Because God is innocent, He created the system called free will so that He, and those angels that He created, would have the ability to choose to create many different but good systems. Because God knew nothing about evil, He did not realize that free will had a weakness in it that Lucifer could use to choose to rebel against God. The fact that God knew nothing about evil does not mean that God is not Omniscient. God has an infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative. All that God can know about the destructive force of evil is by the use of His useful idea of nothing.
Lucifer also knew nothing about evil until he became influenced by negative and destructive consciousnesses that somehow entered Heaven from Hell that the Bible calls devils. The sudden appearance of evil in Lucifer carried with it the implication that God became shocked by that. Ezekiel 28:15 (KJB). But God knew what to do. God used His fiery wrath to strip and recover all of His good ideas that He had put into Lucifer's system, and He exiled him to earth as an empty being called Satan. As a negative consciousness, Satan does not even exist in any positive form, but as a destructive and evil force, he does exist within God's creation. Ezekiel 28:13-19 (KJB). Ezekiel 28:19 clearly teaches that, in himself, Satan does not exist. Yet, in some mysterious way, he exists as a force of destructive evil within God's creation. II Thessalonians 2:7 (KJB). In a sense, a tornado that destroys nothing, and which no human sees, would not exist, or at least its existence would equal its nonexistence. But if it destroys something, then it would exist as a destructive force.
Because God is innocent and Holy, He feels guilty about His accidental creation of evil. Isaiah 45:6-8 (KJB). "The earth was without form and void" when God created it. Genesis 1:2 (KJB). That meant it non-existed in a state of absolute nothingness when God replaced it with a positive creation. When God "created the heaven and the earth," He did not realize that that "void" would remain behind the scenes of His creation. Genesis 1:1 (KJB). He did not realize that because only nothing can be known about a void. That void would become the source of the devils who do not exist within themselves, but they can exist as a destructive force within God's creation.
When God created humans in His image, He created them to be good and innocent. Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). But He also gave them free will which they could use to create their own good and useful systems. Genesis 1:28-31 (KJB). Before they sinned, Adam and Eve knew nothing about evil, and they did not realize that they were good. They just lived in a state of blissful innocence. But because God was at war with Satan who sought to destroy God and His creations, God had to prove that His accidental creation of a weakness in the system of free will did not mean that He had a weakness in His Almighty Love for His creations. Satan knew that God had given free will to humans, and he knew that he could misuse that free will to cause humans to choose to sin and become dead and evil so that he would be able to utterly destroy their souls and spirits and thereby prove that God's Love could not be Almighty. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). If Satan could utterly destroy a part of God's creation, then that would also give him an opportunity to destroy God Himself. Isaiah 14:12-14 (KJB).
God gave Adam and Eve a choice knowing that the weakness in their free will would cause them to eat of the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil, instead of the tree of life, whenever Satan would find a way to tempt them. Genesis 2:15-17 (KJB). God also knew that when they sinned, Satan would gain the right to plant the destructive force of spiritual death within their inner beings which would inevitably cause them to commit sins and evil. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Satan, not having any real existence within himself, but as a destructive force, had to take possession of a serpent in order to tempt Eve to sin and cause Adam to deliberately sin which was also evil. Genesis 3:1-15 (KJB). Satan thought that spiritual death would eventually utterly destroy the most important part of Gods's creation, but Satan did not reckon on God using His own free will to become a human and sacrifice Himself on a cruel cross in the place of every human to take away their sins and evil and die their spiritual deaths in their place and rise from the dead with complete victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil so that Christ could forever save the entire human race, some by His grace and all others by His visit to them in the end of the world. God used His own free will to annul the weakness in the free will that He had created. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21; John 6:33; John 5:24; John 5:28-29; Luke 23:34; John 12:31-32; I Corinthians 15:20-26; Colossians 1:20; Revelation 5:11-14; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).
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