“This is where different views on sovereignty diverge. Some say God’s sovereignty is deterministic, meaning He does all the doing. Every thing that happens is God forcing it to happen. That every person who dies and goes to hell was purposefully, sovereignly created by God for that destiny.
One of the many problems with that point of view is that it totally dismantles the character of God that is revealed in the Bible. That He is love. That He is good. That He is just. That He is merciful.
Rather than God’s sovereignty being a machine that even He is trapped in, we understand that God is sovereign even over His own sovereignty! And the Bible reveals things about how God’s sovereignty works: First, that God has freed the wills of all mankind to give us a genuine choice whether we will accept salvation or reject it. Second, that God’s sovereignty allows for flex in His providential accomplishments. The 40 year wilderness wandering. Esther. Hastening the arrival of the Day of the Lord in 2 Peter 3. How can God be absolutely all-knowing and totally in charge but also allow these sort of free-will choices? He’s sovereign over His sovereignty and He not only allows true, relational interactivity with between us and Him, He desires it.”
