Why God allows natural disasters to happen.

This is a question I am sure many Christians ask themselves and I know it's the argument of choice for skeptics. "If God is love then why are there natural disasters, why do people die before their time?" It is a question that I have kept away from for obvious reasons. I do not want to get myself in a place where I am open to satanic attack in the form of doubting God.

Last night I was watching TBN and this topic came up. They had a religious professor and a Rabbi on the show and the host of the show. I must confess that I do not remember their names; however that is not important, the conversation was.

Firstly all three agreed that God created a perfect world and that by Adam’s sin things went haywire. This makes sense to me given the wrath we see of God in the Old Testament. Secondly if God now starts stopping tsunamis and the like then he would be interfering with the natural laws of physics. Who knows what chaos would then prevail?

Although communicated in a different way both the Rabbi and the professor agreed that God’s evidence of love is how we react to these situations. Do we try to help people in situations? Do we show them love and compassion? That, by their reckoning is where we see evidence of God’s love. The Rabbi also said we should be vigilant as to how we can prevent tragedies; we need to take responsibility for this planet that God created for us.

This all made sense to me and has given me a little more peace of mind. We also know from the bible that should never question God.