[L,TOWM]

>>>>>>>the sovereignty of God, as the loss of human life
does<<<<<<<

If God is Sovereign (and I believe that He is) then His hand was upon this incident--and yes ICor does come to mind--"does not rejoice in a wrong", but in many ways this is too poetic a justice to pass up for many (myself included).

Another passage that comes to mind is that one in Gen 12 "curse those who curse you"--you gotta admit, a bulldozer running over you is a pretty hefty curse...

Maybe some of her buddies will start looking at life as being more than a game now, and start a genuine search for deeper meaning, which will lead them straight to...Him. ><>

[Paul_B]

It sounds like you are more confident that this was an act of God than am I. I'm rather more hesitant than you seem to be to ascribe this event to God's will.

Or, at least to His perfect will. As I intimated earlier, we have no way of knowing whether His will included a later change of mind in the deceased; she wouldn't be the first young person to have done so. We do know, however, that He desires that "none should perish". That's a dangerous line for man to cross.

It's one thing to kill a person out of necessity; it's another to gloat about it, as many here have done. But then, while they normally share much in common, ultimately there is a fine but definite dividing line between patriotism and Christian discipleship.