Denny Burk points out some of what’s wrong about Greg Boyd’s response to John Piper’s reflections on the Minneapolis bridge collapse.
In short, Boyd fails to understand compatabilism (the idea that God’s sovereign will and man’s choices go hand-in-hand…..as James White has said, “What God decrees outside of time, man freely chooses in time.”) Consequently, Boyd fails to understand how God relates to His fallen creation and that God’s sovereignty is not contradicted by evil acts (whether human or Satanic) or calamities of nature (“acts of God”, as a typical insurance policy reads).