But I’m still having trouble seeing why God would choose a side in the Hundred Years War, and especially why He would decide the flagrant sinner was a more worthy a King than Henry VI (who at the time was still an innocent child).
We do not & cannot think like God. It is nice to think, “This makes sense, I agree this is God’s doing. This doesn’t make sense, this cannot be God’s doing.”
& God does allow us understanding from time to time.
We do know (or believe) God wanted Joan of Arc to fight. She did. But was it to place Charles VII on the throne?
& maybe it wasn’t that Charles VII deserved to be king, but France merited Charles VII
Wow- I’m not Catholic myself (Orthodox here)- but I think God used her to promote the Christian faith (apostolic Christianity). She was killed for it. She was a martyr. I think she even likely knew that would be her fate. She was a woman. It was a miracle in and of itself that she was allowed to do what she did in that time. I doubt she was ignorant as to what would eventually happen to her. God uses unlikely people to carry out His Will. I’m certain she knew she’d be killed by her own and did it anyway. Her faith in God was more important to her than anything else. St. Joan of Arc was and is amazing.
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