And they would be whomever God has chosen. You literally said so yourself. So if Putin rules Russia then it is God's will. If Putin invades a sovereign country then it is God's will. If hundreds of thousands die because of this maniacs perverted desires then...is it still God's will?
It is. God takes full responsibility for all of that.
Isaiah 45:7 said:
I form light and create darkness,
I make weal and create woe;
I the Lord do all these things.
We are also arrogant if we question God’s sovereign will:
Job 38:1-7 said:
Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind and said, “Who is this who darkens the divine plan
By words without knowledge?
Now tighten the belt on your waist like a man,
And I shall ask you, and you inform Me!
Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding, Who set its measurements? Since you know.
Or who stretched the measuring line over it? On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone, When the morning stars sang togetherAnd all the sons of God shouted for joy?
There is a distinction between God’s moral will (what he intends for human beings to do), and His sovereign will (what He sovereignly ordains to occur), but God takes full responsibility for events, both good and bad.
Nah. That's too hard to do because it involves personal responsibility. It means that you yourself have to decide the difference between good and evil. Rather than being told.
Deciding what is good and evil is the epitome of arrogance and may even be abusive. What happens when my right is your wrong? What happens when my wrong is your right? Then we fight and kill.
It is necessary to defer to an authority for right and wrong that is greater than ourselves, to have an agreed upon system of morality that we all agree to. In the West, that is something called Rule of Law. Unless you are a fugitive, you likely have decided, as part of your “personal responsibility”, to submit yourself to this concept and the laws of the Australian government. Likewise, it is the system of rule of law that tells you that a sovereign nation called Ukraine does not deserve to be invaded and its people killed, because that is an affront to the laws the Ukrainians have decided. So in the end you have decided nothing except to trumpet the Western morality system of rule of law, which is greater than yourself, and which you have been told by the Australian government and the people there.
Personal responsibility is not to decide what morality is, for that is impossible, but to obey and conform to the moral laws you say you uphold as correct. You are personally responsible for obeying Australian law. Likewise, I uphold Biblical morality as correct and therefore I am responsible for acting in accordance with that morality. (Incidentally I have no trouble with laws through Romans 13.)
And on that basis God must take full responsibility for appointing Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. It makes the idea of a loving God a terrible joke.
He does take such responsibility. But it doesn’t make the idea of a loving God a terrible joke because God does not indiscriminately love everyone. He loves believers in Christ. Now he wants everyone to accept the and become believers, but in his sovereignty, not all will.
Romans 9:14-22 said:
What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? Far from it! For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will show compassion to whomever I show compassion.” So then, it does not depend on the person who wants it nor the one who runs, but on God who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very reason I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the earth.” So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?” On the contrary, who are you, you foolish person, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one object for honorable use, and another for common use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
If the Lord hardened Pharaoh, he also hardened Hitler. Frankly, many scholars argue that God
predicted the Holocaust in the “dry bones” passage in Ezekiel years before it happened! It was always part of the sovereign plan of God.
But it while it is not very loving to the Jewish people who got killed, who does God love?
Romans 9:23-29 said:
And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon objects of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, namely us, whom He also called, not only from among Jews, but also from among Gentiles, as He also says in Hosea:
“I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’
And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”
And in the place where it was said “You are not my people”
There they will be called sons of the living God.
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the sons of Israel may be like the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved; And just as Isaiah foretold:
“If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants,
We would have become like Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah.”
This is more like the love that protects God’s family. It’s like if you were in the middle of a war zone with your family, your priority wouldn’t be to help everyone, it would be to guide your family to safety. Believers in Christ are God’s family and His concern is loving them and guiding them through their respective lives. It’s not to save everyone from tyranny. He will sacrifice those intended for wrath on behalf of those who are being saved.
It goes back to what I said in the beginning: we are living in a fallen world, and eventually we will need to learn to accept it.
