If God created Satan, and Satan is Evil, Did God create evil?
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God did, according to Isaiah 45:7.
544058
if god is perfect, how could he create evil?  evil is an imperfection, a perfect being could not create something imperfect.
1177894
Satan. God gave Satan some abilities. Satan created sin.
259091
Because it is not necessarily God's will. He created us all and gave us all free will. Also, Satan is the one who is in charge of the bad things that are happening to us all! But, I think that God can(and does) use some bad things that happen to us and he turns them into a test...I think that it is mostly a test of faith. Hope this helps!
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What is your justification for stating that God is evil?  I mean examples. . . nothing that I can think of denotes evil
1112526
lol, the christian god is too human sounding to be a god in the first place. \nit wouldn't surprise me though, that god would pretend to be satan when he does bad things.\n\nbut they've obviously thought about this more than some christians have and recognized some sobering trends in the bible that don't coincide with the whole "god is only good" dogma they teach in sunday school.
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This is a great question.  God created EVERYTHING, right?  He has dominion and control over EVERYTHING in the universe, right?\n\nSo why is there sin?  God obviously didn't CREATE sin.  He ALLOWS it, but he didn't create it.  So who did?  Satan?  Man?  Either way, one of them, either the devil or man, has the same creative power as God then.  \n\nIf God didn't create homosexuality, and man did, then that makes man as powerful as God.  \n\nBut personally, I think God did create homosexuality - otherwise you wouldn't see it documented in EVERY species of animal on the planet.  And before you disagree, do some friggin research - all species have homosexuals.  It's not a choice, it's biology.\n\nAnd GOD created biology.
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Does that primitive fairy tale sound right to you?  For example why wouldn't Satan use his powers to make Hell really nice so that people wanted to go to Hell?  He could gain power by being nice.  The whole good and evil nonsense in the Bible is really very silly if you actually analyze it.
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Good and evil are highly biased concepts precisely because of social constructions such as God and Satan. However, we cannot look at the world as a set of binary opositions: white, black, up, down, God, Devil etc. If it really were about negativity and positivity if you can say that, then what the hell do we do with everything in between?!?! As far as Satan goes, he is just a human created mithological creature that scares small minded people and keeps them in line. He is the product of some idiot's imagination who wanted to control people's mind, Satan is a political weapon as is God; and for people's brainwashed little heads, he represents evil and darkness and "the enemy", so it is the people who attatch meaning to an otherwise meaningless nonexistant thing like the devil.
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Evil exists. Devil is a word humans created to make the evil less abstract and more tangible.\nIt is easier to hate an entity than a concept.
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I'm not sure how I'm gonna answer this, but here goes.\nLet's see: God created Lucifer (now known as Satan) as His second in command. Lucifer then saw how much better than all the other angels he was and thought to himself, "If I'm so much better than them, why can't I be better than God himself?" No one knows where this thought came from, seeing how God only makes perfect creations. The only logical place that it could have came from is freedom of choice that God gave them when He created the Angels. This freedom also explains why 1/3 of the Angels chose to follow Lucifer in his rebellion against God. After Lucifer and his demons (fallen angels) were cast out of Heaven, God seperated His angels so far away from Lucifer's that the demons know that they can never get back. Lucifer is free to come and go as he pleases in God's throneroom (as evidenced in the first chapter of Job), but he can never return to what he once was. This fact has angered him so much over the millenia that he's esentially declared war on humanity, God's most prized creation. The first battle in this war was waged on the day of Adam and Eve's temptation and fall away from God when Satan successfully decieved them to eat of the tree that God explicitly said not to eat from. The victory was prophesied not even a day later when the Spirit of the Lord walked through the Garden looking for Adam and Eve to felowship with them as He normally did, only to find them hiding from them, dressed in fig leaves. God asked them why they were ashamed of themselves, and then they went through the whole "it's his/her fault" routine, blaming each other for what one did. When the truth finally did come out (not like God didn't already know), God pronounced consequences on humanity (a series of hardships which can be read in Genesis 3), and cursed the serpent (as this was the creature Satan used to decieve Adam and Eve). The curse on the serpent also held hope for the redemption of Mankind, as it fortold of the defeat of Satan through the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The war was over before it begun! \n\nSo, to answer your question: Yes, Satan invented the concept of sin. He then successfully marketed this concept to himself, his demons, and ultimately to humanity. He even tried to get Jesus to sin, but since Jesus is God in the flesh (and God is perfect), he couldn't do it. Jesus was the only man who ever lived here on earth that lead a perfect life, one completely without sinning.
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The possibility of evil existed.\n\nBecause evil (in the biblical sense) is transgressing the spirit or word of God's Law.\n\nThat's why there was a law in the first place, so the created beings would have a guideline for happiness and perfection.\n\nGreat question!
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Satan was kicked out of heaven and came down here on earth. \n\n2Cor. 4:3,4 says that he is the god of this system of things\nnotice it has a little g meaning it is not talking about the Almighty God\n\nJohn 12:31 says he is the ruler of the world. \n\nI mean if this world is bad because of satan not God.\n\nIf God were the ruler of this world then it wouldn't be the way it is now.
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Satan didn't hijack the universe, he brought up the issue of gods right to rule man.  If God just destroyed satan and humans and then started over again his point wouldn't be proven and no one would learn and that wouldn't be fair.  Instead he allows us to rule ourselves with satans influence to allow us to make our own choice and prove his right to rule.
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An argument could be made -- a yin yang comparison.  Even from a more traditional Judaeo-Christian perspective, since god is omnipresent, couldn't he be both god and satan?  A method of introducing free will, perhaps.
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Satan does one thing and one thing only--he whispers.  He whispers into the hearts and minds of every individual and tells us to do bad, mischevioius, awful, evil, and ugly things.  He never actually does anything evil, he just suggests it.  It's human beings who do the bad/evil things, per his prompting of course.  Still, we are ultimately responsible for whatever action we take, we allow the devil's whisperings to overcome us and we act upon his evil suggestions, so we're the one's to blame.
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In the book of Job, Satan is pretty chummy with God and makes wagers with him like two blokes at a country club.\n\nAccording to Paradise Lost, Satan rebelled against God because he would not serve Him. ("Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.")\n\nIsn't God everything? If God is everything, isn't Satan just an aspect of God?