A Letter to a Retired Chaplain About: Evil and War

Dear F. L. R.: Although Satan was instrumental in bringing so many afflictions, including the greatest of all evils, death, upon Job, yet he recognized it all as the work of the Lord.  He said, “shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil?” (2:10).  But it is more than hasty to conclude that our (Reformed) interpretation either excuses Satan, by virtue of his having some association (relation) to God, or that it makes God the responsible doer of the evil.  The...