Amazeroth wrote:PresMusharraf wrote:Molotov wrote:
That you think that the Devil is involved in events you might consider evil on this Earth. I mean, it's not odd, lots of people think like that. As an excuse for evil, though, it doesn't work. The Devil, if he exists in the form you described, is doing the work of God. Man is the only source of evil, as to commit an evil act it must be through choice, and we (unlike the Angels, fallen or otherwise) have free will and the choice it grants.
doing the work of God? How so? The Devil broke ranks with God. How then can he do God's will?
Again basically what Molotv said. It is called causa secunda and means that even though the individual is doing evil, God still planned that something good comes from it.
I wouldn't go as far as Molotov and say that the Devil is doing God's will, I'd say that even if the Devil broke ranks with God forever, something good comes out of it, and that's the freedom of choice.
I will go as far as Molotov.