He let it happen because He respects peoples' free will -- even the free will to do terrible evil. Anything less and we would just be puppets.
Conversely, I do not believe that God kills innocent people just to "teach us a lesson." God can make good come out of evil, but he will never cause the evil himself.
42 posted on 11/16/2001 1:14:44 PM PST by Black Cat
Conversely, I do not believe that God kills innocent people just to "teach us a lesson." God can make good come out of evil, but he will never cause the evil himself.
Correct. But he will allow it to happen. Read the book of Job.