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Are natural disasters judgments from God?
All natural disasters are the result of sin
but no one natural disaster is the result of
any one person or one group of people's sin.
Let me explain.
The Bible begins by pointing out that we have the responsibility
to steward, take care of creation
and when we sin
our moral choices have an effect on creation.
In face in Genesis chapter 3 after Adam and Eve sin
God says "cursed is the ground because of you"
and he says this ground will now produce thorns and thistles
creation itself starts to change, nature shifts
because of Adam and Eve's sin
Now they didn't sin in any way that seemed to directly affect creation
they didn't litter. That wasn't their sin, they weren't polluting
but it seems as though our moral choices
actually spiritually pollute the environment.
Like it or not, the Bible teaches a narrative
that begins with a greater spiritual connection
between human morality and all of creation
than we may have realized
and so when we sin, whether we sin directly against the environment
or against one another, we are spiritually polluting the world in which we live
and all of creation groans and moans
and begins to misfire and behave in ways it was never intended to.
We need to own that rather than point a finger at God.
Our morality is the cause.
Jesus reinforces this is Luke chapter 13
when he's talking about sin and effects
and he points out that no one group of people
are the cause of their own disaster
when something goes wrong in someones life
we don't blame them for it but we all take responsibility.
It's not, do I blame them or do I blame God?
How about we actually accept responsibility ourselves collectively.
Jesus says in Luke 13 when he is told about a group of people
who were actually murdered by roman soldiers
in the middle of worshipping.
When they were offering their own animal sacrifices
He says in response to the people who are telling him about this
He says, "Do you think that these Galileans
were worse sinners than all of the other Galileans
because they suffered this way?
I tell you no."
Something terrible happens to a group of people
it's not because they are any worse
because their specific sin brought it upon themselves.
Now he does use this as a teaching moment. He goes on to say
"But unless you all repent, you too will all perish"
In other words, there is a greater judgement ahead that we will all face.
But this group, they were no worse than the rest of you.
Also he goes on to talk about a natural disaster
that was a human inspired evil, but a natural disaster
a tower falling down upon some people
He says "Do those 18 who died
when the tower in Siloam fell on them
do you think that they were more guilty
than all the others living in Jerusalem?
I tell you no.
But unless you repent, you too will all perish."
Jesus says, we cannot turn to the doctrine of karma
to try and explain the suffering of the world.
Karma is a theology that double victimizes the victim.
Once something has happened to someone that is terrible and hurtful
karma says, that's okay, they deserve it.
They've done something.
We might not know what it is, they might not know what it is
but they've done something to deserve this disaster.
That's karma and Jesus says no.
Grace always supersedes karma.
Now it raises the question, is it possible that in some scenarios
God might bring specific disaster
or difficulty into an individual's life
because of some sin that they have committed.
But that's another question.
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