Subject: God Punished New Orleans with Katrina |
Bible Note: Hi Val, The primary challenge I have with this line of thinking is that God is dealing with individuals now, not nations! The Great White throne judgment is yet future! John 5:23 explicitly states, God has commited all judgment to the Son, "For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son" (NASB. Certainly God, in His permissive will allows such to happen. It's the result of the fall! But, I don't see this as His direct Divine judgment! Additionally, we can also develop a "worse works" mentality. If New Orleans was "punished", who's more deservant, and for what? Case in point, Stalin in Communist Russia and Mao in China systematically murdered 10's of millions of their own people. Isn't that much more deserving of punishment by God? Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |