A Thought on Atheists and Typhoon Yolanda
I remembered some atheist talks especially some had escalated after the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda that had hit the Philippines and left many homeless. Just made me think that some atheist would say something like, "Well the Christians just do nothing but pray. They pray and they pray, that's pathetic. They are a group of idiots who are under-evolved and still rely on their God. If there is a God, why doesn't He stop the storm?" then later, we hear them rant all the want that God is cruel and merciless while they stick to the Dawkins' rule of pitiless indifference.
However what these atheists don't realize is that Christianity is not just pray and wait for God to move, they move because God is moving and guiding them, they do good works because good works is the result of salvation through Jesus Christ. In fact, praise God that Pastor Kent Jesalva was able to move 500 boxes of relief goods from Cebu island to affected places because of everybody's prayers and hard work by the grace of God. Faith is not blind and passive, faith is seeing and active. Faith restores the sight of the spiritually blind and causes good works to come forth. Remember James 2:18-23? True faith begets works! If you ask me, I have seen people like Pastor Ray Comfort and his ministry do more authentic charitable works than the Irrational Response Squad.
However what these atheists don't realize is that Christianity is not just pray and wait for God to move, they move because God is moving and guiding them, they do good works because good works is the result of salvation through Jesus Christ. In fact, praise God that Pastor Kent Jesalva was able to move 500 boxes of relief goods from Cebu island to affected places because of everybody's prayers and hard work by the grace of God. Faith is not blind and passive, faith is seeing and active. Faith restores the sight of the spiritually blind and causes good works to come forth. Remember James 2:18-23? True faith begets works! If you ask me, I have seen people like Pastor Ray Comfort and his ministry do more authentic charitable works than the Irrational Response Squad.
I am pretty amazed at how many times the atheist says, "Well this is the work of man. The relief goods are the work of man, God wasn't there." But I would like to share this truth. Many times, it becomes impossible for the relief goods to even reach the area because of a devastation. After Tacloban was hit, I was even thinking man it would be hard. Bohol, Tacloban, Bantayan islands, Ormoc... those places were devastated and I wonder where a boat was going to even arrive there? Fortunately God in His mercy had allowed such a miracle to happen. In fact, the airports were soon operational, boats were available in other places. In fact, God in His mercy allows provision to happen in this world gone mad. I would believe that the prayers of true Christians not a series of dead prayers of memorized deadbeat chanting had caused this. In fact, God had even spared some of the heathen because it wasn't their time yet. As said, God is still in control and He knows what He is doing. Also I thought that God uses men and women under His authority to go forward to carry out the work that needs to be done.