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Originally Posted by Lisa111
God created Satan. I'm still wondering how an omnibenevolent being even has the ability to create evil.
Why are we pre-judged?
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We aren't pre-judged. We were judged at the time we became knowledgeable of God and a Savior, and chose to reject that because of our sin nature.
John 3:18
"He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
God did not create evil. Evil does not contain any means of physics, it does not have energy, spatial dimensions, or matter. Therefore evil cannot be created. God allowed for evil and good to happen. But if you are looking for a author of evil, the first man to ever commit a evil deed was Lucifer.
Isaiah 14:12-14
"How you have fallen from heaven,
O star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who have weakened the nations!
"But you said in your heart,
'I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God,
And I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the recesses of the north.
'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.'
Lucifer desired to be better than God. And so God gave Satan the reign over evil, and cast him and His followers from Heaven. If you want to get into more detail of evil read Ezekiel 28:12-19.
In Ezekiel 28:15 it say's that God created Lucifer without sin.
"You were blameless in your ways
From the day you were created
Until unrighteousness was found in you.
This shows that God is not even the AUTHOR of evil, but Satan formed evil from his heart.
As I keep saying, many of these questions do not make sense, and will not be answered until we get to Heaven. The Bible is NOT based off of knowledge it is based off of Faith.
Think of it like this:
You are going to skydive, you have a parachute, as you leap from the plane you have faith that your parachute will deploy and save you from death. However, you DO NOT KNOW that your parachute will deploy, you simple have FAITH it will. You may have a ton of knowledge in the world about sky diving and about how your parachute works, but in the end you simply have faith it will deploy and save you from death. Much like the bible, we studying to get more knowledge and understand God's ways and how He works. But in the end it is not our knowledge that saves us. It's our Faith that Jesus will be there to rescue us from destruction.
Even as a Christian, we will have our doubts, much like a skydiver. We will ask the "what if this, what if that", so on and so forth. But in the end like the skydiver, we have Faith we will be saved.