thesumo said: I like to put it this way: Say we take, for metaphor only, literaly God is an Author. When a human author writes that a character is doing an evil act, the author himself, while not committing evil, is ORDAINING evil. I realize this illistration falls through in that an author, to some extent, controls EVERY moment of each characters life, which is precisely why I brought the sovereignty point up.
To continue your metaphor, if the author has absolute sovereignty over his all characters, does he not have the absolute right to do all things according his good pleasure? All the events he depicts (ordains) must, therefore, be considered good not evil, irrespective of whether or not the characters are free or in bondage, and whether or not they do good or evil.
