When God created satan as an Angel, why did he not foresee that he would create this mess we have now.?

Question

*Was it not easier to destroy him for ever?

Answer 1

Your question pre-supposes a belief in God, a belief that God is omniscient (all-knowing), and a belief that God created Lucifer as an Angel, and that Lucifer then turned his back on God and was cast into Hell, becoming the devil, Satan. It also pre-supposes that the "mess" we have now is Satan's fault.
I will address your question within the confines of these presuppositions, but I do not concede that any of them are factually accurate.
If God exists and is omniscient, then He would have known since before the beginning of time (assuming God is also omnipresent, as Christianity would have us believe) that he would create Lucifer, and that Lucifer would turn his back on him. He would also have known from the beginning what the negative consequences of that act would be for mankind. Therefore, assuming that God is also benevolent, he would have a good reason for continuing to engage in this action. Perhaps the reason is to teach humanity a lesson about free will.
As an interesting side note, the story of Lucifer being kicked out of Heaven has been altered significantly over the last several thousand years. Originally, the story was from ancient Sumeria, and involved not angels, but gods. According to the original story, some of the lesser Sumerian gods took human wives, and had hybrid offspring with them. This angered the ruling Gods, who punished the offending gods by exiling them, and punished man with the Great Flood. This 6000 year old story was adopted by the Hebrews 5000 years ago. The Hebrews changed the names of the gods to Yaweh. You can still read part of the story in Genesis 6:4-7 -- "There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men, who bore children to them. These were the mighty men wehre were of old, the men of renown. When the Lord saw that the wickedness of man on the earth was great, and that man's every thought and all the inclination of his heart were only evil, he regretted that he had made man on the earth and was grieved to the heart. The the Lord said, "I will wipe from the earth man whom I have created..." Some of the more ligustically accurate Bibles still actually use the word "Nephilim" in the story, instead of "sons of God." Nephilim were the rank-and-file Sumerian gods.
It was only much later that Christianity changed the story, yet again, to allege that Lucifer was kicked out of Heaven for refusing to worship the God the Son.
As for your second question, "Was it not easier to destroy him forever?" We all must choose between what is easy, and what is right. Maybe that's another lesson from this story.

Answer 2

As God told Job," Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?" Our finite minds cannot come close to understanding even a fragmented portion of an infinite beings reasoning.
Even without Satan, humankind has done enough to wreck their relationship with God.
I would suggest not focusing on what's wrong with God, and taking care of what's wrong with yourself!

Answer 3

For one thing, God DID forsee.
Maybe He created Satan so that Satan could become a serpent and tempt Adam and Eve, giving them a choice so that we aren't just puppets in God's hands.
Just a thought.

Answer 4

In my opinion, though we may never really know the answer in this life, God is a creator and His medium is Life. When He sets a creation in motion He allows it to play itself out to the very end of it's completion. We may just see parts of it and not understand what is being done, but in the end we can be sure it will be a masterpiece. Different things are mixed together to get different results, just as a painter mixes colors. His pallet is unlimited.

Answer 5

In those times Satan was an angel.

Answer 6

If Lucifer, or all of us, had loose will, then no god could be all-understanding. An all understanding god could comprehend the entire way forward for the universe good from its beginning up. with the aid of fact the universe is thoroughly knowable, it truly is thoroughly predictable. because it truly is thoroughly predictable, it could in user-friendly terms ensue one way, with out techniques. with the aid of fact of this there is no loose will, as all outcomes are desperate good from the beginning up. So if Lucifer had loose will, then god won't be able to be all-understanding. If god is all-understanding, then he knew Lucifer's strikes formerly they took place, so Lucifer had no truly loose will to alter that. If god have been all-powerful, then he ought to create uncertainty, for this reason randomness that should enable loose-will, yet then he ought to no longer be omniscient. even however, one in all those god ought to no longer rigidity an consequence of a random journey, thereby contradicting omnipotence. Omniscience and loose-will are contradictory. Omniscience and omnipotence are contradictory. Omnipotence is contradictory with itself.

Answer 7

We (mankind) created this mess we have now. Satan just makes it somewhat easier for us, for example putting sinful thoughts into our minds that we may not have thought of.

Answer 8

Actually the mess we have now was created by mankind.

God and Satan were also created by mankind.

Answer 9

He did know. It was easier. It still is. Someone once said,

" A god that is understood, is no god. "

It is also, a mystery.

Since you went as far as to glean this much, why not consult that same source you got this out of? It's a beautiful truth. Continue!

Answer 10

He did foresee it. There has to be a balance of good and evil. You are the one with free will. The choice was always yours to make.