A few days ago we ran a post about the
will of God and the COVID-19 pandemic. In the process of researching what
God’s will meant to the Lord Jesus and his apostles, I came across a verse
that initially perplexed me, then later seemed to provide some interesting
insights into the subject. I did not bother to mention it in the COVID
post because it was one of those theological rabbit trails, heading off through
the forest from where we were at the time to somewhere entirely different. But
the questions raised by the verse certainly merit a full post’s worth of
consideration, and then some.
I’ve been mulling it over ever since, so let’s lay out the
problem that occurred to me and see where it takes us ... carefully, of
course.