A professor at Seattle Pacific University told students Thursday night that the campus shooting that left a student dead and two others seriously injured was not God’s will for their school.

“There’s no explaining it,” Professor of Biblical Studies Frank Spina told students. “‘This is not God’s plan. This is not God’s will. This is not God’s way of teaching us a lesson. Any lesson we could have learned out of this could have been learned otherwise.”

Police say the shooting would have been significantly worse if not for the heroic efforts of a student who pepper sprayed the shooter then disarmed him as he tried to reload.

Jon Meis, a 22-year-old Christian engineering student and teaching assistant, noticed the gunman reloading and made his move.  Friends say that Meis has always been “quiet and religious” and that his actions to stop the gunman showed in action his beliefs in being a “selfless, courageous man.”

Meis was taken the hospital for minor injuries after the altercation and has not spoken to the press.  His family’s answering machine has a message asking those who call to pray for the victims and their families.