Sorry, I drift on and off. We have lots of company this Easter and I don't get on line too much.
Hey ... enjoy your holiday. I'm not in any rush for an answer.
I'm not sure I follow your question about Jesus and Satan. Just as Eve (and Adam) where tempted in the garden by Satan so was Christ tempted.
I guess I just wondering what this seeming struggle between the Creator Christ and the creature Satan all means in the cosmic drama that Calvinists believe in ?
Was it God's determinate will that Satan attempt to derail Christ from His course ?
Calvinists are not dualists , there is no "competation" between God and Satan . God is sovereign over Satan .Satan can do nothing without the permission of God
Was it God's determinate will that Satan attempt to derail Christ from His course ?
Act 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;
1Pe 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1Pe 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
1Pe 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Happy Easter Quester and Harley
Apparently yes since it occurred. God is always in control. In fact it says:
Mat 4:1 "Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil."
God didn't wait for Satan to come to him. He went to Satan.