Now, this is getting even weirder. Christians will go to any length to convince themselves of their specialness.


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DO CHRISTIANS HAVE CONTROL OVER NATURE (NATURAL EVENTS)? (Part 1 of 3)
Can We Exercise it? And Under What Circumstances?

God created man for the purpose of ruling, subduing, controlling, and having dominion over every other thing on the earth, in the air and in the seas, which He had earlier created (Gen 1:1-25).

His plan was to have man to be His representative on the earth.

Gen 1:25-26 reads: "And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind;, And God said, Let us make man in our image; after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the seas and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth".

So, He did as he purposed, male and female He created them (Gen. 1:27).

At the completion of the project, God blessed man saying: "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:, " (Gen 1:28).

King David testified to this responsibility, which God placed on man in His song in Psalms 8:3-6: "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visited him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and has crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet"

Can we exercise that control?

From all these available facts, obedient children of God can.

Are there any conditions to be met before we can exercise such controls and under what circumstances?

The conditions must have genuine intentions to:

Glorify God's name.
Promote further, God's Kingdom on earth.
Point the heathens to the true God.
Establish and assure the believer
We can also exercise it when lives are in danger.
Come with me for confirmation in the Scripture at few instances among numerous records in the Bible of man, exercising control over nature by the power of God with the accompanying results of how those miracles met the conditions as stated above.

(i) In Exodus 14, we read how God when the death squad of Pharaoh was fast approaching, created a path for the Israelites in the Red sea and they walked through on dry ground, while the waters closed in on Pharaoh and his army and they perished.

At another time, He dried up the waters of the Jordan for them in order for them to pass (Joshua 5:1).

Rehab the harlot in later years relayed to the spies whom Joshua sent to Jericho, the effects of these miracles on the people of the neighboring countries. Hear her:

"I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorities, that were on the other side of Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain anymore courage in any man, because of you; for the LORD your God, He is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath" (Joshua 2:9-11).

What a testimony from a harlot!!-and from a person of a rival tribe.

(ii) There was another day when at the instant prayer of only one man, Joshua, the sun stopped in the heavens and stayed there for almost 24 hours. He commanded the sun to stand still upon Gibeon and the moon in the valley of Ajalon until the war was over. The story is in Joshua 10.

(iii). Ahab was an evil King in Israel. He did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the Kings of Israel that were before him (1Kings 16:33). He and his father's house had forsaken the commandments of God and followed Baalim (1Kings 18:18).

In order to provoke King Ahab to repentance and path of sanity (1King 18:18-46), Elijah the prophet from Tishbe said unto Ahab:

"As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word"(1Kings 17:1).

And so it was, resulting in great famine in the land for 31/2 years (1Kings 18:1-2; James 5:17-18).

Before Elijah ended the drought, he challenged the whole Israel, who they would follow, whether God or Baal (1Kings 18:21). He also challenged the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the groves (Asherah) (vs. 19) to command fire in the name of their god to consume their offering. He would do the same in the name of his God and "the God that answers by fire, let Him be God" (1Kings 18:24).

This is a long three part article. You can read the rest here if you are interestied, http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/aweda/041410.html

Can we exercise that control?

From all these available facts, obedient children of God can.

Are there any conditions to be met before we can exercise such controls and under what circumstances?

The conditions must have genuine intentions to:

Glorify God's name.
Promote further, God's Kingdom on earth.
Point the heathens to the true God.
Establish and assure the believer
We can also exercise it when lives are in danger.
Come with me for confirmation in the Scripture at few instances among numerous records in the Bible of man, exercising control over nature by the power of God with the accompanying results of how those miracles met the conditions as stated above.

So the Haiti earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people was created by christians to glorify their god? Are these folks loosing it or what?

so you dont know.well as for me.i av authority over all what GOD created including the weather and you.i sti av some testimony on that.you cant really understand until you av a divine encounter wit dis GOD

so you dont know.well as for me.i av authority over all what GOD created including the weather and you.i sti av some testimony on that.you cant really understand until you av a divine encounter wit dis GOD

so you dont know.well as for me.i av authority over all what GOD created including the weather and you.i sti av some testimony on that.you cant really understand until you av a divine encounter wit dis GOD

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so you dont know.well as for me.i av authority over all what GOD created including the weather and you.i sti av some testimony on that.you cant really understand until you av a divine encounter wit dis GOD

You are not the only one, all humans have this "dominion". Isn't this what the mystics have been saying for a long long time? That we humans create our reality as we go?

Christianity is getting mystical.

You are not the only one, all humans have this "dominion". Isn't this what the mystics have been saying for a long long time? That we humans create our reality as we go?

Christianity is getting mystical more delusional.

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