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Conclusion: God created a perfect cherub and named him Lucifer, which means "the morning star"....

Having stated that fact I have another question: Didn't God know that Lucifer would rebel and become Satan, "the adversary"?

Answer: Yes!

Question: Then why did He create him anyway?

 

Bad analogy.....God didn't create a bomb....Lucifer, a perfect being, became a bomb. That's not God's fault.

God took the chance when He decided to create free-will beings in His image and likeness. He knew that angelic perfection would fail, but He created him anyway. Why?

 

God is not responsible for iniquity. That was Lucifer's creation or invention.

Yes, He knew....He knew that angelic perfection, and human perfection, would fail. Did both have to fail? No, but nevertheless He knew it would and that Lucifer would become His adversary.

So the real question is why did God proceed?

 

So you are telling me that God, a holy & righteous being, who hates sin created sin?

That's a terrible conclusion. Show me, using the Bible, that God "wanted sin to occur"!

 

Yes, God created free-will beings with the limited possibility to rebel against their Maker and His agape love. He knew Lucifer & 1/3 the angels would rebel, but He allowed it away. He didn't ordain it...He allowed it, but for a purpose.

 

I don't know about where you work, but where I work management is always coming up with ideas to make the business more profitable. Most know what they are really after is job promotion, i.e., climbing to the top.

The question is how do you know if an idea is good or bad? Just because it looks good on paper doesn't mean the idea will work in the real world. The only way to test a theory is to allow it to develop.

 

He allowed it for a purpose and that purpose was so that iniquity would never happen again....

 

Yes, and He knew that if he created free-will beings, that some would rebel against the foundation of His government, which is agape love.

Lucifer found agape too restrictive. He wished to improve upon the lot the angels. So Lucifer came up with the idea of a u-turn agape. The Bible calls this iniquity. The primary meaning of iniquity is not an act but a condition. As a result of the fall, man by very nature is spiritually “bent,” so that the driving force of his very nature is love of self.

 

Calling God insane? Hmmm?

Anyway, let's say you're God, and you want to create free-will beings, but because your creation is based on "free will" you run the risk that it could turn against you. What do you do?

 

He knew that free-will beings would be problematic....So He had two choices. Make us like robots or take the chance....He went with the latter.

Lucifer rebelled against God's agape love. He insisted that self-love was better than God's agape love. Again, the only way to test a theory is to allow it to develop and thereby expose the nature of sin so that future created beings would not be deceived by Lucifer's system of self-love.

 

No, it is you who are missing the point.

God knew sin would arise in the creation of free-will beings. He also knew that "sin is a deceiver". That's why 1/3 of the angels followed Lucifer. That's why our original parents fell.

The only way to ensure righteousness & immorality to future beings was to expose the fallacy of self-love (sin). Once exposed sin would not arise a second time. All will have witnessed that the love of self ultimately brings ruin and death.

Satan's rebellion against God's agape was to be a lesson to the universe through all coming ages, a perpetual testimony to the nature and terrible results of sin. The working out of Satan's love of self, its effects upon both men and angels, would show what must be the fruit of setting aside the divine authority. It would testify that with the existence of God's government and His law is bound up the well-being of all the creatures He has made. Thus the history of this terrible experiment of rebellion was to be a perpetual safeguard to all holy intelligences, to prevent them from being deceived as to the nature of transgression, to save them from committing sin and suffering its punishments.