Oh, how they twist and turn on the spit when the truth is stated! I did not say God created sin. Nowhere have I ever, EVER, said that. You read, but you do not understand.
I said God created Lucifer, knowing he would rebel, and created him anyway, because that rebellion was necessary to God's Plan. Read that very carefully. Who sinned? Was he forced to sin? Was He ordered to sin? But God knew He would sin, did He not? One of two things is true given those facts: Either God did not want Lucifer to sin, in which case Lucifer upset the apple cart, so to speak, and God had to alter His Plan, OR, God had already planned for Lucifer's sin, and therefore Lucifer, while thinking he was causing God problems, actually established God's Plan. I'd bet my money on "B".
What is that Plan? To allow Rebellion to play out to the end of the line, to show sin for all that it is, and how it is not stronger than God, nor can any rebellion ever succeed. To defeat sin and rebellion utterly and totally, so it never again plagues God's Creation. In order to achieve that end, sin is a tool in God's Hand. He turns the results of sin to do His will, to the Praise of His Glory. The chosen glorify God in His Salvation. The Wicked glorify God in His Justice. In all this, he does not sin, nor is sin chargeable to Him. He utilizes rebellion against Him to ultimately glorify Himself, and to destroy rebellion in the process. That, my friend, is the Omnipotent, Omniscient, Almighty God in action, and it is a wonder to behold!
Oh, now I get it,...God is sortof like John Calvin in the prosecution of Severtus. Just like Calvin accused and prosecuted Servertus for heresy, but Calvin didn't have to obey the law of the day and be arrested himself until the trial was complete, therefore Calvin could never be accused of any intent to murder Severtus by false charge.
Here's a major difference between the Calvinist points I find hypocritical and God's holiness.
He doesn't have to use sin for anything. He's omnipotent and soveriegn. In his just character He righteously judges those who have sinned and by His grace has placed that judgment on the Perfect sacrifice, Jesus Christ.
We agree on many things, but I find an appeal to charge God as the creator of sin to be opposite His character. He has nothing to do with sin as a tool. It might be the case that sinners, in the object of their sin, discover than God is still in charge and nothing of sin overcomes His will,...but that is vastly different than associating sin with His plan.
Sin and evil are the policy of Satan in a counterfeit cosmic system to God's plan.
The more one rejects this idea, the closer one substitutes a satanic system for God's plan.