I like what Bavinck says. I would also add what James has to say:
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12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
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What bothers me about people who want to be philosophically "tight" in certain cases is that they always want to push exactly where God says not to. It has been the case, since the Garden, that when man fell he blamed the woman who blamed the serpent. Of course, I suppose Adam could have used his profound philosophical insight to remind God that He knew all things at that point and that, after all, their fall was really
His fault.
To me, I don't require the full answer of how it is resolved but I know this: I sin based on
my own desires and, when I sin, it is further sin to call God the author of that sin even in attributing temptation to Him. The Reformed Confessions are unanimous that the Scriptures teach the following:
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Chapter III
Of God's Eternal Decree
I. God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeable ordain whatsoever comes to pass;1 yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin,2nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.3
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