“Did God ordain and desire the evil of the crucifixion, or was Christ overwhelmed by the power of men?”
God did what it took to ensure that salvation was available to all men, not just those who won the lottery. God, the omipotent and omniscient, is not about to be overwhelmed by His creations. I can hardly be overwhelmed by entries on my Palm Pilot, neither will God be overwhelmed by us.
If everything we do is from God, whether sinful or no, then we are in no way responsible. If I program my Palm Pilot to do something, it is not responsible for what I program. I am. If I program it to send up a balloon text at 8:23 am each morning with accompanying music saying that MarkBsnr is the most wonderful human being in the world, what kind of idiot would I be if I got disgusted with it and threw it into the garbage simply because it did what I programmed it to do?
I'm afraid the analogy does not work. For one thing we do not say that everything we do is "from" God. I do not sit here idle and then receive an instruction from God to go sin, and then do it. It doesn't work like that. Likewise the Palm Pilot analogy doesn't work because if you leave it alone it just sits there and does nothing. If God leaves us alone, we actively sin.