Why Did God Create Satan?

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. If God is all -knowing, why did he create

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Satan, who he knew would fall? Now, this challenge can actually be extended as well to, why did

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Adam and Eve fall? If God knew everything, in other words, he's omniscient, then why did he do such a thing?

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Now, this is hard for us to understand at a human level, but scripture does provide an answer for us.

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And this would be in Romans chapter 9, reading from 14 to 23.

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But when we look at this, it's really verse 22 that we focus on. He says, he talks about the injustice of God.

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Is there injustice with God? He says in verse 14, by no means. He talks about the scriptures say in verse 17 that Pharaoh had, he rose

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Pharaoh up for the exact purpose of his heart being hardened to, and it says here specifically, for this is the very purpose that I've raised you up that you might show my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed on the earth.

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So he rose him up specifically for that purpose. But we get the answer in verse 22 of Romans 9.

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What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power has endured with much patience, vessels of wrath prepared for destruction.

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So God actually allows this, allows people to sin so he could display attributes of his that can never be displayed without people sinning.

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God would never be able to show his love, his long suffering, his wrath, and these others, unless people and Satan chose to violate his law.

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So it's actually an act of showing his attributes. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry.

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