Claim. God’s compulsion to hear and acknowledge Satan’s accusations is not weakness but the consequence of His identity as the unchanging Author of the universe — dismissing Satan would require God to change, which would unmake Him as the Absolute Being.
Elaboration. SMM reconstructs the exchange repeatedly. Satan’s argument: “You are the eternal and immortal Subject Being… You, like Your laws and principle, cannot change… Though I fell, You must follow that principle” (4.2.-god-abides-by-the-law, 129-215, 1983.11.5). God’s answer, in SMM’s telling: “You are right” (ibid, 191-244, 1989.6.25).
The word “right” carries the whole weight. God’s correctness on Satan’s point is what traps Him: “God must maintain that principle, even if there are violators. Therefore, for the sake of restoring the fallen universe, God had to unceasingly maintain the original standard… Without doing so, He cannot regain His authority as the Absolute Being. This has been so frustrating for Him” (ibid, 210-229, 1990.12.23).
This extends csg-gods-omnipotence-operates-within-principle to a more painful case: not just that God won’t act arbitrarily, but that He must acknowledge the legal force of an argument made by His own enemy against His own children. The constraint is real but self-authored — God is, in a precise sense, caught by His own integrity.
The Book of Job is cited as evidence: “God gave Satan all he asked for. Why? God cannot respond to Satan with the same behavior as the devil because God is the essence of love for others” (ibid, 144-161, 1986.4.12).
See also. csg-satan-accusation-rights-basis, csg-god-cannot-punish-satan-unilaterally