Spiritual Journey Dilemma

[Kat]

Ray has already written so much about these things, so I just look for the particular parts that match up with what is being discussed. I think this section in the article 'The Synagogue of Satan - There's One Near You' will go along with this.

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God is both the Creator and User of many forms of evil, and yet is without sin and not evil, Himself. God uses evil for good. And this is a prerogative that only God uses righteously 100% of the time.

Why do I spend so much time on this subject of evil's Authorship? Because it is one of the most import truths in the whole world! It is the answer to maybe the most colossal enigma in all creation—Why is there, and must there be, evil in the world? Let me state with all humility that no theologian who believes that Satan is the author of evil, can ever explain why God put evil in the "tree of the knowledge of GOOD..."!! They might attempt a feeble explanation if God had put evil in its own tree, but not when God put it in the same tree with good! God is responsible for not only all the evil in the world, but God is responsible for EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE, and God is the most responsible Being in the universe. Just Who's responsible for this mess? God is! And just Who's going to clean up this mess? God is!
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NOTHING HAS EVER GONE AGAINST GOD'S PLAN OR INTENTION

No thing, and no body, in the entirety of the universe have ever gone against God's "intention" or His preordained "plan," even when God Himself has caused many to go against His stated "will." God's will is going to be completely realized at the consummation of all His intentions and plan (will and intention are not one and the same). It is God's intention that men go against His will. So what may appear to be a failure in God's dealing with mankind is nothing of the kind. All that happens was intended to happen, and all that does not happen was not intended to happen. Here is wisdom.

We have seen that not even Satan can go against God's intentions. Satan needs permission from God to do his dirty work. Since God is responsible (but not accountable—seeing that nothing He does is without a great and beneficial purpose), God takes responsibility for His whole creation, and that is why everything will turn out perfect for every one of God's creatures.
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mercy, peace and love
Kat

[Craig]

This has been a good thread but alas it has jumped the track of the original topic and turned into debate.  We'll lock it now.

Free will is a tough subject to grasp, if someone wants to start another thread on it that would be fine, Ray has spent alot of time covering this topic.