According to the Associated Press, "Philippine troops went house to house Thursday threatening to use force to move hundreds of residents from the steaming slopes of a lava-spilling volcano. Some farmers begged to stay to guard their livestock while their families spent Christmas Eve in a shelter. Volunteers distributed games and ice cream to children in some 45 evacuation centers and were preparing meals to try to restore some holiday cheer."
Some people might reason:
• I have faith, anything is possible. God can protect me during a volcanic eruption.
• God can do it; if faith is something I can muster, why not?
• Yet few of us would take that approach, yet some would justify it on the basis of Jesus’ teachings.
• Faith is not simply something we can coerce, and faith can be falsely founded.