Brennan Cook’s Reviews > Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion > Status Update

“But the Bible tells a story in which history-with all its seeming randomness, harshness, and mess—is divinely orchestrated, and in which suffering is baked into God's plan for salvation, which hinges on the suffering and death of a man on a cross. Indeed, from a Christian perspective, there is no such thing as chance or historical accident: God rules over every circumstance of our lives.” (McLaughlin, 125)