Was Satan Created by God to be the great deceiver?

Question

If God knows everything, wouldn't He have known the outcome before the creation?

Answer 1

Satan was created to be the "light bearer". While God knew what was going to happen, it was allowed to happen.

Unfortunately for Lucifer, he was not a "free-will" agent and will pay the penalty for his acts.

Answer 2

See this: man has free will, so I guess that angels also have free will. It there is going to be any correlation of time and space between man and angels, then this a tremendous one.

Let us imaging that we are the heavenly beings, God and Angels, let us imaging that something happens like a revolt or something like that, so this problem would take a definite time to resolve, but then considering that the man is involved, being the man fallen in a condition of sub-existence in relation to the angels, then for the man this would take a great amount of time for seeing the results of such a problem.


Therefore, for God and the angels everything is almost completed or maybe even has happened, but for the man not, and for the same reason he "God" has already known the outcome of his creation, and for the same reason, if Jesus says:
Luke 23:43
Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."

That is then, whether paradise already exist (in another planet, or physical or spiritual plane), or the day he is referring to is a normal day for Jesus but not a normal 24 hour day for the man.

So what is the mystery about life if is not that it is the physical body what impedes us from traveling at the speed of light.

I believe there are parts of the Physical phenomenon of the Universe and of Creation that is still incomprehensible for man.

It seems to be as if we are living someone else's blink, or if we are just part of a greater system of life which has been infected with some kind of spiritual parasite.

And I thank God for bringing some of us everyday more and more to light in the blessings and wisdom of Jesus Christ, through the power of God's creative Holy Ghost.

Answer 3

I think of Satan is the spiritual red dragon in the sky. The spirituality of the serpent species. I look at the fallen angels as the 1/3 angels who rebelled with the red dragon. So? They are all serpents or fallen angels. I think the demons are the offspring of the fallen angels who raped women before the flood.

All that is written in the Word is that in the beginning, the dragon wasn't a deceiver. In the beginning God said, "It is good...". The name Satan means destroyer. So, it is the fallen's name. Satan is the murder, deceiver & thief since the beginning. I believe this happened when the tree lizard deceived the woman in the Garden of Eden. And death & the devil ruled since the fall of mankind.

God, gives people the choice. We reap what we sow.

Answer 4

No, satan was never suppose to decieve.
Yes, GOD knew befor it all happened.

My Thoughts Only:
If every Time you Create a race of Beings and you give them FreeWill ---They Mess it Up!!!

And if you Look Ahead and See that EVERYTIME you Create a Race of Beings and give them FreeWill--- SOMEBODY MESSES UP!!

What ya gonna Do?

Go with the Flow!!!
Go Ahead and Create (cause you want a Family, Friends so on) LET THEM MESS UP (cause their going to anyway) then, Sort them out (Chaff and the Wheat) using satan.

Now, you didn't Create satan for that purpose, but, he blew it and your going to allow satan to continue to seperate Human Beings.

Don't worry, just be on the Side that Wins!!!
Get Saved!!!
This life won't last much longer, if you Accept Jesus as your Saviour, YOU'LL be in Heaven One Day!!
Just make sure YOU get there!! And Pray for EveryBody Else to get there too.

Ditto.........sometimes, Very Rare, even People who have gotten Saved, Filled with the Holy Spirit, Walked with GOD in High Places---commit the Unpardonable Sin--What does that tell ya?
FreeWill.
You can Choose.
Human Beings are Deep.

Answer 5

Lucifer is God's fall guy.

Lucifer is an angel. a creation of god. He is not all-knowing, or all powerful.

God is all-knowing and all-powerful (allegedly) so there is nothing that Lucifer can plan that God does not know in every detail, there is nothing that Lucifer can do that God can not stop with a simple thought.

This is a logical conclusion from the Cristian definitions of God and Lucifer. There is no alternative interpretation.

But, apparently Lucifer is allowed to run around creating all sorts of mischief and evil. But from above, this can only be at God's pleasure God must know what is going to happen and must be able to stop it - but does not.

Lucifer is a fall guy for simple minded people to blame when God wants bad things to happen.

Answer 6

Satan was a PR stunt created to make the old Gods into the new demon and force more people into Christianity. Anyone who didn't believe as Christians did could be branded a Satan worshipper so they could be killed or have their lands and assets stolen.

Answer 7

No, satan was created by God to be a worship leader. Satan decided for himself to go a different route.

Answer 8

It's just a long story that doesn't make any sense. If god created satan and is all knowing he'd have known what would happen. Therefore, he is doing all of the evil in the world by allowing it to happen. Either your god isn't as powerful as you think or they simply do not exist.

Answer 9

Honey, Satan/Lucifer was an angel. Now he is a fallen angel, banished from God's presence. God gives us a concscience to help us to determine good and bad. BUT, GOD ALLOWS US TO MAKE OUR CHOICES. Before we are born, when we are formed in the womb, He knows how we will conduct our lives and the choices we will make. He loves us in spite of our human short comings, and He loves us to come to Him and seek Him.

Answer 10

Just because God knows the end result, doesn't mean He'll stop it. He gives us freewill. Satan wasn't necessarily "created" by God. He was an angel that got boastful and wanted to be as important as God. He was banished to Hell and took 1/3 of the Heavenly host with him.

Answer 11

Angels have free will just as humans. God did not create him to be wicked. Deut 32: 4 states "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."

Prior to becoming Satan or a deceiver and "father of the lie"
he is spoken of as being "full of wisdom and perfect in beauty....the anointed cherub..you were faultless in your ways from the day of your being created until unrighteousness was found in you" Ezekiel 28:11-19

Isaiah 14: 12-14 states "O how you have fallen from heaven, you shining one, son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the earth, you who were disabling the nations! As for you, you have said in your heart, 'To the heavens I shall go up. Above the stars of God I shall lift up my throne, and I shall sit down upon the mountain of meeting, in the remotest parts of the north. I shall go up above the high places of the clouds; I shall make myself resemble the Most High."

John 8:44 "You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a manslayer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because the truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie."

1 John 5: 19 "We know we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one."

Rev. 12: 9 & 12 "So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him".."On this account be glad you heavens and you who reside in them! Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time."

2 Cor. 4: 4 "among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through."

Satan is very real. He was not something religious leaders came up with to scare people. Satan will not live forever. Rev 20: 2 & 3 "And he seized the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. And hurled him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him, that he might not mislead the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After these things he must be let loose for a little while" verse 7 - 10 "Now as soon as the thousand years have been ended, Satan will be let loose out of his prison, ....they advanced over the breadth of the earth and encirlced the camp of the holy ones and the beloved city. But fire came down out of heaven and devoured them. And the Devil who was misleading them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur.."

Psalms 37: 10 & 11 & 29 "And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more, and you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace....The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it."