Is God is in Control? ...of everything? I don't think so.

I know that the whole "God is in Control of everything" doctrine is an engrained in most peoples thinking, but in all of the stories mentioned your post have the same principles at work. God didn't cause or intend any of those things to happen, but he make another way to bring about His plan. There is a Satan who looks for people that he can destroy. He tries to destroy them, and God still makes His plan work even though Satan tries, and sometimes we help to screw it up. God is not in control, the way that we think He is, because if he was there would be no murder, rape, robbery, catasrophy, torture, etc. That's something that you can see if you just understand that God is control in Heaven, because there's none of that stuff up there. On earth however, he gave man dominion of the earth. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Genesis 1:26

The notion that God is in control of everything that goes on in our lives or in the world is so far from the bible truth, it is ridiculous. The bible itself seems to spell out quite clearly that God is NOT in control of things on this earth.