evil springs from evil character made up of evil dispositions. This is Sproul’s (and other Calvinists’) attempt to avoid making God the author of evil because God is said to foreordain and render certain actions while the evil of them flows from the finite actors’ sinful desires. God’s motive in foreordaining and rendering certain the sin is morally pure, and he does not coerce anyone to sin. Thus, God is said merely to permit the sin or evil action while at the same time rendering it certain.
