We're Going Biblical on Japan

Thousands of years ago, God used a little thing called "The Flood" to wipe out almost all people on the entire face of the earth, and maybe the situation with the earthquake and tsunamis in Japan are not so different.

"What is going on in Japan scares me," said Kristina Newkirk. "While it doesn't really affect me personally, this is just like the biblical catastrophes of the Old Testament, and that should affect all of us emotionally. A lot of people died! And that incident in Japan could have happened to us.We are all sinners"

According to Newkirk, historically, massive incidents like this with a large death toll have been related to the wrath of God. Large amounts of people die, and some people's minds, especially those of Christian background jump to punishment, or a display of god's power. They think of disasters like The Flood where God destroyed a large quantity of people because they were corrupt. If this were the case, America has a lot to be afraid of. While this does not affect the majority of people directly, it should affect all people emotionally, and instill in them a healthy fear of God.

Katie Thede said that the way she was affected by Japan was that her heart was broken for those people. It made her feel helpless, as not only the calamities themselves were out of her control, but also she cannot really do much to fix them either. She struggled with the idea that she wanted to help, but did not know how she could really do much.

Chris Chung felt the same way. Despite his feelings of helplessness though, Chris wanted to go around Biola and collect donations and give it to an organization that is dedicated to helping rescue and rebuild Japan. He also thought it would be good to raise awareness about what is going on so that more people would do the same.

Lying on the Pacific Coast, California is lucky that a similar incident has not occurred here. That could have easily been us. The things we can do with the incident in Japan in mind are donate, raise awareness, and pray--pray that God helps them, and that God's will be done in this current crisis.