Hi Jim.
I really like this statement:
<<EVERYTHING NATURAL IS A RECURING CYCLONE>>
I agree, chaos is nature's middle name.
But you are incorrect about the history of nature's seeming intent to ravage this planet getting worse than ever. There are more people affected, because there are more people and many of them have chosen to live in areas that are routinely affected by nature, such as the shore lines of seas and rivers. California, in particular, has worked against nature's cycle and has literally provided fodder for disastrous fires through nonsensical regulations. Rerouting the Mississippi River and building in previously natural flood zones provided for much disaster in those areas.
So...humans have not helped in causing more disaster and harm.
The history of this planet is rife with mass extinctions from naturally occurring events; there just weren't any humans to witness it. After humans started recording natural disasters, there were still events every weather cycle that ended in mass destruction and death...and not all humans were recording these events so that we have a written history of all disasters.
We live on a violent planet that does not concern itself with us or our beliefs or our preferences, but seems set out to kill nearly every life form that thinks and reasons and sets its wishes above the planet's natural cycles. Even those creatures who accept planetary cycles are set upon by the rest of nature and endure terrible hardships from their attack. Yes, life occurs here in the "Goldilocks zone" optimal for it to form, but Nature is not gentle to whatever life there arises.
Floods, Ice Ages, volcanic activity, meteor strikes, drought, plague and parasites, hurricanes and tornadoes, earthquakes and tsunamis, wildfires and sandstorms, famine from blight or insects....these have been going on from the beginning and long, long before humans entered the equation.
During our lifetime, I don't think we have had entire human populations wiped out from any of these or whole cities or tribal nations obliterated. Yet, there may have been small human tribes that died out in the past hundred years from the attacks of several events. Humans, as a species, have survived extinction, which cannot be said of 95% or so of all species that has ever lived.
The Great Flood is a history of many, if not all, human civilizations, so it probably occurred, but as not all human civilizations were wiped out, it probably did not cover all of the Earth and left intact enough humans to place the event in their tribal histories. Such cataclysmic events could occur again and modern humans will be the ones to adapt and survive the natural cycles of our violent planet.
Now, the above is just about nature and our planet's history. I have written nothing about human ethical dilemmas.
Jim, you believe what you believe, and it is your choice to believe that way.
I will take objection to your notion that those who do not believe exactly as you do are living with "THE ALL IS OKAY DOCTRINE, NOTHING IS SIN" and are unworthy because they are apostates. Many have their own devout religious beliefs and strive to live within moral parameters. As well, do many who are atheists strive to live thus.
Human beings will never be without "spot or wrinkle" and for a Creator to deliberately place us here on this violent and unforgiving planet among nature's war-like behavior in all its forms, and expect anything perfect in the end, is cruel. I have been repeatedly told that God is not cruel.
I do believe that nearly all human beings from our very beginnings as sentient life forms, strive to be the best they can be for the times and places in which they dwell. Some are trapped by geography and history, and struggle more than others...but even in their lives are moral parameters that most choose not to cross. It is beneficial to human societies to live within these moral parameters, especially when it comes to rearing the next generation.
Not all human societies, civilizations or communities are failing that responsibility, although the media may make it appear to be that way nowadays. In fact, I would say it is only a vocal and well-videoed few that are failing in that duty, but they are heavily covered by media in all its forms.
I have nothing against people being prepared, but each in our own manner. You believe the only preparation is of the soul and you are correct then to promote that. As for proof of a near End Times based upon natural events and human activity, I don't see what you are providing to be any proof. It has always been thus for the planet and the humans interacting upon it.
-Jeanne
"The Ox is slow, but the Earth is patient."
