God didn't create the Devil?

Question

So, God created the angel Lucifer, Lucifer turned himself into the Devil, but all-knowing God never knew that would happen, right?

Why does this invented all-knowing-thingy always have limits?
Or is God all-knowing, and that implies that He wanted hate, starvation, murder, rape, etc, etc in this world?

Answer 1

The devil is a christian invention with no basis in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Answer 2

If God is such a know it all, why bother creating Satan? It'd be like if I created a robot with free will that I knew would go haywire (in the future) and kill people, even though I didn't want or intend that result. Would you still say that I wasn't at fault. Would you still say that I did a good thing in giving my robot free will, knowing that it would hurt other people?

Also, that Albert Einstein story is an urban legend. Besides, if we consider evil like we do cold or darkness... then you could say, conversely, that good acts simply lack in evil. Thus, you could argue that there is no good, simply a lack of evil. See how silly that is when you flip it around?

Answer 3

I'm going to assume that you truly are ignorant of the answer and not just making noise.

God created Satan with a free will. Satan chose to rebel from God's ways. He did not "turn himself into the Devil". He is as he was, only now He strives against man to turn man against God.

"Misery loves company."

God created man with a free will. Man chose to rebel from God's ways. All of the earth's pains, "hate, starvation, murder, rape", are man's creations, not God's.

Want to see the REAL problem here? Look in the mirror.

Answer 4

A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning
challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything
that
exists?"

A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"

"God created everything?" The professor asked.

"Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created
evil.
And, since evil exists, & according to the principle that our works
define
who we are, then we can assume God is evil."

The student became quiet & did not respond to the professor's
hypothetical
definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the
students that he had proven once more that the religious faith was a
myth.

Another student raised his hand & said, "May I ask you a question,
professor?"

"Of course," replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never
been
cold?"

The other students snickered at the young man's question. The young man
replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of
physics,what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat.
Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits
energy, & heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy.
Absolute zero (-460F) is the total absence of heat; & all matter
becomes
inert & incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist.
We
have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied , "Once again you are wrong, darkness does not
exist
either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can
study,
but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white
light
into many colors & study the various wave lengths of each color. You
cannot
measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of
darkness
& illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is?
You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct?
Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is
no
light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already
said.
We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's inhumanity to
man.
It is in the multitude of crime & violence everywhere in the world.
These
manifestations are nothing else but evil.

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it
doesnot exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is
just
like darkness & cold, a word that man has created to describe the
absence
of God.
God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man
does
not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes
when there is no heat, or the darkness
that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The student's name--Albert Einstein A true story.

Answer 5

I think otherwise.....whether HE wanted hate, starvation, murder, etc. in this world is not his concerned as these evils were made by man himself by his own deeds. The Lord who is full of unlimited knowledge, riches, strength, fame, beauty and renunciation. He is always satisfied in Himself, undisturbed by sinful or even pious activities of His creations. He does not create a particular situation for any living entity, but the living entity, bewildered by ignorance, desires to be put into certain conditions of life, and thereby his chain of action and reaction begins. Its true that a living entity is, by superior nature, full of knowledge. Nevertheless, he is prone to be influenced by ignorane due to his limited power. The God is omnipotent, but we - the living entity is not.

And so when the living entity is bewildered in his desires, the God allows him to fulfill those desires, but the God is never responsible for the ations and reactions of the particular situation which may be desired. Therefore, the embodied soul identifies himself with the circumstantial material body and becomes subjected to the temporary misery and happiness of life.

So...in this way it must be turned out that even if God is all-knowing as you said, those among us who are responsible for the World Today......there is Lucifer among us even at this very moment....and we are witnessing him.

Answer 6

If it is not God's will for people to die, why does He allow it to happen? If it is Satan doing the dirty work, why does God not stop him? Have things gone beyond God's control?

God could have destroyed Satan. He could have destroyed Adam and Eve and started over. If He had done this, however, He would have been ruling from the standpoint of force, rather than love. In order for love to flourish, it must operate on the principle of freedom of choice. Without freedom to choose there would be no such thing as real love. We would simply be robots. God could let us keep the gift of freedom, however, and let us see the reasons for making the right choice by allowing sin to run its course.

Answer 7

Religion started when a few ignorant and primitive men looked at the world as it was and then built a religion around it, inventing fairy tales and folklore by which they could attribute all things to the divine intervention of the god they created. All mythology has always done the same.

Answer 8

the point is that God is love.
I believe that God is almighty, and He knows what will be in the future.
God didn't create eveil, but he gave a freedom to angels and ppl.
So they are free to love Him or not.
if God knew what will happen, y he still created devil. i read the answer somewhere that if he wouldn't create 'cause he will become Devil, then God's love, glory will be less (defeated by) evil.

Answer 9

God is omniscient, all knowing, but that does not make Him responsible for His creatures rebelling against Him. Satan created evil and man has followed in Satan's footsteps. You can't blame God for that. They made their own choices. God created His creatures with a free will or volition or else they would just be robots doing His bidding. God wants His creatures to voluntarily love and obey. He cannot be blamed if they don't.

Answer 10

God didnt make the devil he made an angel and the angel turned into Satan