Armageddon Online

Here's a fun site. While the author is trying to be a bit of an alarmist (which is like being a little bit pregnant), the basic facts are correct. A mega-tsunami, possibly kicked of by a Canary Island eruption, an asteroid impact, or a super volcano (like all of Yellowstone Park) would actually be devastating.

Although there are different weights we can put on them. The tsunami would be coastal only, and while millions would die, would it compare to the millions killed by Hitler and Stalin, or the Black Plague? I think that no tsunami, no matter how big, could be considered the biblical Armageddon. Why? Most people on earth will be left alive, and it will only effect coastal regions. It will be horrible, but far too local. An asteroid impact or mega volcano could be much more widespread.

Why would the loving God of the New Testament do such a thing? This is an old question, and unquestionably one of the most difficult. I think that a Christian's belief in eternal life is the answer though; if we really have eternal life, than God's view of an individual's death might be like our view of pulling a splinter - painful but necessary, and inconsequential in the long run.