Glory to God ftd......Praise His Holy Name!
Was God glorified by the flood that killed most all living things? Was God glorified by the distruction of Sodom? Was God glorified by the slaughter of the Egyptians? Was God glorified as a result of the Egyptian army being drowned?
Exd 3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this [is] my name for ever, and this [is] my memorial unto all generations.
Exd 9:16 And in very deed for this [cause] have I raised thee up, for to shew [in] thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth
Rom 9:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Pro 16:4 The LORD hath made all [things] for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Mal 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
Good! Now we are getting somewhere! So God is the author of evil/sin is He? Did He want those to die in the Flood, or was it because of their wickedness
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heartDid God want the Egyptians to die, is that why He sent plague after plague so they could repent. Phaoroah hardened his own heart the first two times (Ex.8:15,32)
Was God 'glorifed' when the children were thrown to Molach? That after all, according to your wicked system, was Decreed by God as good since it also resulted in His Glory! According to Jer.19 such a thing never even came into God's mind that the Jews would kill their own children. Yet, according to Calvinism, all thoughts and acts are God's will Isa.45:7 discusses that God gives judgement when grace is rejected but that is not what God wants as His first choice. That is man's rejection that moves God to Judge.
Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live, turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways for why will ye die, O house of Israel (Ezk,33:11), Matthew 23:37: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen her chickens under her wings and ye would not Lk.9:56, For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives but to save them, Rom 10:21, But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people 2Pet.3:9, The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness, but islongsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any perish, but that all should come to repentanceYou want to string a bunch of proof texts to show God's righteous judgement and pretend they relate to your 'eternal Decree' that makes every evil act ever done by Angel or man is directly tied to God's directive will. For every proof text you can string together to show God's judgement, I can get one that show God's Love and mercy for His creation!(Jonah 4:11)