In the jewish, christian & islam relig.s, the holy books state that God has created Angels to be the obedient creatures & to represent the good & kind values in life ... and created the devil (or turned him into a devil in islam) when he refused God's orders to be a representative of evil ... and made humans what they are to represent the mixture between the two main ingredients in life (good & evil) on the basis of that a human that will encourage his good side over his evil side will be rewarded by entering God's heaven ... and on the other hand ... a human that will take the evil path in life will end up in Hell ... knowing that when the devil refused to obey God's orders was damned for eternity ... he asked God to give him time to prove that humans were unworthy of being created by LEADING THEM TO THE EVIL PATH in life and thus proving his point of view, the question is:
If the devil was the 1st evil creature in God's kingdom ... who lead him to the sin of disobeying God's orders?
2006-06-26 09:39:03 · 6 answers · asked by bluemoonpanther 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Was not there so I do not know.
Get on you knees and ask God.
Face Mecca and ask Allah.
They are wiser than I am, and you will have to accept them at their word with your faith, and I do not believe you have faith in anyone's word that you will find here on Y'Answers.
2006-06-26 09:44:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God didn't necessarily create angels to be perfect seeing as the devil is the fallen angel, Lucifer. Humans were not made to be a mixture of good and evil we were made to be good but still free thinkers which is taken advantage of. When Adam and Eve were created there was no shame and no sin; it wasn't until the devil came and introduced the idea that they began to sin. Humans generally take the bad path because they are convinced that there is no afterlife or that evil can overpower good.
The devil didn't lead them to the evil path he ruined their lives to test their faith as in the book of Job.
I guess the devil was just the first to sin...there is a balance in life after all.
2006-06-26 16:51:29 · answer #2 · answered by Rachel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, that's a lot of stuff!
Well, every being except the angels really have free will. Angels are just created to obey Allah without question and without free will. Jinns and humans have free will, and Iblees (or the devil) had free will because he was a jinn. He used to be obedient, without question, like the angels until Allah created man, upon which he became jealous/arrogant (and did not prostrate to Adam) so his anger overcame him. And that is why he promised to mislead mankind till the day of judgment.
Humans are not necessarily a mix between good/evil. They are born without sin and since humans are imperfect, they are subject to making mistakes (or committing evil acts,) but Allah can wash them away as if they never existed if a human simply repents with the intention of changing that sin into something good.
I hope that helps! :)
2006-06-26 16:58:10 · answer #3 · answered by Iram 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaiah 14:12-15 (The Message)
The Message (MSG)
Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
12What a comedown this, O Babylon!
Daystar! Son of Dawn!
Flat on your face in the underworld mud,
you, famous for flattening nations!
13-14You said to yourself,
"I'll climb to heaven.
I'll set my throne
over the stars of God.
I'll run the assembly of angels
that meets on sacred Mount Zaphon.
I'll climb to the top of the clouds.
I'll take over as King of the Universe!"
15-17But you didn't make it, did you?
Instead of climbing up, you came down—
Down with the underground dead,
down to the abyss of the Pit.
People will stare and muse:
"Can this be the one
Who terrorized earth and its kingdoms,
turned earth to a moonscape,
Wasted its cities,
shut up his prisoners to a living death?"
Satan became jealous of God, and he wanted to be even greater than Him. Of course, Satan failed.
2006-06-26 16:50:12 · answer #4 · answered by eefen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You answered your own question. The Devil obviously never sinned. Angels don't have free choice.
He is just doing his job in testing us.
We are the ones who choose to do right or wrong.
2006-06-26 16:46:56 · answer #5 · answered by pieman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your assumption is that any time a being is led astray then it must be because another being is leading them astray.
The Bible says that Satan fell when his pride led him astray. James suggests that the same is true for all of us--that temptation begins within us with our prideful desires.
2006-06-26 16:43:35 · answer #6 · answered by tdw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋