Alana L. 5k ("sovereign" 4/conflations: foreknow vs foreplan)

This series is based on this 14-minute video from Alana L.: 5 Signs Your Loved One is Becoming a Calvinist Point #5 still : K (part 4): "Sovereign, sovereign, sovereign, sovereign." Foreknow vs Foreplan "Oh," the Calvinist replies, "but God needed Assyria (or anybody, for that matter) to be/do evil for His plans, and so He foreplanned they would be/do evil. They had no ability to do anything else or to choose to be good because God planned to use their evilness. And so it had to be that way." My reply to them: "No, I think God foreplanned to use Assyria's self-chosen evilness to discipline Israel, but He did not foreplan them to be/do evil. Assyria had a choice in who they were and what they did. And God foreknew they would be/chose evil, and so He found a way to work their evil into His plans. But if Assyria had chosen to be good instead of evil, God would've for...