As a pastor, I find this awareness of Satan’s authority to be extremely helpful in responding to those who wrestle with questions about how God can be simultaneously good and in control of a world in which there is evil. While being sovereign, God is not fully in control of this world. Satan controls the world—for now. God was sovereign during the Holocaust. That is a disturbing paradox for a Christian to deal with. God has willingly given freedom to humans to do the destructive things they do. The truth remains that this is a world ruled by powers of darkness and oppression at present until
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