[Missey_Lucy_Goosey]

Do you really think that wickedness can thwart (I love that word)God’s will? Or does God use man’s wickedness to his own purposes?

And, as Marting Luther said of the devil, "Satan is God's Satan", meaning that Satan does nothing and can do nothing without God's prior approval, lest God be unaware of Satan's activities and Satan is of an equal force as God is, in which that puts someone in the corner of the Docetists and Gnostics.

Therein lies the peril of relying more on "tradition" than the Scriptures, when that "tradition" is contradictory to the Scriptures.

[MarkBsnr]

:::And, as Marting Luther said of the devil, “Satan is God’s Satan”, meaning that Satan does nothing and can do nothing without God’s prior approval:::

Are you saying that satan is God’s agent? Are you saying that satan’s tempting and evil in the world is God’s doing?