubt) according to believers he invented plate techtonics,so he's the architect of the desturction.
why would he do such a thing?
boredom?
hates people?
twisted sense of humour?
or is that we live on a volitile globe and good luck to us all

[cutter7]

Maybe it was Allah?

isn't allah arabic for god?

Cutter7, you are right. So are we any closer to answering the Q?

First let me say I would be the wrong person to answer the question as I am no expert on the bible.

I have read the bible however and it does tell us that earthquakes and disasters will happen more frequently as we get closer to the end of time as we know it. So my guess at the answer would be god did not make the earth quake in japan, He allows earthquakes as a sign of the prophesy so we can recognize what has been written and what is yet to come.

Like I said, my answer is my poorly educated guess but I do know the bible predicted these things thousands of years ago before we knew what plate tectonics or global warming were.

[Thinktank]

Maybe God never made the earthquake. Maybe Americans and Canadians bad karma caused
the nuclear meltdown in Japan, though. We thought Haiti got theri earthquake because of their tendency
to dabble in witchcraft. well, our countries do more than dabble in wars. We go all out, giving depleted uranium
that will cause those people cancers for thousands of years. It's really bad karma.

this is from another forum, by an american:
Our water is now radioactive - 181 times stronger than safe level according to tests done at a Berkley lab. Why? Because Japan's reactor used decommissioned nuclear warhead material for fuel, had an earthquake (as often happens), suffered a tsunami (obviously predictable) and blew up.

So California is now bathed in nuclear reactor fallout, at least 500 counts per minute at L.A. according to the EPA a week ago. Every home is contaminated with measurable radiation; our food is made with radioactive tap water; our kids are breathing and eating the stuff. People who worked outside during that period felt ill, tired, and nausiated, while our government repeatedly decreed "it was safe" and the radiation was "miniscule".

http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.p ... 040411.php

[Graham Adder]

The earthquake happened because of the natural progression of the earth.
It happened off the coast of Japan because that was where conditions were just right.
God is a bad bar joke that won't die.

That's the truth
Those are the facts...including the bar joke.

[grammafreddy]

The earthquake happened because of the natural progression of the earth.
It happened off the coast of Japan because that was where conditions were just right.
God is a bad bar joke that won't die.

That's the truth
Those are the facts...including the bar joke.

Are you saying God is a common bar drunk?

[Raven1]

[quote="Thinktank"]I remember when I was going to church, the pastor made it seem like
everything happens for a reason. Like as if, we humans, can figure out
big events and explain them with simple answers.
For example, Haiti got the earthquake, because they do voodoo.
WW2 happened because God wanted some Israelis to go home.
Disasters happen because people have rejected God.
So why did the earthquake happen in Japan? Is it because Japan
has bad karma from killing all those Chinese in WW2? Is the radiation
hitting us, and USA because of our own karma, in Afhgnaistan and Iraq?
You know what? No one knows why things happen. they just happen - that's all..[/quote]


Everything on earth (be they joyous or disastrous) happen for reasons beyond our capacity to understand at the moment they happen.
Rest assured that everything happens for a reason and there are lessons to be learned.

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." ~Einstein

[fluffy]

I've never been comfortable with he idea of God as some all-powerful conscious entity sitting at a big control panel, dishing out rewards and/or punishment as he sees fit. Sh*t happens, that's all. I do feel comfortable with the concept of God as a force that can be accessed to offer direction, but ultimately my decisions are my own, as are the consequences of those decisions.

[cutter7]

I've never been comfortable with he idea of God as some all-powerful conscious entity sitting at a big control panel, dishing out rewards and/or punishment as he sees fit. Sh*t happens, that's all. I do feel comfortable with the concept of God as a force that can be accessed to offer direction, but ultimately my decisions are my own, as are the consequences of those decisions.

Your last sentence is exactly the message I got when I read about eve eating the forbidden fruit. The result of Eve eating the fruit was man has free will. The choice is yours to follow gods rules or your own.

[kelofornia]

[quote="cutter7Your last sentence is exactly the message I got when I read about eve eating the forbidden fruit. The result of Eve eating the fruit was man has free will. The choice is yours to follow gods rules or your own.[/quote]


But every choice has an outcome. Mosre often than not that outcome effects more people than just the person that made the choice.

Ultimately we are all connected in some way, and we should be more conscious of our choices and less willing to come up with excuses after the fact.

[cutter7]

[quote="cutter7Your last sentence is exactly the message I got when I read about eve eating the forbidden fruit. The result of Eve eating the fruit was man has free will. The choice is yours to follow gods rules or your own.

But every choice has an outcome. Mosre often than not that outcome effects more people than just the person that made the choice.

Ultimately we are all connected in some way, and we should be more conscious of our choices and less willing to come up with excuses after the fact.[/quote]

True , so do you believe in gods laws or do you think man is capable of finding his own way?

[fluffy]

.....do you believe in gods laws or do you think man is capable of finding his own way?

Does it have to be one or the other? There are plenty of people who go through life quite successfully without ever adopting a belief in God, just as there are plenty who claim adherence to "God's Laws" while committing horrible atrocities. Yes, there are those who find comfort in the idea of a higher power of some sort, but there are far too many different concepts of God to adequately discuss the right and wrong of it as it applies to humanity as a whole.

[cutter7]

.....do you believe in gods laws or do you think man is capable of finding his own way?

Does it have to be one or the other? There are plenty of people who go through life quite successfully without ever adopting a belief in God, just as there are plenty who claim adherence to "God's Laws" while committing horrible atrocities. Yes, there are those who find comfort in the idea of a higher power of some sort, but there are far too many different concepts of God to adequately discuss the right and wrong of it as it applies to humanity as a whole.

Since it is in a religious thread I only asked kelofornia the question as I did not know which side he was supporting.

[forum]

god didnt create the earthquakes. He doesn't exist. look for the correct answer.

[kelofornia]

[quote="cutter7Your last sentence is exactly the message I got when I read about eve eating the forbidden fruit. The result of Eve eating the fruit was man has free will. The choice is yours to follow gods rules or your own.

But every choice has an outcome. Mosre often than not that outcome effects more people than just the person that made the choice.Ultimately we are all connected in some way, and we should be more conscious of our choices and less willing to come up with excuses after the fact.

True , so do you believe in gods laws or do you think man is capable of finding his own way?[/quote]



Define your version of God's Laws please.

[cutter7]

[quote="cutter7Your last sentence is exactly the message I got when I read about eve eating the forbidden fruit. The result of Eve eating the fruit was man has free will. The choice is yours to follow gods rules or your own.

But every choice has an outcome. Mosre often than not that outcome effects more people than just the person that made the choice.Ultimately we are all connected in some way, and we should be more conscious of our choices and less willing to come up with excuses after the fact.

True , so do you believe in gods laws or do you think man is capable of finding his own way?

Define your version of God's Laws please.[/quote]


Yes I believe in gods laws. The bible tells us not to blindly follow what others teach us but to educate our selves. we will all be judged on our own merits.