Ok, why did God create Satan in the first place?

Question

God is all powerful and all knowing. He knew when he created Satan what would happen.

Answer 1

Actually george p is correct in a way.....he created Satan (if you want to use the term "created") to have a partner...see man could not evolve without temptation..so there had to be a good and a bad to make man to decide and give up certain vices. This may be too serious of an answer for you but you did put it in this category...please do not let a person just using this for fun and ridicule answer this and get a huge thumbs up. You do not have to believe in what I have answered but you do have to understand I believe it.

Answer 2

Some may ask: 'If God is the good and loving Creator, how could he create a wicked spirit creature like Satan?' The Bible lays down the principle that all of Jehovah God's works are perfect and that all of his intelligent creatures are endowed with free will. (Deuteronomy 30:19; 32:4; Joshua 24:15; 1 Kings 18:21) The spirit person who became Satan must, therefore, have been created perfect and must have deviated from the way of truth and righteousness by deliberate choice.—John 8:44; James 1:14, 15

Answer 3

That's like blaming parents if their child becomes a murderer. The main thing your forgetting is free will. God made His crreatures perfect and what they did afterwards was of their own decision.
A prophecy against the King of tyre in the book of Ezekiel 28; 13 - 19 describes a marvelous cherub in the garden of Eden that became haughty cause of his abilities.
It's true that God could have destroyed Satan when the first sin happened, but then all the other angels might have wondered if Satan was right about God's way not being in their best interest. So He allowed Satan time to prove his point, even allowing him to persecute rightous people on earth, such as Job. Proverbs 27; 11 says " Be wise my son and make my heart rejoice, that I may make a reply to the one who is taunting me>"

Answer 4

Because he was bored and wanted drama to ensue. Satan is THE biggest loophole in Christianity >.< i mean Satan was left to do as he pleased because God wanted mankinds faith tested yeah? I mean what the heck?! If Satan was never created there would be no sin in the first place,peoples faith wouldnt be questioned at all. Stupid,stupid stupid. Why does God supposedly need Angels anyway if he can do everything by himself and is all knowing and powerful? Just seems like an embelishment of an already flawed story. Its not like he would get lonely or need help,a God,by their very definition is above all that

Answer 5

In the book of Job the character of Satan seems to be a position in God's court who had a particular job to do. In other words, it was a position and not necessarily a person. In Job, the Satan, is the accuser, the person responsible for arguing the counter point and in doing so keeping God honest and consistent. Other parts of the scripture seem to pit the two against each other but in Job Satan is an important part of how God rules the creation.

Answer 6

He first created an angelic being that glorified God. Satan became satan after his rebellion but God does know what's going to happen, it's all apart of The Plan. The plan that we don't fully understand but it has to do with having us to have fellowship with, setting up the garden to have Adam and Eve go against God's law not to touch or eat of the knowledge of the tree of Good and Evil, to bring about redemtpion...... the rest you will find out at judgement day.

Answer 7

In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.

The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of Gods plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.

Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.

Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.

Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It’s meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 8

As well as creating physical creatures (humans) to reflect His image, God created spirit creatures (angels) to reflect His image as well. Both types were given free will, and none were predestined to become bad, however Satan (which means 'Opposer') the Devil (which means Slanderer), convinced Adam and Eve that like he, they could do without Gods guidence and choose for themselves what was good and bad (Genesis 3:1-7). Being a spirit creatures means that he is able to hide behind other physical beings and act, the same way that he did by using the snake (because of it being a slow moving 'cautious' creature). Over the course of time and until he was kicked out of heaven, he was able to convinced one third of the other angels (Revelations 12:3'4) to follow him in opposition to God, and they now influence the way the world is governed and either decieve people (Revelations 12:9, 2 Corinthians 4:3,4) into killing in the name of God, believing that there is no God, or worshiping God in a false way by creating and bowing down to saints and idols in the form of crosses etc(Exodus 20:4).
What Jesus did was to show us how to act in order to gain life (John 17:3, Ephesians 5:17). As we can see by the example that God let Satan, Adam and Eve set, that following our own will brings the world we have today and death (Genesis 2:16,17). Whereas Jesus who was God's son (John 3:16), gave us the example in that we need to find out and follow Gods will, and not our own, even unto death (Luke 22:42, 1 Corinthians 10:13).

Answer 9

God did not create Satan. He created Lucifer, a glorious being of beauty and light. Lucifer, by the decision of his own free will, rebelled against God, thereby changing himself into something opposite to God's creation, something evil and ugly. That was the origin of Satan.

Answer 10

God didn't create Satan. Christians and Jews did.