Adrian Jones . . .

 

People die all the time.  There are likely people dying right now, at this moment, as I type on my keyboard.  Some are dying from illness, short or extended.  Some from their body failing in their young or old age.  Some from violence or from injuries sustained in an accident.  Some people die alone or in the presence of their family.  Some die along with many other people, in a mass shooting or a plane crash or a building collapse.  Some thousands of people die in natural disasters like floods, earth quakes, or volcanic eruptions.  

Then, there are people who die after a cruel sustained assault and neglect from the very people who should be taking care of them.  

Adrian Jones falls into that last category.  

In 2015 Adrian, age 7, was tortured, beaten, starved, isolated, and finally near the end of that year, he was left alone to die, and much of this was photographed by his parents themselves and on surveillance cameras in the home where his father and step mother committed these atrocities against him. 

Confined in stress positions for hours

Forced to spend hours outside in a filthy, cold, pool of water

Bound to exercise equipment

Beaten bloody

Confined in the bathroom where he would spend the last moments of his life

And after he died the final assault against him, after nine months of abuse, was for his lifeless body to be fed to pigs that were purchased specifically for this gruesome task.. 

Is it entirely unreasonable for me to ask of my Christian friends - what was God doing while this was happening to Adrian ?  
Was God to busy to be bothered?  
Was God aware or unaware of what was going on in the home where Adrian and his abusers lived?  

Did God design this to happen as part of his sovereign grand plan?

Actually, my Christian friend, never mind - I really don't need an answer.  God has a very, very long history of doing absolutely nothing.

"If God’s going to act like he doesn’t exist, I’ll act like he doesn’t exist as well."
~unknown

bob

r.u.reasonable@gmail.com