On my previous post I linked to Challies' take on Campolo's recent response to the Katrina disaster. Now, I link to Steve Hays' assessment. To add a brief response of my own, I'll critique this paragraph (that really got me scratching my head):

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed. Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. Kushner points out that omnipotence is a Greek philosophical concept, but it is not in his Bible. Instead, the Hebrew Bible contends that God is mighty. That means that God is a greater force in the universe than all the other forces combined.

Now this is truly amazing. Since, as Campolo says, that God is a greater force than all the other forces combined (Which would include Katrina and even Death, no?) shouldn't it be logical that He should be able to stop this from happening? Apparently not for Tony. I suppose this is what happens when you stick "love" at the top of the list of God's attributes (making it His central one) and then say its not God's fault when people die (else He would've stopped it).

Ah well, enough of that. We all know that God is sovereign, and we know that he could've stopped this disaster from happening. But he didn't. Perhaps if we start with the affirmation of God's absolute sovereignity-maybe then we can move onward towards a biblical solution.

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