No, The Texas Floods Are Not Some Mysterious Part Of God’s Plan, by John Daniel Davidson

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist, July 08, 2025

John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.

Christians are permitted to hate sin and death without explaining how they fit into some inscrutable providence of Almighty God.

The flooding in Texas that has killed at least 100 people, including dozens of little girls at a Christian camp on the Guadalupe River, is the kind of catastrophe that causes people to question the existence of God. How could a loving God allow this to happen? How can a system of Christian belief in a God of justice and mercy be reconciled with such suffering and devastation and death?

These questions aren’t new, of course. They regularly and understandably resurface at times of immense tragedy and suffering as a natural human reaction to the problem of evil and the pain of death. At such times, Christians in particular are called upon to explain how the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient God is consistent with a world beset by death and suffering. …

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