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Creation Untamed: The Bible, God, and Natural Disasters is unavailable, but you can change that!

Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes have plagued the earth throughout history. What is God’s role in natural disasters and the human suffering they cause? This is a vexing perennial question. When destruction occurs due to “forces of nature,” is the hand of God visiting judgment on a particularly sinful people, or has God simply left humanity to fend for itself? The Bible often speaks...

creative design of a naturally developing world. Such a state of affairs is a reality apart from human sin, not least if one considers the suffering of animals. The book of Job will help us to develop such an understanding. God appears to Job in the “whirlwind” (Job 38:1); that word could be translated with terms such as “tempest” or “storm” (for use of the Hebrew word, see Pss. 107:25; 148:8; Isa. 29:6; Jon. 1:4, 12). The “whirlwind” is not some gentle breeze: it is truly a prime example of nature’s
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