Is God the author of sin?

[larryjf]

Just to add my

Charles Hodge seems to ascribe God's place in sin as bare permission (Systematic Theology - Part 1, Chapter 5, Section 9C):

The decretive and preceptive will of God can never be in conflict. God never decrees to do, or to cause others to do, what He forbids. He may, as we see He does, decree to permit what He forbids. He permits men to sin, although sin is forbidden.

A.W. Pink and Calvin appear to denounce the idea of bare permission.

A.W. Pink (The Sovereignty of God - Chapter 8, under question 1):

Should someone respond, Then is God the Author of Sin? We would have to ask, in turn, What is meant by "Author"? Plainly it was God's will that sin should enter this world otherwise it would not have entered, for nothing happens save as God has eternally decreed. Moreover, there was more than a bare permission for God only permits that which He has purposed.

I forget exactly where Calvin speaks against bare permission, but it's in his Institutes of the Christian Religion.

Wouldn't it be an accurate stance to say that God does willfully decree the sin, yet He is at no time the source of the sin and that He does not prescribe sin.