if god so great why did he make the devil [Spirituality & Religion]

God didn't create the devil. He created a beautiful angel, named Lucifer. Like us, the angels have free will and like us, a third of them, including Lucifer, rebelled against God. Lucifer became their leader and has been giving them a snow-job ever since.

You can appreciate good if you have seen bad, can appreciate happiness if you know what is sadness.

or cancer or aids or children dying or suffering

He didn't make a devil and angel turned into a devil

He created an angel, then he turned devil... by his own choice. Don't get shit twisted

I realize this is likely just a silly post, but just in case...

Do you realize "The Devil" was God's favorite angel? That means he is not that demonic creature he's made out to be. How can he have once been God's favorite, and want plague and pestilence? He is more like us than you know. He just wants things his way and disagrees with God... just as we do! What's wrong with holding on to anger for someone who's harmed us, when our Father encourages forgiveness? What's wrong with desiring my neighbor's wife? Her husband don't love her anyway? It's more like that!

And God does not create cancer or cause any level of pain or suffering. He does not interfere with anything on this earth, positive or negative. He does not test us or put us through anything for any reason. Everything is left to chance in this life. He does not cure disease or provide opportunity through prayer. What He does do is give those strength to endure who seek Him. He lifts hearts and changes things from the inside, so we can hopefully change things outside of us.

Joke all you want. I get it. I have one hell of a sense of humor, and often a sick one. I'm even ok with jokes involving God. I'm not saying I have all the answers or do everthing right, but I know what I said to be true.

Anthropomorphism for chaos and the things the sentient mind doesn't like. Once the 'illumination for the throne of God', but had too much ambition and lost his standing. I am a heretical Christian. I believe the stories in Genesis are just a primitive view of what would have been an excellent science fiction series. Terra-forming, hybridization, and extraterrestrial involvement with earth happened. Primitive man recorded it the only way his primitive mind could conceive, and we have "The Bible" . It is the most magnificent book on earth, but it is simply a primitive interpretation of events that happened because of involvement of highly advanced beings with their experiment. The 'experiment' being earth. Earth is a planet but the life upon it was put here by something else. Mass behavior modification has been practiced and observation and minimal involvement is still ongoing. It's all real. It's all true. It is just written as well as middle eastern nomads, warriors, Kings, Fishermen, and farmers could manage. We are still as primitive as Australopithecus compared to the being and beings that these people were writing about.

He doesn't even know what to do with all his "children" on Earth, so he lets millions of people die and suffer. You think he's gonna have an answer to your question? Lol.

There is a school of thought that says God IS the devil in disguise, fooling people.

It's not a very good disproving argument.

He needed someone to blame for everything that went wrong.

The devil was an angel in heaven at first.

He needed an adversary.

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It could be the devil IS god in disguise. Could be if these weren't all fictional beings, that is.

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Perhaps to experience and learn from all facets of existence.

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