You are looking at it from a human point of view that one human could kill another. But satan is not human and I guess God wasn't going to allow him to kill Job.Very well then.
I fail to see where God setting boundaries takes away anyone's freedom to break those boundaries.
This is reminiscent of the fruit of the tree boundary given to Adam in the garden by an order from God.
He not only had free will to disobey. He did disobey.
By the way - one of the false charges against Calvinists is that their saying that God decreed certain things automatically negates the free will of those involved.
In the case of Calvinism, it is a false charge.
But here, with you, it is absolutely what you are teaching - completely thought through by you or not.
satan is not a human creature. I will not assume that the same things apply to satan as a non human that God has given or applied to us.
It could kind of maybe in some way seem like the garden scenario, but we do not know that God allows human beings and non humans what kinds of free will. I'm not even sure an angel could suffer death at all. The only reason death was an option was because Job was human. I dont think an angel can be destroyed, personally.
I don't like to make assumptions in scripture. I'm pretty strict on that, IMHO.
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