Q & A Why did God create Satan if he knew what he would do?

The purpose of human creation is simply to choose to love God. Another question is why did God create the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? If He hadn’t created it, Adam and Eve couldn’t have sinned.

God wanted man to choose Him freely. So, he gave mankind freewill.

But what good is it to have freewill and not be able to use it? It would be like me cutting two identical pieces of cake, from the same cake, and asking if you would like a piece of cake or a piece of cake? Then telling you to pick! It’s not really a choice.

God has always been good at giving us choices, along with telling us the consequences of choosing wrongly. It’s important to God that we have choices.

For instance, what if someone wanted to marry you and they told you that you were the best person ever for them! The reality, you are the only two people left on earth. Not a very impressive proposal is it. But if they had two people to choose from and they gave you the reasons why you were the better choice over the other one, that would be much more moving.

This is why God created Satan and allowed the Devil to tempt man. Satan makes the choices more appealing. He is a great deceiver.

Satan made the tree a much better choice for Adam and Eve by telling them that they will become as gods!  Satan did exactly what God knew he would.

This wasn’t about setting man up to fail. This was about giving man a real choice. If man chooses God under these kinds of circumstances, the choice to love God would be much more real to both God and the person who made it.

Satan does make everything look more alluring. If we decide to choose God over the pleasures of sin, then the decision is much more meaningful to both us and God.

Christianity is about having a relationship with God. It’s not a list of things we can or cannot do. Choosing God is more important than the things that we shouldn’t do.

It is a choice. And making that choice is what God wanted from the beginning.

 

Contributor: Greg B.  

 

Debra Lee | Author | Keynote Speaker | Biz & Life Coach

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