Why did God create Satan?
have best evidence in this issue. We were not there. The Bible has revealed little about the origins of sin. The Bible treats sin as a crisis plaguing all creation. If I am faced by a shark in the pool, I want you to help me out before you explain where it came from. This subject requires revelation. I am not going to come to complete understanding of our unfathomable Creator on my own. Speculating on motives He has not revealed makes as much sense as speculating on the color of sand on the beach of a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy a million parsecs away. And it is foolish to set ourselves up as God’s judges. From the book of Job in the 4th chapter a spirit appears to one of Job’s friends. The spirit says man can not be more righteous than his Maker. The demon resents God for charging His angels with error. It is not reasonable for us to agree with that spirit. Do we have good reason to begin with the assumption that God is righteous? Yes. Everything we know points to the existence