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WHY DID GOD CREATE THE DEVIL? God did not create the devil, anyone evil, or anything evil. Genesis 1:31 says that everything God created in the beginning was "very good." In fact, the word "good" is found a perfect seven times in Genesis chapter one (vss. 4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31). There was no devil and no evil until the garden of Eden in Genesis chapter three when iniquity was found in Lucifer, the anointed cherub who deceived Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. Notice carefully the wording of Ezekiel 28:13-15: "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee." This spirit being is called Lucifer in Isaiah 14:12. He wanted to be "like the most high" (Isa. 14:14), so he led mankind into sin and became what Paul called "the god of this world" (II Cor. 4:4). Lucifer could never rule over God righteous kingdom, so he created his own kingdom of darkness and sin by leading man to sin against God. His dream of being "like the most high" was echoed in his words to Eve in the garden: "ye shall be as gods." Lucifer has always worked through mankind. Even his "son of perdition," the Antichrist, will be a man (II Ths. 2:3; Rev. 13:18) So, there was never a moment of any kind of sin or rebellion before the garden of Eden. That's why the above text from Ezekiel 28 says that Lucifer's sin was "in Eden," not before Eden. He became Satan, meaning "the adversary," when he led man into sin. So, in reality, instead of being created, Satan created himself by choosing to become God's enemy.