I’m glad Donald Trump is alive, and I’m quite confident God is, too. But my understanding of Christian theology makes me certain that God did not save the former president from assassination.

God did not want people to be killed on Oct. 7 or Jan. 6 or last night in Butler, Pennsylvania. God is the author of life, and God is on the side of life. God wants us to live and flourish.

That is just God, and I know that you know that just as much as me, and I pray for you, and I really pray because I don't know why you did this." Harris declined to speak at sentencing.

She is quite right. Jesus did not die to appease an angry God, but I would still leave my words as they were. What God would not ultimately ask of us, God freely gives.

Q. I am 18 years old, and recently the “problem of evil” really threw me for a loop and caused me a lot of pain. I am asking for your help in understanding it a bit more. Why did God, who is ...

With this in mind, we can be sure that God did not save Donald Trump but not the person killed by mistake. God did not save Trump, for that matter, but not the kids at Sandy Hook or Uvalde.