God's Sovereign Will(s?)

[St.Roymond]

@Daniel_Fisher

God ordaining the circumstances. . . planning even David’s own sins

God planned for David to sin? That’s vile.

@Daniel_Fisher

all in such a way as was so ordained and worked by God so that the words are a perfect, God-inspired example so that we would have this perfect example of what true and real penitence looks like, and so the words that David prayed in repentance are the very words that God wanted written, word-for word.

So David becomes a puppet. Yay.

@Daniel_Fisher

I fail to see that if God worked behind the scenes, so to speak, specifically to avoid any manipulation of the writer whatsoever,

But your description above says that God totally manipulated David in order to get the words God wanted.

@Daniel_Fisher

Besides, don’t all Christians agree that this is what happened with Pilate and the crucifixion? That what Pilate et al did according to their own free choices was nevertheless according to God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge? How exactly would that be any different?

Nowhere is there any indication that God manipulated the circumstances of Pilate’s life. Indeed, it wouldn’t really matter who had ended up as procurator; the political situation would have been the same and the Sanhedrin would have manipulated it the same.