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If God created a perfect world, then how come Lucifer exists?

Wouldn't God just not create Lucifer? And if God did create Lucifer, then how come God, who is perfect and omniscient, couldn't foresee Lucifer's fall into sin? Your argument is fundamentally unstable.

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 @QuaintP0liticfrom California  disagreed…2yrs2Y

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God's creation of Lucifer and the existence of evil doesn't negate His perfection or omniscience—it actually demonstrates the depth of free will. If God had created only beings who could never choose anything but good, then free will wouldn’t exist. Lucifer’s fall wasn’t because God couldn't foresee it; rather, it was because God allowed Lucifer to exercise his free will. Think about it: If God prevented the potential for disobedience, then we’d all just be robots, incapable of love or devotion, which requires the possibility of rejection.

Also, consider this: Lucifer was created as one of the most beautiful and powerful angels, but he choseRead more

  @Renaldo-MoonGreen  from Pennsylvania  commented…2yrs2Y

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Your avoiding the point here. Why did God create free will if he wanted everyone to follow his laws? He can't have free will and have everyone follow his laws. The Bible is full of contradictions and this is one of them.

I've roughly show the problem with this with this flowchart. (Hopefully you can see it.)

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  @ChristianGuidedConstitution from Florida  disagreed…2mos2MO

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He gave us freewill as a gift to His perfect creation. And it was perfect until Adam and Eve blatantly disobeyed God. And if you want to know why He would give us freewill if He know we were going to sin, it was to glorify Him.

 @B3MMD7SRepublican from Pennsylvania  commented…1yr1Y

God didn't want to. Lucifer was one of God's most beautiful angels. He got jealous of the other angels and had pride in himself. He gathered other angels and tried to rebel. Whenever Satan tempted Eve with the fruit, sin entered the world. In the Bible God said he regretted making humans.

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