Q. 1. “Is God the author of sin?”
God is not the author of sin, and far
be it from us to even imagine such wickedness. For He is holy and pure, a light
and there is no darkness in Him. But although He is not the author of sin, which would imply that He
finds pleasure in it and commits sin, He is the ultimate Cause of all things
and, therefore, also of the fact of
sin. This distinction, then, must be made, that not God but man is the author
of sin. In His counsel God wills the fact of sin, in order that it might reveal
His righteousness. Besides, it must not be forgotten, that God makes sin and
the wicked subservient to the purpose of leading His elect to the highest glory
of the heavenly Kingdom. (Herman
Hoeksema, “The Protestant Reformed Churches in America” [1947], p. 351)
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