I have had this thought for some time, and cannot really get past it.
I like to write stories, and in them there are always an antagonist. Whatever level of evil this person is, to make him/her seem believable and have depth and character I always base him/her on parts of myself. I can exaggerate the level of evil from myself, but I cannot invent something that doesn’t really exist.
If I ask Christians where evil and good comes from, many would say that good has its origin in God and evil in Satan. But Satan was just an angel, created by God. Even if Lucifer was created to be good he turned evil. And if he did, how did he have the capacity of doing so if evil didn’t already exist?
The Bible says God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt any person.
God said be holy for I am holy.
God is good, and before God created anything there was only Him, so there was no evil but only good.
God created the angels with a choice for that is true love, so they had the capacity to be evil if they wanted to do evil, which the only sin they could of done at that time would be rebellion.
Lucifer wanted to be like the most High so he sinned as soon as he thought that, and he and some of the angels rebelled against God, and then evil started.
We know God is an omnipresent Spirit, and all powerful, so we know we do not want to go against such a powerful being, and it is a fearful thing to fall in to the hands of the living God.
So why did Lucifer rebel when God is so powerful.
Lucifer must not have known how great God is so he rebelled against Him.
Our visible relationship to God is Jesus which if you have seen Him you have seen the Father.
So God probably was in an angelic manifestation as His visible relationship to the angels, and Lucifer might have thought is that all there is to God, and thought he could exalt himself above Him.
Angels cannot even see God unless He shows them a visible manifestation, which God was manifest in the flesh, seen of angels.
We get to know that God is omnipresent for we are not with Him, and it is based on faith, but the angels might not have known that God is greater than that visible image.
Adam and Eve were created innocent, and with a choice, and that is why the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was in the garden.
It would of never entered their mind to eat of the tree unless an outside source tempted them.
So God allowed Satan to tempt Eve and she said they could not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for that is all she could know and think.
Then Satan tempted her with an alternate reality that would exalt them higher than their current position, and Eve sinned, and then she was the outside source that tempted Adam by showing him she did not die, and no harm came to her, and he sinned.
Then all their children were born with a choice, so they are born not knowing God so they will do wrong before they do right and follow God.
For all have sinned, done the act, not born with sin, and come short of the glory of God, for we are not blamed for Adam and Eve's sin for that is their sin.
The Bible says Lucifer was created perfect in his ways, until iniquity was found in him, but he had a choice and sinned.
Which angels are one being with no components, so when they sinned they tainted their while being with no way to put off the sin, so they cannot be redeemed.
God made man upright but they sought out many inventions, and everybody is born with no sin on their record, and innocent.
People can be redeemed for all sin resides in the flesh, and when forgiven you put off the flesh and the sin, and the soul is preserved forever, and all spirits go back to God who gave them regardless of how they acted on earth.
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