Yeah, and I suppose God wanted Mohammad to write the Quran.
WOW! I did a triple take on this one. :) I've been thinking about this response for a half an hour and I'm still not sure what to say. In your mind it is correct to compare the writing of the Bible with the writing of the Quran. I humbly pray that lurkers will see where both of us are coming from.
Well, in your Reformed theology is it not right to say that God wanted Judas to betray Christ? Was it not God who made Pontius Pilate? Was it not God's decision that Christ would be condmened. Or was it the Sanhedrin's doing? Has not everything been preordained from before the world even existed? Is it not God who planned it all? Who is really responsible here?
I think you should pause and wonder for a few hours about your own theological precepts and wonder what they really mean for lukers.
If God is in charge and we have no minds unless God makes one up for us, then the writing of John's Gospel is God-inspired just as the wiritng of Mohammad must be. He uses the good and the evil to accomplish His plan, isn't that what your theology teaches? This is not an endorsement of Mohammad's work any more than saying that Judas did his part in God's plan. Did either have a choice?
After all God gives us faith or lack of faith; God hardens our hearts or he doesn't. God saves some and God destroys others. It's all the Reformed God's doing.