Curious if God preordained Hitler

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I found something very helpful regarding the differing spellings and meanings of scripture in the Hebrew regarding whether or not God is the author of evil. Here is the link as well as an excerpt:

What the Bible Says About the Origin of Evil

"the Bible never attributes the creation of rasha' or "moral wickedness" to God. On the contrary, it tells us over and over again that He alone is good (Mark 10:18). It says that all the works of His hands "are verity and justice" (Psalm 111:7). He is light, says the apostle John, "and in Him is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5). If He creates ra'ah, or "calamity," it is always for a good and righteous purpose within the all-embracing scheme of His eternal and sovereign plan. For example, He sometimes uses affliction to compel people to seek His face (Hosea 5:15). Similarly, He works all things, including trials and troubles, "together for good to those who love [Him]" (Romans 8:28, NKJV). God may have any number of reasons for weaving ra'ah, or hardships and difficulties, into the fabric of human experience. But He is not and cannot be the author of rasha (moral wickedness)."
 
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All of us, each and every one, is capable of the same kind of evil as Hitler perpetuated on the world.
That is exactly what it means to call ourselves sinners. God knows that we are all like that, all capable of the same evil as Hitler(or Stalin, or Mao, or Pol Pot and the Kims), and yet, while we were still sinners, he sent down his only begotten son to redeem us.

There is nothing special about Hitler's evil. Jordan Peterson gives a useful psychological exercise for us to do when we watch shows of evil people, and that is imagine the circumstances that would bring ourselves to commit the evil of the villains that are depicted to us.

Dystopian visions of the future do this for us too

It is Providence, and the Grace of God that has provided us all with the kind of society where such circumstances are limited. But for the Grace of God, being Hitler may well be the norm for any society.

So if and when we find ourselves in the kind of world where being Hitler is almost inconceivable, our own Western society of freedom and humantiarianism even, this is something to be grateful for, and is a state of affairs well worth preserving and fighting to maintain from those who seek to destroy it.
 
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