Why did God create Lucifer???

[The Humanist Manifesto]

Why would God create Lucifer if He already knew that he would become the Devil?


He knew he would become the Devil because he is all-knowing.



The freewill argument doesnt work here because God is all knowing....he knew he would do that. So why would God create the Devil?

[kal-el]

God created Satan

I'm glad you aknowledge that.

Full of pride, he rebelled, leading a third of the angels. Unable to match the Almighty God, Lucifer was cast to the earth where he has operated as the devil ever since.

But all of this rules out omniscience. What God didn't know his creation, Satan, would rebell against him? If you say he did, why create Satan in the first place?

God did not create Lucifer as evil but allowed the potential for sin.

Right on the money. A benevolent God ALLOWED humans to sin. A loving God would not give us free will if we choose to sin.

While God cannot commit sin, He doesn’t take it away from those who do. When Lucifer chose to rebel, he instantly became the author of sin. Evil is the result of a free-will choice by Lucifer.

And just where did Lucifer get the knowledge of evil in the first place? That's right, God. God created Lucifer. At the onset of creation, God himself had full knowledge of the evils Satan would perpetrate. The serpent, Lucifer in the garden had prior knowledge of evil BEFORE Adam and Eve sinned. The only places Adam and Eve could have learned about evil are the tree and the serpent, but the serpent did not eat from the tree. So we can gather the facts and postulate that the serpent got knowledge of evil directly from God. So that begs the question, why would a loving God create such an evil creature?

Satan and sin don’t foil God’s divine purposes.

I contest that. According to popular mythology, sin is a direct result of the serpent tempting Adam and Eve, correct? Well, Satan or the serpent, made it that God had to sacrifice himself to wash away something for which he created.