God’s Sovereignty Over Evil
God’s Sovereignty Over Evil Acts 2:22–24 , 29–33 , 36 Excerpt That God’s rational creatures, angelic and human, have free agency (power of personal decision as to what they shall do) is clear in Scripture throughout; we would not be moral beings, answerable to God the judge, were it not so, nor would it then be possible to distinguish, as Scripture does, between the bad purposes of human agents and the good purposes of God, who sovereignly overrules human action as a planned means to his own goals ( Gen. 50:20 ; Acts 2:23 ; 13:26-39 ). Yet the fact of free agency confronts us with mystery, inasmuch as God’s control over our free, self-determined activities is as complete as it is over anything else, and how this can be we do not know. Regularly, however, God exercises his sovereignty by letting things take their course, rather than by miraculous intrusions of a disruptive sort. More Packer, J. I. Concise Theology: A Guide to Historic Ch...