If God knows everything, why did he make Satan, knowing what would happen?

Question

Yo dudes i touch kids, thats cool right? dudes?

Answer 1

so that you'd ask stupid Q's

dude

Answer 2

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 3

God in His omniscience knew all the evil that would take place before He created anything.

As St. Augustine says, God only allows evil in His creation that He will bring a greater good out of it in the end.

For our virtues are tested only when they encounter the resistance of evil.


St. Paul says somewhere, that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.

That is the thing with the omnipotence of God. It cannot be beat. Although God always forbids sin, when it is committed, He arranges that a greater good occur in the long-run than if the sin were never committed.

For example, Adam's fall was a terrible catastrophe.

But theologians agree that God will bring something far greater in the end than if Adam had never sinned. Christ's act of atonement was much more than sufficient to take care of sin.


With Satan, God allows him to test us, to exercise virtue in us. As we overcome his temptations, we grow in goodness, and merit extra happiness in heaven.

But the devil can only do what God allows, and allows him to test us, not to see us fail, but to improve us.

If one falls under Satan's temptation it is only that one's fault, as he used his free-will to cave to an exercise that was meant for his sanctification.




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Answer 4

Mark-
Excellent, just excellently said.

I am not as intelligent and for the one asking the question:

God knows everything in human terms.

There was nothing to know then, it was just Satan trying to get angels on his side and jealousy took over. He thought why can't I be as powerful, who is he to be the only "one".

Ok breath . . . .

. . . upon such deception, because God the creator is perfect he can see imperfection, Lucifer (once a high angel) was cast out of heaven. . . . . and then it began . .. . . . God created humans and loved them so much that Lucifer, now Satan with his "demons" (once other angels in heaven too) then set out to kill what God loved so much . . . . thus the deception . . . . . thus the apple and their eyes were open to death when they were made perfect in his image and were't aware of death.

Jesus was sent to save us because God loved us, he gave us a way out of the evil we brought upon ourselves.

He is still giving anyone a chance, just receive him, thats it!!!

Answer 5

Probably for the same reason He made you, knowing you would do nothing but ridicule and mock Him. I see your Q&A's all the time here. You are only here to bash God and anyone that believes in Him. And now comes TARA, just another godless prostitute-like female that wants all the guys to know what a s.l.u.t she is. But she doesn't seem to care that children of all ages use this site, and don't need to read the words of a whore on a religious page. You are no different than her, just here to stir ****.

Answer 6

Because everything needs an oppisite, it's hard to explain, but imagine if evil didn't exist, there would still be punishment because no one's perfect. If a child spilled her milk, it doesn't seem so bad now, but if evil didn't exist, what would her mother to compare her to? The child would get severely punished. If someone parked in a handicap zone by mistake, they might get sent to prison, if someone accidently killed someone, they would experience an awful, awful punishment, like...I don't know getting burned at the stake. The point is we have Satan, so we know the difference between good and evil, what else would we have if he never existed? Good and slightly less good?

Answer 7

Just like he has the power to know everything he also has the power to no know everything. He has given everyone the power of choice....that includes his heavenly creatures.... If you read the bible Satan was actually the highest in command out of all the other angels up there with him...........But we all know how that turned out and trust me he knew.....but he also knew that "satan" could have had a change of heart.....IT ALL COMES DOWN TO CHOICE...

Answer 8

Discretion, my friend, discretion. It is true that God knows everything and he can know things in advance. But, there are things that God DECIDES /CHOOSE not to exercise his foreknowledge, such as in the case of his intelligent creatures. Why is this so? He created them perfect and w/ free will. If he choose to know in advance what they would do, and prevent them from doing those that are bad, then he did not really give us free will, did he?

Satan was a perfect angel. And, God did not cast doubt on him--just like a father who trusts his sons.

Answer 9

Satan is still loyal to G-d.

Imagine this: You are a martial artist and wish to become excellent. You lay in your bed and never move. Will you become excellent? No. Your muscles will atrophy. So you get up and learn kata/forms/patterns. Will you get excellent? No, you'll have memorized some moves but never applied them. You NEED a sparring partner.

If our spirit was never challenged, it would never grow. Growth requires adversity. Satan is the spiritual adversary. Like a sparing partner, he is NOT out to destroy, he is out to build up and fulfill G-d's task for him. In the end of times, when all (ALL) returns to G-d, he too will return.

Answer 10

Satan is an expression in Free Will. The " Anti-Christ " if you will. Following Satan takes you away from Salvation. be mindful of your choices.

Answer 11

first , u should know that god is wise , 2nd It is test for us "humans" , and then the evil goes to hell , the good will be in heaven.