Let’s recap. Our story began in the smoking ruins of Haiti in January 2010, with one weak cry winding out from deep within the concrete rubble of a collapsed hospital. The cry was from six week old Landina, severely wounded in the devastating quake that killed and maimed hundreds of thousands. The horror naturally prompts the question […]
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A second blushing attempt to rationalize babies being punished
Our second attempt appeals to the concept of imputation. To impute means to assign or ascribe a value to something. In classic reformed theology there are three senses of imputation. The one most Christians like to talk about is that of God imputing our sin to the sinless Christ. Somehow God assigns or ascribes the culpability […]
A first blushing attempt to rationalize babies being punished
Pete rushed (or at least ambled) in where most Christian theists would fear to tread by suggesting a possible explanation for six week old baby Landina being “punished” by being buried in an earthquake: I have tried thinking critically/honestly about on what grounds babies deserve to be divinely punished by God. What if all humans were […]
Does God punish people through natural disasters?
By some counts more than three hundred thousand people were killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake while an additional three hundred thousand were injured and one million rendered homeless. The scale of human suffering is truly unimaginable. And then, even as people were still struggling for their next breath while buried in ten tonnes of concrete, along came […]
