Good point! I should have said; why did he allow the fires to start in the first place.You have shifted your language! Earlier - to continue your metaphor -you wrote of God allowing fires and now you've moved to him starting fires. Let's stick with your original question and not introduce a new presupposition via a modified question. (At another time maybe we'll be up for discussing if someone allowing an event is the same as a person causing the event.)
Why does he need to show his greatness? If you've got it no need to flaut it.Assuming God is omnipotent, how would any situation exist for him to display his greatness if he did not at he very least allow it?
But in the process of putting out all those fires and saving a lot of people, there are a lot of people who die in the fire as well. What about those people?He allowed fires to display his ability and character by putting them out and for the ones saved from the fires to praise his fire-quenching abilities and esteem the character shown in his willingness to put out fires that he had zero obligation to extinguish.
Ken
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