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Thanks for being patient with me. I guess you can tell that I'm concerned with semantics. I have problems with "permission" because it implies that God is passive. Yes, God gave Satan permission but he didn't just give Satan permission. I don't like "knew" because it implies that God wasn't causal. God knew what Satan would do but he didn't simply know what Satan was going to do. "Free" does not serve us well if it implies an independence of our will from God's almighty power. We have a will that is free from our animal instincts (which still influence) and can occasionally (all too rarely) resist temptations. All sin is in vain. Satan himself recognizes that he can do nought but react to God saying: "Stretch forth thy hand...". Atta and his fellow conspirators were sacrificial slaves to their own reprobation and not effective rebels against God. They sowed iniquity, reaped vanity and the rod of their anger failed on Flight 93 because God was glorified mightily in the death of Todd Beamer and he is glorified preciously in the life of Todd's lovely wife. I propose that we subdue secular expressions and definitions with the biblical ones as best we can. The knowledge of the Holy is understanding.