Well I think we already established that we differ in our definitions. You believe calamity and sin are the same thing. I believe there is a difference between the two.
Sin involves the disobedience to or violation of God's commandments. God can't disobey himself (I was speaking of paradoxes earlier) thus God can't really commit sin.
If God allows Satan to throw a roof on Job's family it is considered calamity, which you already indicated serves a higher purpose. If I were to throw a roof on Job's family I am in violation of sin & wickedness. Therein lies the difference.
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I have never suggested that God can sin, where did you get that idea from ???
God is spirit , sin is material ... the material world is divided [by Jesus] into sinners and saints and so it not peaceful, the spirit is one in God, undivided ...
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then [at death] shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
All spirit is from God then, whether it manifests as good or evil in the world...
an evil spirit from God is only seen as evil by men because it causes harm in the material sense... one cannot harm the spirit because it is God's and always simply returns to Him ..
Men ca and wil see what God does as evil , notably when He destroys tis earth and heavnes and kills billions of people , but they will have a different view of that in the end when they see what it brings about , when God baptises all men [Joel 2:28] to know all His truth [John 16:13] at last ... clearly that hasnb't yet happened and nor does scripture say it will happen in this life to most men, but in the next life... so most men cannot be righteous in this earth, they simply do not know how to utangle Satan's wily temptations because God has not instructed all men yet in how... and we learn to ignore our consciences and follow the world instead because adults taech children to do so ,begining immediately they enter the world... people corrupt their own children to the normal evils of our world without even knowing they are doing so ...
here is one example of a widespread evil tauht by men to almost all men, which most accept everyday and never get to understand :-
http://tinyurl.com/2uoexg
God is not DOING this evil, but He does create it in the world, and all men will come to suffer from it [even those who made millions off other people by it, and run our countries in evil manner by means of it]
God is not evil for creating this evil, He is simply showing that unloving ways like this fail men devastatingly in the end , whilst we thought we could live with them ...
Thus the failure of the ways of this world shows the worthiness of God, that what He has commanded, love, is the only way to eternity ... sinners cannot get into heaven by any means except becoming saints , ceasing to sin... it is just as important to God to show that there is no other way, through Satan, as it is to show that love is a way through Jesus... the two together are necessary then for the fullglorying of all creation in God in the end, prophesied by .... well, God !
... else God would not be God if there were any other, evil. way in eterniity as many 'christians' who are sinners ,teach in mainline religion of this perverted world ...
again men do not most seem to notice that divided religion MUST be preverted from the truth, God's truth is not divided, men's beliefs as sinners are divided right down to individual level ... that shows that religion is the instrument of Satan in this world simply by understanding that God is not divided in His truth...
We come back then to God's statements in scripture , quoted above, that he craetes all things and thus creates evil ... but God is not evil for doing that , nor could be , it is simply the only way for creation to show that His way of love is the ONLY way, by letting men try other ways under Satan as their lord ... thus one could know that Satan is the lord of all sinners, Jesus is the lord of those who depart from sin , the saints of this world and of the next world., the few first, the many afterward [Rev 7:3-10]
few find the straight narrow way in this evil world, many then must find the way after death and the second resurrection ... it is what God says and one can rely on His word, one will have to do so evenetually or end up in the final trial, the lake of 'fire' from God upon the earth...
Matthew 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and
few there be that find it.
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo,
a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands
There are two great periods of redemption to spirit the, one lesser one at |Jesus' return , one massive one after this for sinners of this earth... but sinners cannot be resurrected from death until the second resurrection [of the unjust] ...
God then is God to all creation in the end , Satan loses all his following in this earth, all sinners become saints eventually by accepting Jesus as Lord and obeying him at last, following his commandment as Lord to love, not sin any more ... then he is really their lord rather than just people saying it ...
So God shows that He is worthy as the god of all creation, and indeed must do so to be worthy... God's own name then depends on the eventual redemption of all craeted beings, and even Satan was created :-
Ezekiel 28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that
thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Ezekiel 28:9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but
thou shalt be a man, and
no god, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
[c.f. 2Thess 2:4]
Revelation 5:13 And,
every created thing which was in heaven, and upon the earth, and under the earth, and upon the sea, and, all the things in them, heard I, saying—Unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the dominion, unto the ages of ages!
This then IS the glory of God, that ALL creation must come to accept Him as their god in the end, but He must do this by means of love , not by any other way, else He is not the God of love...
But men will misunderstand because men must suffer when God allows evil to fall on both the just and the unjust for this end purpose of showing not only that love works, through Jesus, but that evil dails, through Satan... BOTH are essentil to the glor of God, Satan must accept Jesus as Lord in the end , as Jesus says he will [above quote] , else God has failed , which seems more than unlikely ...
As for your sequence about Job's roof .... God could have stopped Satan , but requires Satan to come to accept that His ways don't work, don't make him a god... God gave him all truth, he was created perfect , but still then he needs to act on that truth and cannot do so until he finds out that all hs devised unloving ways don't work as he had hoped they would... thus God allows evil on men that He could stop , were it not that he has a purpose in the demonstration that evil does not work, the redemption of all creation in the end...
Thus God craeted evil for His own good purpose, not to prevent men suffering, but guaranteeing that all men, just and unjust WILL suffer from evil that He created , for sake of His glory in the end as the one and only true god of all creation ...