If, as I John 1:5 says, "God is light and in him is no darkness," how can evil, in any sense, be attributed to God? Wouldn't Satan have to be credited as the ultimate author of evil? God forbid! But why do I say this? According to Ephesians 1:11, God "works all things according to the counsel of his will." That means that Satan exists by God's decree, evil exists by God's decree, sin exists by God's decree, error exists by God's decree – everything that exists, exists because God willed it to. Why? For the complete knowledge of His glorious character and the fulfillment of His purpose to "unite all things in him (Christ)!"
Satan is not an independent agent. He is the hardest worker for God's glory in the plan of God. He doesn't believe that all his adversarial work is accomplishing the will of God to exalt his holy name and his Son, but it is! The more he flexes his muscles, schemes his schemes, or heralods his errors and deceits, the more he contributes to the ultimate purpose of God. We are to polish the monuments that God builds from the rubble of the work of the Destroyer.
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