God created an angel. The angel chose to rebel. Man chose to follow him.
“If Satan exists, who created him?”
“Which prompts another question.
Why would God create something so evil and so imperfect?”
The Bible says God created the angels and Lucifer (Satan) was the most beautiful. He wasn’t satisfied with that and rebelled getting some angels to join him. He was cast to earth to do his dirty work and, after the Lord’s Day comes, he will be cast into hell.
satan was not crated evil. read the bible. he was made perfect and was the leader of the angelic worship, he was jeweled and above the throne of God, he led the musical chorus - his pipes are mnetioned. got too proud and thought he could plant his throne above God’s.
“Why would God create something so evil and so imperfect?”
I fit that description pretty well. Yet He keeps forgiving me and loving me. And that’s why I love Him back so much.
God created Lucifer, not satan! God is the ONLY PERFECT one and Lucifer wanted the praise that was bestowed on God. So he used deception to get it with TWISTING GOD’S WORD. Nothing new under the sun.
Satan was one of God’s beloved and most beautiful angels. One who fell from grace after believing and acting upon the assumption that he too, could be as God.
Of course, this is a highly annotated version, and I’m not quite sure it isn’t a metaphor for mans own dilemma.
“Why would God create something so evil and so imperfect?”
Well, if Satan was created with free will, then he wasn’t created evil, or imperfect, unless you consider free will itself to be imperfection. It’s one of the possible consequences of free will that results in the evil, but it’s also one of the consequences that results in good.
Virtue only has meaning when it’s performed without compulsion or self-interest. So, if free will, and the possibility of choosing evil, was removed, then there really wouldn’t be any meaning to the good that we might do. Basically, it would be a universe where nobody ever apologized because they meant it, but always because their Mom and Dad were forcing them to.