I have heard people asking, "Why did this happen?" Why, why, why?
Why would a young man walk into a school of children and gun down as many as possible?
Why would God allow this to happen?
The short answer is that God loves Adam Lanza (the shooter) enough to give him free will to not only refuse to follow God, but sufficiently free will to harm other human lives that God loves equally.
Could God have stopped this?
Absolutely.
In doing so, however, He would not only be overturning every ounce of authority that He has granted to human institutions, such as governments, but He would also be violating His very nature of love in the allowance of free will. He would make impossible, in a singular event, the ability of mankind of choose His way or not. He would overturn, by precedent, every moral consequence throughout all of human society, effectively eliminating the incentives for humanity to lean towards eternity. He would be giving humanity a gift that we do not collectively deserve.
That said, I trust and hope that God will give special credence to the students who were truly innocent, or the teachers who gave their lives in defense of their classes. Ultimately though, the ways of God are well beyond even the most meager attempt at understanding that I have presented above, and we have to trust that He will balance this atrocity out, not only in the immediate future but also in eternity.
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