EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IS NOT THE WILL OF GOD.

Three thousand persons died from mudslide in Mexico, two thousand kids died from Farmine in Sudan, four thousand kids died from the Rwandan genocide, seven thousand from the Biafran war and lastly, Deborah Samuel lynched and incinerated beyond recognition.
The critical question that pulps in, has been asked for ages; where is the all good and omnipotent God amidst all these pains and suffering?
Note; the traditional way of answering and escaping this trilemmatic question has been giving numerously, in this manner,thus;
whatever that happens, is the will of God, we cannot question him, and there must be a greater purpose for it.
At surface point, this may appear reasonable to consolably accept our fate and praise God in all situations. While praising God in all situations may be reasonable, alluding the cause of all situations to God is unreasonable, theologically incorrect and biblically faulty.
Our minds have been induced to traditionally believe that all that happens is within the will of God, and this false presumption is first attributed to Job, who during his travails, out of desperation and frustration concluded that God was somehow behind the chain of causation. (Job 1:21 & Job 2:10)
But one must ask himself, to what end or greater purpose is it than saving the lives of three thounsand kids from the cold hands of death?

Jesus's teaching as a case study

The teachings and interpretations of Jesus Christ who is consubstantially one with God, contravenes the notion that all events proceeds from the father.
Jesus proclaimed and expounded the true belief that heaven wages war against, rather than somehow in a way, support oppression, death, famine, pain and suffering of any sort.

Note; in the book of Luke, when Jesus saw the woman with back pain for 18 years, he said the woman has been under the influence of the devil but it was time to let her free whether or not it was the Sabbath day, he did not say it was the will of the father that she should suffer.

Note; when Jesus told the parable of the sower, on the issue of who sowed the weed when the sower went away? He answered, the enemy has done this.
(Matthew 13:28)

Note; when Jesus taught his disciples how to pray, he said pray like this "our father let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven". (Matthew 6:10)
"the implication of this is that God's will is not yet been carried out on earth as it should"


Note; the book of John teaches that there is no darkness at all in God for he is good, and the new testament generally makes us to understand, that the god of this world is the devil, who is out to kill, steal and destroy, but God is out to give life abundantly. ( 1 John 1:5) ( 2 Corinthians 4:4) (John 10:10)

Note; when Jesus saw the man born blind from birth, he said it was neither because of his sins nor that of his parents, but that the works of God be made manifest. (John 9)
( the work of God here is in his liberation, and not his affliction) because God is not an orchestrator of suffering.

The Freewill omnipotence argument

Omnipotence grammatically means power beyond bounds, that is to say that God possesses power to do as he pleases. While this is grammatically correct, the grammatical implication cannot apply to the Abrahamic God.

This is because the Abrahamic God, though omnipotent, is bound by principles which cannot be broken, and one of such is that he cannot consistently interrupt the freewill which he has given to man. ( Joshua 24:15) ( Galatians 5:13)
(Genesis 2:16-17)

There's no gainsaying that Freewill given to man by God is a limitation in someway to the power of God, this is because God cannot do for man what he has assigned to man to do for himself.
In fact the Bible notes that Jesus stands at the heart of everyone willing to enter if only we will let him. In otherwords he cannot force himself in.
(Revelations 3:20)

With respect to the issue of evil, freewill has a significant bearing which we oftentime overlook and fastly rest lazily, on the pillow of the false traditional saying that "everything is the will of God".

If we observe meticulously, more than 95 percent of the evil and suffering has a sufficient element of freewill attached.

Note: on the suffering of a million unpaid pensioneers, lies beneath the chain of causation, the malicious decision of a greedy politician.
Note; on the suffering of Deborah Samuel, lies beneath the chain of causation, the unbridled enthusiasm of bloodthirsty ignorant Muslims.
Note; on the suffering of an accident victim, lies beneath the chain of causation, the recklessness of a hit and run driver. Etc
Everyone of them will be held accountable by God for their actions.

To put the efficacy of freewill into context, take for instance, a scenario where a man raped a ten year old girl to death, it will be wrong to quickly assert that if God didn't want it so, it won't have happened.
Look, behind every action whether good or bad, lies a connection of deep thoughts and actual preparation towards that act, the man who committed such evil must have sat down to think whether to do it or not, he must have heard the voice of the Holy spirit trying to purge and dissuade his mind from committing such acts, but he succumbed to the devil's.
At that point he was in a situation where God was trying wage war, but he decided to use his freewill against the law of God rather than uphold God's word, on the other hand, we cannot fail to admit that there are situations where we intended to do something terrible but later changed our minds after hearing a corrective voice deep down. That voice is God's.
If all things were the will of God, one must force himself to logically wonder why God should on the last day hold the rapist responsible when it was his will after all that he should rape the minor to death.
The truth of the matter is that, freewill presuposes responsibility, without giving us freewill to choose between good and bad, God has no right to attach responsibility to our actions.
(Ecclesiastes 12:14)
It is because he has given us power to choose, that is why he can judge us, if we have been predetermined like robots to act out a script according to his will, then it will be tantamount to divine victimisation to send certain persons to hell when you predetermined them to act that way.
The implication of this, is that man's freewill is so powerful that it can and has been disrupting the will of God.
Now let's take a biblical account as an example, God told Abraham that he will bear a son whom he shall call Isaac and he shall be the symbol of the covenant.
Abraham ran out of patience and by his own freewill, took his maid and later bore Ishmael. That was totally contrary to Godswill, in consequence of that, when Abraham pleaded to God to make Ishmael the symbol of the covenant, God refused, saying that Isaac remains the chosen one. But because he is a merciful God he agreed to give a little blessing to Ishmael so he will not go empty handed.
( Genesis 17:18-21)
Another scenario to look at, was when Israel requested for a king and God instructed Samuel to annoint Saul, but later the Bible recorded that God was angry with Saul because he departed from his will and chose a wayward path for himself which brought him a disastrous end. Such end was not God's will for Saul, the Bible notes that God's will is that everyone should come to him and be blessed. (1 Samuel 15:11)
(2 Peter 3:9)

Another scenario to look out is that recorded in the early times during the days of Noah, when men were extremely wicked and lived a pervert life, the Bible recorded that God regretted creating man. (Genesis 6:6)
Note; while some authors argue that God's regret is not really like human regret and is merely anthropomorphism and not true to say that he regretted.
However in my own view, any reasonable person would wonder why God consequently destroyed the world with flood and wiped out that lawless generation if he really did not regret creating them.

We may lastly look at the situation of David and Beersheba, by David's own lust and freewill not God's will, he orchestrated the death of Uriah and married his wife Beersheba, who then bore a son for him, God clearly stated that such act displeased him. And consequently that child did not live, so also did David pay for his own freewill.
(2 Samuel 11:24-27) (2 Samuel 12:9-12)

On the other hand, there are several Bible verses where God allowed man to act out his freewill and choose for himself his fate, and eventually men did not disrupt his good will but aligned to it. For instance God instructed Jonah to go preach to the people of Nineveh to repent or be destroyed, they hackened to God's word and was saved. Now compare this to that of Noah, where the people blatantly refused and met their Waterloo. (Jonah 3:1-10) (Genesis 6)
Is it not blind and unreasonable to say both scenarios were thoroughly the will of God? When men whom God has given freewill chose for themselves to do good or not and received accordingly the consequences thereof.

In conclusion, we must purge ourselves of this traditional but false notion that all that happens, whether good or evil is the will of God, because the assumption unequivocally warrants the irrational belief that God and Satan is one and the same, or perhaps that both are working in some sort of compromising unanimity.

we should learn to take responsibility for our actions, learn to wage war against evil with God and strive to make this world a better place with our freewill.