If man was led into temptation by the serpent, then who led Lucifer into sin in the first place?

Question

What is the origin of evil? Could it be that God was Lucifer’s serpent? If Lucifer turned evil on his own, then he was as powerful as God to give into something that God never meant to exist. Or God made him part evil to be able to choose, so God was the first to plant evil into someone and triggered a reaction.

Answer 1

Deep subject, whether you believe in Lucifer or not. There are logical fallacies involved. Read Bertrand Russell, and C. S. Lewis, for a start. There are literally hundreds of treatments of this question.

Answer 2

Dearest reader,
Lucifer was the most beautiful, intelligent angel at creation. He wanted to be God himself (envy) and so when he tried to, God threw him out of heaven. He took many other rebellious angels with him, and they are his demons (evil spirits) here on earth.
Find a Bible with a concordance at the back and look all this up in scripture. That's why Satan is an angel of light and so smart, deceptive, and the Father of Lies. God created him and he, like us, had a choice to make in serving God or rebelling against him.
But one day (Revelation) the old serpent will be thrown into the lake of fire for eternal damnation, with his evil spirits, and those that do not claim that Christ is the Saviour of the World (particularly First John). Great question, not many people have thought about it to even ask.
Oh, God is incapable of evil - He is holy. His name was so holy in the Old Testament that people couldn't even speak it, as it was written without vowels...Yhwy. He called Himself that to Moses in Exodus. Christ is also sinless, but we can be holy and righteous through Christ...altho never completely sinless.
God Bless in your search for answers,
Darcel

Answer 3

The word "Lucifer" in Isaiah 14:12 presents a minor problem to mainstream Christianity. It becomes a much larger problem to Bible literalists, and becomes a huge obstacle for the claims of Mormonism. John J. Robinson in A Pilgrim's Path, pp. 47-48 explains:

"Lucifer makes his appearance in the fourteenth chapter of the Old Testament book of Isaiah, at the twelfth verse, and nowhere else: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"

The first problem is that Lucifer is a Latin name. So how did it find its way into a Hebrew manuscript, written before there was a Roman language? To find the answer, I consulted a scholar at the library of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. What Hebrew name, I asked, was Satan given in this chapter of Isaiah, which describes the angel who fell to become the ruler of hell?


Christian's are sooooooooo misled by the clergy! Read the dang book and figure it out for yourself!

Answer 4

Isaiah 14:12-14 "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how thou art cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."

Lucifer,the Angel of Light, (later called Satan) that covered the throne of God, who was the most beautiful Angel that God had created got too full of PRIDE and thought in his own mind that he should be above God.

The origin of evil is plain to see...PRIDE. Be careful not to make the same mistake.

The Bible does say "professing themselves to be wise, they became as fools." I think what you are trying to say, that God created evil, in order to convince people...either 1. God is evil 2. God does not exist 3. God is not all powerful . or 4. God is cruel and unfair. Let me tell you, God is Holy. God Is real. God is all-powerful. God is just....refer to #1, he is just because he is Holy. God created everything and everybody...including you, for his good pleasure, like it or not. It really doesn't matter what you like or what you believe, it's still the truth. Get over it, and start searching for truth instead of trying to prove the one that created you does not exist.

Swamiij1 God created man in His own image, with free will in tact, the angels, including Prideful Lucifer, also have free will, the ability to sin or not. If that is too big a concept to understand, don't feel aloneGod is smarter than all of us, not just you....there may be some thins we just don't completely understand until we are in Heaven....but I do not understand Nuclear Science, but that doesn't mean Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fictional. Come on, do not fall into tha trap of Satan...Pride, just cause you can't explain something, doesn't mean it does not exist. The responses to THIS question are very amusing to me, since Lucifer fell because of his Pride and several here exhibit the same characteristic...ouch.

Answer 5

When Lucifer was an angel, he was one of God's most beloved. God had given him extraordinary strengths and gifts.

What made him turn was his own freewill. Because God did give his angels freewill.

What tempted Lucifer? Well, first, he wasn't God, so he wasn't perfect. He was prone to falling. What he wanted was God's power. What tempted him was something in himself that wanted to be God.

He is not as powerful as God, although he is very powerful. God is omnipotent. Lucifer is not.

God didn't make Lucifer part evil. God made Lucifer free. Freedom carries with it many possibilities.

Answer 6

What a good question...just goes to show you, when you think you've thought of everything (lol) someone comes along with a whole new line of thinking.

As far as the serpent thing goes, Lucifer wasn't changed into a serpent until he was punished by God for tempting Eve.

As far as his sense of evil, I believe it developed from a misplaced sense of pride. And come to think of it, that sense of pride must have been threatened somehow by the creation of man. Jealousy?

Thank you for the new concept to ponder.

Answer 7

the question is still unanswered: did God want evil in the universe? either He wanted it, being omnipotent, and gave angels a choice to go that route or He didn't, He's not omnipotent, and good ole' Lucy made it up himself, making him as powerful as God. if He did want it, that tells us God was the original creator of evil. for all those that make claims of "free will", that's nice but you still haven't answered the question. only an omnipotent God either could have created evil as a choice or an alternative or have allowed it to exist. therefore, if God is omnipotent, he must also be the origin of evil. if God had no control over the existence of evil, and evil was there as a choice for Satan or man to choose, then He's not omnipotent

Answer 8

Lucifer chose to go his own way. He was beguiled by himself. God evidently allowed Satan to choose. Choice seems to be very important to God. Why? Perhaps I'll ask Him when I'm in His presence some day. Perhaps this question won't matter at all at that point.

Answer 9

That's a good question. Also, if they weren't supposed to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, why was it there? And also, if they were perfect and sin free, then how were they tempted to go against gods law?
I think this shows that the only way they were perfect, was that they had never seen or heard of sin, making them completely innocent, but they would have sinned or been tempted eventually if it hadn't been the fruit it would've been something else, especially as the population grew.

Answer 10

No one led Lucifer into sin. At the kingdom of Heaven where the Supreme God rules over other gods, including Lucifer who was his trusted man and second in command, became ambitious with his power. He wants to level with God and decided to revolt against Him. The WORD, the Son of the Supreme God, mediated and talked with him not to do his ambitious plan for he knew Lucifer cannot win with the "all in all." But God is a merciful God, he didn't make Lucifer vanished in the oblivion, but rather excommunicated him into the earth. Hence the world became sinful because of him. The origin of evil in the world is Lucifer. The Prince of Light in Heaven became The Prince of Darkness in the world. who led Lucifer into sin? By himself because of greed and ambition to power. God, as a merciful God, gave them free will but with limitation. Limitation of not going against God's will and command. If you over bound, then you should be corrected. Correcting and guiding you by God to return on his Kingdom is not evil. God will not do such thing. Evil will exist to yourself only by the result of your own actions which is contrary to God's commands.