Is violent crime under God's providence?
You may have lost or know someone who has lost a loved one — especially in such a brutal way. Lots of people ask this question in a very antagonistic and theoretical way. I think it’s the kind of question that God is very willing to hear. Perfectly Sovereign, Wonderfully Good Some Pastors at funerals will mess up or try to bring comfort the wrong way. Some might say, “I don’t think it was God’s plan for this to happen.” Maybe all the pastor meant was that God never does anything wrong and never sins against anyone. But it’s one thing to say that God never does wrong, and it’s a very different thing to say that God does not govern or oversee or direct or control the wrong that happens in this world. If that’s what the pastor meant — that God doesn’t do that — I think he’s mistaken, because the Bible teaches from cover to cover that God does, in fact, govern all the details of the world, including the bad things that happen to us and to our friends. That, in fact, I would argue, is wha