So where exactly did Satan come from and why create him in the first place

 on Monday, January 24, 2011 at 1:22am

As anyone who knew me in my 20's will tell you. I love absolutely love to hash out the bible with someone. I could talk about it for hours. One my favorite discussions was always so when do you think God actually made Satan. I mean we know it was near the beginning right. Well something just came to me tonight. I was, (okay sometimes at night I pretend God is right here and we discuss biblical stuff while I am settling down for the night and well it just hit me)  thinking about choices and how God had to make evil for he created everything.  Though He is not evil, we couldn't very well have choices if evil wasn't there to chose, right. So God made Satan. Satan is the father of evil. God created a being he knew would lead men astray because without that they could not choose God. And God wanted us to be able to choose. So of course I had to get on the web and pull up bible.com, because I don't want to turn on a light to read my bible. (I know I'm hopeless.) i have more resources than I have brain cells or at least I think that what some people think. But that's okay. I love having so many things at my fingertips. So actually I loved to know what you think, so if you want to comment on this well it started out as profile status but since I am never able to "keep it short" I am sure this will wind up being a note. I think evil is first mentioned in Genesis 2:9. so that is the closest I can get to when Satan was created. I doubt it really matters. I mean evil is here and we all look forward to the day it is no more. But, I'm one of those who has a hard time with "Because I said so" I have to dig and dig and dig to make sure that is the only answer I will be getting. It's one of my greatest gifts and biggest failings. It has helped me deal with things in a way that makes many people think I'm nuts. The fact that my mother abused us and I analyze it like it was a science experiment bothers many. But it is in my strangeness that I see God. I have just come to realize that the strangeness in us that makes a difference that everyone else tries to get us to change the very thing that God had gifted us with to make us unique and special and able to be in his servants like no one else can. No matter where evil came from, we are here to battle it. To give it to God over and over again and to chose between it and God. There are so many that want something else to take the place of the God shaped "hole" in all of us. but only God can fit it. But we use every peg Satan gives us to try and fit. Satan's problem. He has no clue what shape to make but he has spent all of creation trying to find it. The good news though is he never will.