“”We were created in the image of God, from the beginning. We would have remained as such if not Lucifer had taken a hand, and convinced Eve to disobey God.””
Exactly! God played no part in the Free decision in Satan’s pride or the Free decision in Adam and Eve’s fall
That in God there can be no Evil- From Thomas Aquinas
ESSENTIAL being, and essential goodness, and all other things that bear the name of ‘essential,’ contain no admixture of any foreign element; although a thing that is good may contain something else besides being and goodness, for there is nothing to prevent the subject of one perfection being the subject also of another. Everything is contained within the bounds of its essential idea in such sort as to render it incapable of containing within itself any foreign element. But God is goodness, not merely good. There cannot therefore be in Him anything that is not goodness, and so evil cannot be in Him at all.
3. As God is His own being, nothing can be said of God that signifies participation. If therefore evil could be predicated of Him, the predication would not signify participation, but essence. Now evil cannot be predicated of any being so as to be the essence of any: for to an essentially evil thing there would be wanting being, since being is good.* There cannot be any extraneous admixture in evil, as such, any more than in goodness. Evil therefore cannot be predicated of God.
5. A thing is perfect in so far as it is in actuality: therefore it will be imperfect inasmuch as it is failing in actuality. Evil therefore is either a privation, or includes a privation, or is nothing. But the subject of privation is potentiality; and that cannot be in God: therefore neither can evil.
This truth also Holy Scripture confirms, saying: God is light, and there is no darkness in Him, (I John i, 5) Far from God impiety, and iniquity from the Almighty (Job xxxiv, 10).
“God played no part in the Free decision in Satan’s pride or the Free decision in Adam and Eve’s fall”
Alright, now that we have solved that is there anything else outside of the sovereignty of God?
Amen. And yet God created Satan, who was a "murderer from the beginning."
If God truly didn't want any evil within His creation, He could easily erase Satan from all existence.
And yet He doesn't.
Obviously evil serves a purpose of God, just as heresy serves a purpose...
"For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you." -- 1 Corinthains 11:19
God is all holy and within Him there is no evil. Yet God created Satan and permits Satan to prowl the earth, spewing lies.
Thankfully, by His word we know that...
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him." -- 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10"God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,