The Devil, as "the father of lies,” always hates the truth. Yet, he does not always oppose it by the same methods. If he fails to succeed as a "roaring lion" he may appear as an "angel of light," suggesting that surely a God of love will not condemn Christ rejecting men forever.

I note that the "slanderer" has recently resurrected some of his old lies, which may go like this as he misuses Scripture to deceive men.

Sinners, he will contend, are not responsible for their sins anyway. He may misuse Scripture out of context, such as for Eph. 1:11 teaching that “[God] worketh all things after the counsel of His own will.” The insinuation and lie is that God Himself is supposed to have conceived the idea of sin as “a gracious means to a glorious end,” and to have caused man to fall into sin so that He might finally save him from it!

Why an almighty, all-wise, all-loving God permitted sin to enter the universe must, for the time being, may seem as an impenetrable mystery to us but it is explainable. Its answer is too involved to deal with in this short article. Suffice is to say; God is not the author of sin, and never accepts the responsibility for it — except that in grace and love He Himself bore sin's penalty for man in the person of Jesus the Christ.

God calls sinners “children of disobedience” and “children of wrath” (Eph. 2:2-3), explaining in the clearest language that He hates sin and that His anger is kindled against it (Rom. 1:18; Eph. 5:6; John 3:36).

The lie is that if God meant man to sin and caused him to sin, how was man disobedient and what cause could God have to be angry? Those who would shift the responsibility for sin from themselves to God should remember that God has proclaimed His standards of righteousness in the Law so “that every mouth may be stopped and that all the world may be brought in guilty before God” (Rom. 3:19).

The resurrected lies include an old one, asserting the idea that all mankind will finally be saved may at first sound like wonderful grace, but actually there is not one particle of grace in it. This is based on the erroneous theory that... since God got us into sin it is only just that He save us from its penalty.

But grace is God’s mercy and kindness to the undeserving.

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)

In Eph. 2, after calling sinners “children of disobedience” and therefore “children of wrath,” the Apostle Paul goes on to say:

“BUT GOD, who is RICH IN MERCY, for His GREAT LOVE wherewith he loved us… hath quickened us… raised us up… and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus; that in the ages to come He might show THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE IN HIS KINDNESS TOWARD US THROUGH CHRIST JESUS” (Eph. 2:4-7).