Natural Disasters and Human Responsibility: How Should We Understand Them?
The illustration was made with Chat GPT Natural disasters are currently striking several regions of our country. Mismanagement of land and territory has become one of the contributing factors, in addition to extreme weather conditions that have not occurred in the last few decades. Complaints and calls demanding that incompetent power holders take responsibility and act immediately have filled social media throughout this past week. As citizens, members of society, fellow human beings living in a nation founded on Pancasila, and as Christians who hold firmly to the truth of God’s Word written in the Bible, a question inevitably arises—one that must be answered clearly: “How should we understand all these events from the perspective of the Christian faith, which acknowledges both the sovereignty of God and the responsibility of humanity?” In a podcast episode, Bagus Muljadi explains that Western thought often maps the ages of human history into three major eras: premodern, modern, and...