However, atheists might argue that God may have given us freedom, and therefore must punish us when we chose the wrong path, but why should innocent people, especially children, suffer? If God …show more content…
The more you suffer, the better the reward after life. Everyone who has done wrong in God’s eyes will suffer at some point, God is just, “And having been set free of sin, have become slave of righteousness”, Romans 8:1-4. The results of natural disasters are usually catastrophic, but this is not God’s doing. We, as humans with the gift to make our own choices, drain wetlands, build huge buildings over fault zones we know are dangerous, and have emitted 36,138,285 million kilotons of CO2 (by 2014) as a planet, causing climate change. God placed humans on the earth with the instructions to take care of it, to use it wisely and carefully and to take care of the environment. Unfortunately, we have allowed greed and selfishness to be the guiding force too often. "For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." - Colossians 1:16-17, why would God destroy something that was created by him and for