Why Did A Just God Allow Satan To Tempt Angels And Human Beings?
Our human sense of justice demands the isolation of persons who are a threat to the well-being of others. Thus we feel that God should have isolated Satan to prevent him from spreading his rebellion against God. Isolating Satan, however, would not have necessarily made this world safe and secure from the rise of sin. As Satan sinned without any external temptation, so also mankind could have fallen without a tempter. In this case human beings would have become a Satan. God saw that the ultimate solution was to be found not in the isolation but in the immunization of his creatures from the power of evil. The latter could be realized through the experience of the fall, redemption, and final restoration. 3. Was God responsible for the sinning of his creatures by allowing them to be tempted? No, because temptation in itself has no power to make a person sin. God had provided the power to resist temptation and by exercising it, human holy nature could have been confirmed in holy character.
