How do YOU know that God intervening in that tsunami would not have been the cause of anothers' death? Not necessarily from a physical reaction (but possibly)... and not from those who died in the tsunami at some later date who might later kill someone else... but from a human reaction to God having stopped that tsunami? (for whatever reason, use your imagination)
Well, be specific. Are you suggesting that God may have stopped the tsunami and that may have enraged someone so they killed someone else? Or that the tsunami killed someone who was a future mass murderer and the tsunami stopped him? Are you suggesting that your God may not have stopped the death of 200000 to save... some unknown number?
If so, that's a fascinating theory. Please expound upon how many lives were potentially saved to equal out the 200000 that DID die. I am truly intertested to hear how allowing hundreds of thousands to die in a single event prevented even more deaths.
Or even from the fear and panic caused by being confronted with the undeniable existence of God... but yet not knowing God, and so fearing Him and being terrified?
Then you should pray for your god to remain hidden if his presence is so terrifying that it will cause murder, panic, fear and all that goes with it. Truly a monster were he to reveal himself.
You don't know what the results might be to the opposite of what happens.
Neither do you. All we CAN know is that hundreds of thousands died and your all-powerful all-knowing god could or wouldn't stop it.
Lazarus now had to go into hiding because men were trying to kill him, because Christ raised him from the dead. Some people might rather simply wait for the resurrection than face that and worse.
Lazarus didn't have a choice. Your Jesus took away his free will. Some loving guy, huh?
But to have the example of being given life to begin with... of being promised eternal life on top of that... and the many examples of Christ healing the sick, feeding the poor, giving his life, bringing people back from the dead all out of love (and Christ is the reflection of His Father)... well, these things ought to give you pause in your condemnation.
No more so than STORIES of Zeus, Mithra, Zoroaster, Shiva, Ba'al or any other god of that age. You would condemn those as false, please explain why special pleading should work for you and not them? How is your god any different?
Because your assumption and condemnation just doesn't make any sense in light of these truths.
Sorry, unless you can explain why your stories are different that other god's stories, they're stories. You have all the work to do to explain why they are different than all the others.
A monstrous god (as Cofty describes what he does not know) does not give life or attempt to help, guide, serve, heal, save, etc, man, including those who so often reject Him.
You just said there may be a reason your god did not attempt to help save or guide the tsunami victims and you can't explain why. Sounds like you are describing the monster you claim Cofty does not know. Why, then, do you worship him?
