Why did God create Satan?

Question

Being omniscient, God knew Satan would turn out the way he did before creating him in the first place. So why did he create Luficer? Why did he opt to make him anyway knowing he would fall from grace and then torture His children for thousands of years?

Is it because God is a sadist?

Answer 1

So that there is a balance between Good and Evil. Look around you and don't ask why we need this balance.

Answer 2

At 1 time Lucifer was 1 of the most beautiful angle being in the heavens
Satan rebelled against God He wanted to be like him So God threw him out and a third of the other rebellious angles and gave them a dark place called hell

Satan is in competition with GOD for POWER

Answer 3

Satan didn't become Satan until he sinned. God gives us a free will and it's up to use to use it the right way or pay the consequences. I can't find the scripture but it states that when the earth was created all the morning stars or angles rejoiced so that means that at that time all the angels in heaven were free from sin and in union with God. (I think it's in Job....)

God is incapable of being wicked:

Ps. 5:4
For you are not a God taking delight in wickedness;
No one bad may reside for any time with you

Deut. 32:4
The Rock, perfect is his activity,
For all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness, with whom there is no injustice;
Righteous and upright is he.

Answer 4

The answer is not as simple as the simplified Biblical story.

If you look at the Supreme Bible of God and the earliest of texts, you'll see our ancestors viewed the first Gods as evil.
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/final_testament/bible_of_god.htm

For example, look at the Epic of Atrahasis, at least 4500+ years old:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/old_testament/sources/atrahasis/atrahasis_0010.htm

Our ancestors believed we were genetically created by flesh and blood beings, who themselves were banished to Earth as a prison of exile.

They in turn created humans as hybrids both as workers and kind of play things.

When these beings died, they didn't stop torturing humanity, instead they became arch-demons who have been present in all major spiritual literature up until the present day.

Of course, we discount everything about our ancestors as mythology- unless it is in the Bible...

Answer 5

Didn't Christ say he chose twelve and one of you is a devil?
John 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
God is righteous in all things but is all knowing.

Answer 6

There are some people who use the presence of suffering and evil in this world as grounds to lose hope and perhaps even to reject God. However, according to the Final Book, the limited free will and reason of human beings destroys that argument. We are responsible for what we do, and must bear the consequences - that is the liability or price of freedom. The evil that we do and suffer from is chosen by us and not by God,


"...God wills no wrong to His creation." [3:108]

However, God also guarantees us that aside from our own evil actions and their effects, God Himself will put us through some trials and tribulations here on earth - but the key is they will never be more than we can handle, and they may even be good for us,


"If misfortune touches you [know that] similar misfortune has touched [other] people as well; for it is by turns that We apportion unto men such days [of fortune and misfortune]: and [this] to the end that God might mark out those who have attained to faith, and choose from among you such as [with their lives] bear witness to the truth - since God does not love evildoers - and that God might render pure of all dross those who have attained to faith, and bring to nought those who deny the truth. Do you think that you could enter Paradise unless God takes cognizance of your having striven hard [in His cause], and takes cognizance of your being patient in adversity?" [3:140-142]
"God does not burden any human being with more than he is well able to bear: in his favour shall be whatever good he does, and against him whatever evil he does..." [2:286]


An integral part of our being aware of God is hope and patience in times of hardship. In fact, the loss of hope is actually one of the symptoms of rejection of God,


"[Prophet Abraham] exclaimed, `And who - other than those who have utterly lost their way - could ever abandon the hope of his Sustainer's grace?'" [15:56]

The greatest source of hope is that God shall allow those people who accept Him to enter Paradise and, more importantly, to be close to Him. The Final Book contains many references on Paradise, and also on Hell, the destination of those people who knowingly reject God. Paradise is quite literally a place of indescribable joy, whereas Hell is its indescribable opposite (both places are given only partial descriptions in the Book). While the inhabitants of Paradise are permanent dwellers, the inmates of Hell are not necessarily imprisoned there forever; there are some who shall ultimately be freed,


"[But] verily, as for those who attain to faith and do righteous deeds - the gardens of Paradise will be there to welcome them; therein will they abide, [and] never will they desire any change therefrom." [18:107-108]
"And whoever rebels against God and His Apostle and transgresses His bounds, him will He commit unto fire, therein to abide; and shameful suffering awaits him." [4:14]

"There shall come out of Hell-fire he who has said `There is no deity except God' and who has in his heart goodness weighing a barley-corn; then there shall come out of Hell-fire he who has said `There is no deity except God' and who has in his heart goodness weighing a grain of wheat; then there shall come out of Hell-fire he who has said `There is no deity except God' and who has in his heart goodness weighing an atom." - the Last Messenger




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