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[–]Cornfed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes such happenings are inevitable if God allows His creations any agency.

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So is God not able or willing to take it and it's inhabitants back from Satan, rather than judging it by fire or extinction-level catastrophe?

[–]Cornfed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He is able, but it is not part of the plan. Lets take an analogy. Say you were in charge of a bunch of kids and they were messing up the house. You would want to induce them to not be messy. Inevitably some will be induced faster than others and will have to suffer from the messiness of those others. Now, you are ultimately in control of how messy the house is and could just clean it yourself or beat the crap out of the kids when they didn't clean it any time you wanted, but that wouldn't accomplish your goal of getting the kids to be tidy of their own volition. It is like this with Satan currently occupying the world.