Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me--to keep me from exalting myself.It appears that in this instance, God is using Satan on Paul. He has willingly allowed a demon, or directly commanded one, to torment Paul. Why would the demon permit this?
The demon at this point would have to know that it is being used to keep Paul from being able to brag. Yet wouldn't the demon want Paul to brag, and therefore hurt his ministry? Why would the demon go along with this, unless either (1) it's a metaphorical demon, or (2) the demon does not have free will to disobey God's directive.
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