Of course God is sovereign.
But that does not mean that God wills sin or evil. Or that God intends sin.
To say that God intends for someone to rape someone is just plain wrong.
God’s sovereignty means that good can come about when someone (the sinner or someone else) does GOOD in the face of someone other than God doing evil.
God
does
not
do
evil
or will evil or intend evil.
Evil is done by men and angels in disobedience to God.
Rape is evil.
Repeat after me, Mourdock you idiot, rape is evil.
The sovereignty of God in the face of evil done by men is a difficult teaching to explain to non-believers.
A politician like Dummb Mourdock would be far wiser to stick to the fundamental justice issues involved in the gotcha question.
The child conceived in the wake of a rape is innocent. Killing that child is unjust. The rapist is the evildoer and the rapist must be punished. The child is innocent.
That’s reasoning any person, Christian, Jew, Muslim, secularist can understand. Some may argue with it, resist it but it is defensible and communicable.
Leave the question of God’ sovereignty aside when asked about the rape and incest “exceptions.”
Just leave it aside, Mourdock. There is absolutely nothing to be gained for your good prolife intentions by venturing into the theology of God’s sovereignty and the question of evil.
Stick with
Child innocent.
Rapist guilty.
Child good. Rapist bad.
It’s not rocket science, stupid Mourdock.
You’ll have other chances to witness for your faith in God’s sovereignty. And before you do that on occasions when it actually serves God’s will to engage in theological discussion of God’s sovereignty, for God’s sake, stupid Mourdock, get your theology about God’s freedom and human freedom, God’s permissive will and God’s active willing,
get
it
straight.
Excellent. Would that someone who the MSM run to for comment on this subject could nail it to eloquently.
“The sovereignty of God in the face of evil done by men is a difficult teaching to explain to non-believers.”
Heck - it is hard for believers to understand too! (At least for me.) That is why a non-believer’s question of “so why did your mom live and your dad die if God was watching over them” (for instance) is a hard one - and another “gotcha” question for so many people.