I have never met UKIP Councillor David Silvester, but would suspect that his views on homosexuality are very much in line with my own. I would certainly agree with him that David Cameron, in legalising gay marriage has behaved "arrogantly against the Gospel."
But what about his comments that "It is {David Cameron's} fault that large swathes of the nation have been afflicted by storms and floods"? He is not the first Christian to claim that natural disasters were God's judgment on a wicked nation. I recall a minister in a town in Sussex saying something similar when the town in question suffered bad flooding in 2000.
There are definite instances in the Old Testament of God making it clear that apparent "natural" disasters were actually His divine judgement on wicked Israel. These verses from Amos 4:7-9 are one of the best examples:-
And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
However, I think that great caution has to be exercised in making claims that similar freak weather conditions today are God's judgements. Particularly in the case of gay marriage, The law which legalised it went onto the statute books in July last year, so therefore in the middle of the best summer we have enjoyed for seven years. Look a all the awful things which the Blair government inflicted upon us, yet the weather in the years following the 1997 General Election was the usual British mixture of good, bad and indifferent.
Will God judge David Cameron for this stupid piece of legislation? Perhaps He will, but it will most likely be a more straightforward affair - his removal as Prime Minister by his own backbenchers or a thrashing in the polls in the 2015 General Election.
But what about his comments that "It is {David Cameron's} fault that large swathes of the nation have been afflicted by storms and floods"? He is not the first Christian to claim that natural disasters were God's judgment on a wicked nation. I recall a minister in a town in Sussex saying something similar when the town in question suffered bad flooding in 2000.
There are definite instances in the Old Testament of God making it clear that apparent "natural" disasters were actually His divine judgement on wicked Israel. These verses from Amos 4:7-9 are one of the best examples:-
And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
However, I think that great caution has to be exercised in making claims that similar freak weather conditions today are God's judgements. Particularly in the case of gay marriage, The law which legalised it went onto the statute books in July last year, so therefore in the middle of the best summer we have enjoyed for seven years. Look a all the awful things which the Blair government inflicted upon us, yet the weather in the years following the 1997 General Election was the usual British mixture of good, bad and indifferent.
Will God judge David Cameron for this stupid piece of legislation? Perhaps He will, but it will most likely be a more straightforward affair - his removal as Prime Minister by his own backbenchers or a thrashing in the polls in the 2015 General Election.