This was in response to (among other things) Congressional Representative (and Presidential candidate) Michelle Bachmann's statement last month that:
I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?'
Last Sunday, on Meet the Press, Bob Schieffer asked, "[D]o you believe that God uses the weather to send people messages?"
Bachmann replied:
I believe in God. I'm not ashamed to say that I believe in God. I'm a woman of faith, and a woman of prayer. But the comments that I made right then was a metaphor, that was very simply what I was doing.
But does Michelle Bachmann believe in Jesus, and what would Jesus say?
In explaining why we should love our enemies, Jesus said:
He [God] causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
(Matt. 5:45)
If you believe in the words of the Bible and the words of Jesus, then no, God does not use the weather to send people messages.
