Ah yes, the question of the ages. According to some God has allowed sin, if for no other reason than it should be ultimately and finally destroyed never to return.
But as Paul makes perfectly clear, such things do not affect
the elect.
Indeed, even the choiciest of choices, chosen by the choosiest of choosers
affect the elect not in the least.
(Rom 8)
31What then shall we say to these things? If God
is for us, who
can beagainst us?
32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
33Who shall bring a charge against
God’s elect?
It is God who justifies.
34Who
ishe who condemns?
It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written:
“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
38For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
39nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.