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Why Does God Allow Disasters Like Harvey?

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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Louisiana began evacuations for Hurricane Harvey this week, on the twelfth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane has dumped a record 51 inches of rain as of Wednesday morning, the equivalent of four typical hurricanes.

Why has God allowed such devastation? Here are the logical options as I see them.

One: We didn't pray enough.

Scripture teaches that "you do not have, because you do not ask" (James 4:2). Did this storm strike because we did not pray enough for God to stop it?

Read more at: http://www.christianpost.com/news/why-god-allowed-hurricane-harvey-4-wrong-answers-197631/

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