Consider the possibility that God permits and allows everything by default.
The only time we see Him is when He is intervening into the normal course of nature, decayed since the fall:
Rom 8: WNT
19. For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, is waiting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God.
20. For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it).
21. Yet there was always the hope that at last the Creation itself would also be set free from the thraldom of decay so as to enjoy the liberty that will attend the glory of the children of God.(or “forced decay”)
So everything is allowed by default. Accidents, fate, chance all contribute to the events of this world. When God acts, it is not to allow or permit anything... it is to intervene against that which is occurring by course of nature.
Creation is currently subject to decay, corruption, ruin, and destruction. This is the reason why we have calamities, earthquakes, tsunamis, epidemics, riots, revolutions, and every other chaotic event that man suffers. God is not doing these things. They are the result of the “confused” and “corrupt” state of creation.
God is not giving permission or allowance to any of this. He set creation in motion in the beginning and it is tooling along according to the rules put in place at creation.
The vast majority of events that we see around us are merely the fallen/falling nature of creation “taking its course” within the bounds, rules, and laws that God put in place since creation. When God does act, it is to intervene against nature taking its depraved downward course toward total corruption. Normal life means that rain falls, fills a gully, overruns the dam, and floods a town. Hundreds of lives are lost but not because of something God did. These lives were lost because nature took its course. God is only seen in the intervention and we cannot always tell when He does this. It may happen a thousand times a day in our lives. We cannot always tell unless the intervention against nature happens before our eyes in the form of a "miracle."
But the idea of "allow" and "permit" are meaningless when you consider that He is "allowing" and "permitting" everything.
