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Did God intend for for Satan to become the Devil and take a third of the other angels when He created him?

Do you think God was suprised? Disappointed? Didn't he know it was going to happen? Do you think he wanted it to happen so he could have a place to send bad people after they died? Or to scare people into behaving properly?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    God's desire and Will for us was to "behave properly" and to love Him on our own. He already created us good and Adam & Eve didn't even know what evil and wrong was until they doubted God, listened to the devil and obeyed their own desire for more knowledge. When they were first created,they knew only what was good.

    It wasn't until they ate of the tree of knowledge of good AND evil. Infact, Adam didn't even know he was naked until then. After he'd eaten from the tree he hid himself when heard God in the Garden. When God asked him why he hid himself, he said he was naked and afraid so he hid himself, then God asked an interesting question, He said, "Who 'told you' you were 'naked'? Have you eaten from the tree I commanded you not to?"

    Every thing God created from the beginning was good, including Lucifer. The site below explains what you're asking better than I can.

    http://www.learnthebible.org/q-a-satan-vs-lucifer....

  • 1 decade ago

    He was certainly disappointed. There is a point in the bible where God is shown to have 'regretted' creating the world. This is before the flood. Due to the badness that was everywhere. However, since he had uttered the prophesy in the Garden, about the Seed, the Devil had to live in order for these things to come true and not to let one single angel or human being doubt that Satan was in fact Wrong.

  • 1 decade ago

    God created all the angels before humans, and when mankind start living in the garden of Eden some of Gods angel become rebellious and make thier selves as Gods enemy(Satan the Devil and demons).

    its not Gods purpose but because angels too, had free will and those Angels who become demons choose to dis obeyed God and become rebel.

  • 1 decade ago

    satan is not a real being, just a figment of some medieval fools nightmarish idealism.

    lucifer, the angel of light, was given free will, just as all others were given free will. he chose to exercise it. whether he has recognized his action as what it was is irrelevant.

    if god forgives anyone of their sins, will he not also forgive lucifer his?

    none is rejected of the kingdom, but many are not yet able to understand what it is, or where it is. they are not rejected, but are ignorant. only through knowledge will they begin to understand, and thus, enter the kingdom.

    jesus was the guide, and not the only one. many were appointed to guide, few have been truly followed. jesus has not been followed, though he was one of the greatest of the guides.

    religion is good at controlling, but lacks any ability to guide, preferring instead to punish those who will not follow. if they refused, they were slaughtered by the millions. if you doubt this, read any world history book.

    religion was the basis for more death and destruction than ALL the natural destructive forces combined. and of course, it continues to do as it always has done- destroy in the name of god, or jesus, or allah, or the elephant man!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    God is never surprised ! I do believe that He was hurt and disappointed about what had happened.

    God doesn't scare anyone into behaving a certain way. He lures us with love, we are the bad guys ,not Him !!!

  • Silver
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    One of the good things that God made was creatures who had the freedom to choose good. In order to have a real choice, God had to allow there to be something besides good to choose. So God allowed these free angels and humans to choose good or non-good (evil). When a bad relationship exists between two good things we call that evil, but it does not become a "thing" that required God to create it.

    Being omniscient, he knew it was going to happen, but he was still disappointed as he is with all sin.

  • 1 decade ago

    Or perhaps its just a bunch of made up stuff in an old book....?

    And that you should be a good human being without someone "watching over you" we dont need a "god" to tell us how to act...we already have that its called the government, which isnt rly any better.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't think it was a plan of God's . I think Satan got jealous over what God was doing creating the earth and proably knew he was going to create Adam and got jealous.I think God was disappointed. God didn't and doesn't want no one to go to Hell. But when we reject his Son - that's our punishment . People are not in Hell because they sinned -- they are in Hell because they rejected Jesus.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "It has been believed heretofore in the world that there is one devil that presides over the hells; that he was created an angel of light; but having become rebellious he was cast down with his crew into hell. This belief has prevailed because the devil and satan, and also lucifer, are mentioned by name in the Word, and the Word in those places has been understood according to the sense of the letter. But by "devil" and "satan" there hell is meant, "devil" meaning the hell that is behind, where the worst dwell, who are called evil genii; and "satan" the hell that is in front, where the less wicked dwell, who are called evil spirits; and "lucifer" those that belong to Babel, or Babylon, who would extend their dominion even into heaven. That there is no one devil to whom the hells are subject is evident also from this, that all who are in the hells, like all who are in the heavens, are from the human race (see n. 311-317); and that those who have gone there from the beginning of creation to this time amount to myriads of myriads, and every one of them is a devil in accord with his opposition to the Divine while he lived in the world" (Heaven and Hell n. 544).

  • 1 decade ago

    sure, why not?

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