“I don’t think God was running this show; Satan was.”
God allowed it. Satan can’t move without God’s approval. What Satan meant for evil, God, I believe, used it to show His people something....what is to come.
@ 34 ‘For the win.’
‘Satan can’t move without God’s approval.’
which makes God, having the power to undo the evil and being disinclined to do so in order to prove a point, the less righteous of the two on balance...
Yes. God permitted it. Some day we’ll know why.