Eden, thank you for explaining your views more fully.
I have numbered your responses from this post...
1-3 - So god can cause earthquakes, can prevent earthquakes but only some of them are deliberately casued by him in order to smite people.
4 - God can forewarn his buddies about earthqaukes when he is using then to smite his enemies.
5 - God can forknow all earthquakes but he might be caught by surprise by earthquakes that are not for the purpose of smiting. Sometimes he chooses not to know what is going on.
Imagine a driver who lost control of his car on a wet road and kills a group of pedestrians becasue his tyres were bald and his brake pads were worn out. In court his defense was "I chose not to know about the condition of my car, therefore I am not responsible".
6 - Since Jesus' resurrection god has not been involved in much.
What are we supposed to do with this assertion? God isn't responsible for his inaction because he has gone fishing for the past 2000 years. Is anybody supposed to find this convincing?
7 - Preventing a tsunami would rob people of free will whether or not to believe in him.
This is wrong for so many reasons. For a start the issue is not believing or not believing it is whether or not to worship and obey him. Don't the "demons believe and shudder?" Evidence of god's existence in no way removes a person's free will regarding whether or not submit to him. How anybody can read the gospels and make this assertion is very puzzling. Did Jesus not perform all sorts of miracles to provide evidence of who he was? Did this rob anybody of free will and force them to obey him?
Secondly god could have simply calmed the tsunami wave as it rose from the sea floor before any human was even aware it existed. He could have done his good works in secret motivated only by love. That is what I would have done. Why is god less loving than me?
8 - This is a jumble of excuses. God might have a good reason for leaving 250 000 people to perish. If he stops tsunamis where does it stop? He offers the resurrection hope.
Unless you can propose a sensible reason why letting a quarter of a million people drown was an act of love you are guilty of sophistry. The question only relates to suffering casued by the way god made the world. That is where it could stop, with god dealing with his own mistakes. The resurrection hope is demeaning to the value of human life. This life matters. You are selling a religion of death.
9 - Earthquakes are necessary for life.
I have answered this 5 or 6 times. Plate tectonics are necessary, earthquakes are not. We can have all the benefits of geology including mountains, with none of the hazards. Plates don't need to get stuck. Even if god is too dumb to design a world without earthquakes that still does not answer why he passively observed a tsunami drown 250 000 men, women and children on 26th December 2004