God Author of Sin?

Intense discussions on the forum have been/are ongoing about free will, predestination, the origin of evil, God’s sovereignty, final destiny, etc. From the very beginning I have placed great emphasis on this site on the fact that God is GOD, i.e. “the One who disposes all things and with whom nothing goes wrong” (as also stated on the homepage). If that is true, then there can of course be no such thing as a “free will,” i.e. a will over which God would not have control. Whatever a creature may will, there is ONE who pulls the strings. Or as it is written in Proverbs 16:9:
“The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.”

This truth always provokes much resistance because with this acknowledgment man falls from his pedestal. We are not beings (read: gods) who determine our own fate, but clay figures under the direction of the great Potter.
Whoever comes to know who this Potter is and what m a g n i f i c e n t Plan He is working out, would not even want it otherwise!

One of these days I was challenged by opponents to state on my homepage that, according to me, God is the Author of sin. I know that accusation. When you say you believe that nothing goes wrong with God, and therefore that the entrance of sin and evil into this world was in accordance with God’s Plan, then according to some you make God into a sinner. The truth, however, is exactly the opposite!

Sin = missing the goal. If the presence of the Adversary and the success he achieved were contrary to God’s Plan, then God missed the goal and then He would thus be the ultimate sinner! If, on the other hand, God created the Adversary and pre-calculated that man would eat from the forbidden fruit (with all its consequences), then with Him nothing goes wrong. Only God knows that evil, in the end, will have brought forth the ultimate good. Therefore, the presence of evil in this world is not God’s fault, but His merit!

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