Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil:
I the Lord do all these things.
Who made the devil to be a sinner?
Are you saying God made the devil to be a sinner?
JLB
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Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil:
I the Lord do all these things.
Who made the devil to be a sinner?
Are you saying God made the devil to be a sinner?
JLB
Who made the devil to be a sinner?
Are you saying God made the devil to be a sinner?
JLB
Who made the devil to be a sinner?
Are you saying God made the devil to be a sinner?
JLB
Colossians 1:16
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
There are no exceptions.
We all know that all things were created by God.
The question that you are to embarrassed to answer is:
Who made the devil to be a sinner?
We know that God created Michael, and Gabriel and Lucifer.
These are angels.
Lucifer was the one who wanted to sit on God's throne and be as God.
God didn't make him desire that.
That should answer the question then.
God created all things. There are no exceptions.
Lucifer was created as an angel of God, just like Gabriel.
Lucifer wanted to be as God and worshipped. Gabriel is still an angel of God.
Lucifer is now the enemy of God.
Lucifer was in heaven and was thrown out, Gabriel was not. God didn't make Satan sin.
That's false doctrine and heresy.
There is zero scriptural evidence that Lucifer or Satan or the devil or the great dragon or the behemoth or the leviathan or any other term of symbolism is applied to that "entity" and it's class were EVER HOLY. It is a "freewill" fairy tale that doesn't exist in the scriptures. God Himself separated "Light from Darkness" from the very beginning. But they are both alike to Him.
Psalm 139:12
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
IF God Himself didn't create "enemies" they wouldn't exist. IF God wanted those enemies gone, they'd be gone.
Insulating God from anything, any power, any working in His Own creation will never compute. God Is Directly Involved and Implicated in ALL things. There is no avoiding this logic if one adhere's to A Divine Creator.
Whatever IS, whatever that is, exists solely and ONLY, because of Him.
You were the anointed cherub who covers;
I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.15 You were perfect
in your ways
from the day you were created,
Till iniquity was found in you.
Ezekiel 28:14-15
JLB
Their names might have those meanings, but what you are missing is they were Gods elect in the beginning until they fell to Judaism for which they never repented of. That is why their names are not listed in Rev 7. Their fate has been sealed to that of the lake of fire. A dead unrepented man can not return back to God once they lay in the ground.The reasons for not noting Dan and Ephraim are not limited to what you propose. There are other sights to be had. For example, Dan, meaning "a judge." For those sealed, the judge and judgment has passed from them and is no longer needed. Ephraim, meaning "God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction," (Gen. 41:52) affliction is also passed from those sealed. There is also an immense amount of significance in these two tribes coming from the "bowels" of Joseph, one blessed above the other, Ephraim over Manasseh, by Jacob, "wittingly." In that action of Joseph it was essentially a repeat of what Jacob himself went through, coming before Isaac, his own "elder brother" getting a later blessing and Jacob stealing his from his elder "twin." I could write on this subject for a long long time. Even from Abraham's bosom came two similar children, the younger blessed, the elder, not. There are deeper meanings behind these matters. Much deeper.
Understanding that these can be long conversations of various observations, and such scriptural constructs, movements, directives, actions with the tribes and it's various members/components are all quite entirely interesting. It is even more interesting when studying the various movements and placements of the tribes in the O.T. Who was left on the wilderness side of the Jordan and who crossed over, the tribes of Joseph's sons being split to one side and the other, etc etc.
I find these matters greatly interesting and showing much more interesting things than just what you proposed above. It's not that simple.
Their names might have those meanings, but what you are missing is they were Gods elect
in the beginning until they fell to Judaism for which they never repented of. That is why their names are not listed in Rev 7. Their fate has been sealed to that of the lake of fire. A dead unrepented man can not return back to God once they lay in the ground.
I don't have any doubt that God created a PERFECT DEVIL, PERFECTLY DEVILISH in all his ways. I don't see anything perfect or "HOLY" as in God Perfect or Holy in that creation whatsoever.
Pure Heresy.
God didn't create Satan.
smaller what does your post #1569 have to do with the timing of when God takes away their sin.
God only takes away our sin when we repent of it, nothing more, nothing less as we come to Him by faith in that of Christ Jesus who is our deliverer redeemer.
It should be openly apparent to you by now that it is our call to condemn the powers of darkness. That is the power of the devil and his minions who do operate on/in the earth.
Just because "some" choose not to see it doesn't mean it's not a reality.
The devil was made to be a sinner, from his beginning. John 8:44. And yes, the devil IS involved with every sin of man, even in THOUGHT form. The adversary, that power of darkness, does work IN MAN and does work even in the minds of believers. Like it or not it is a hard fact of scripture.
IF you want to call anointed to be evil and have evil power and a wicked evil domain, then I'll concede to that anointing. It was no "HOLY" anointing, but an evil anointing.Ezekiel 28:14 and Isaiah 14:12-15 beg to differ as who we call Satan was created as an anoitned cherub n the beginning.
Were we still remaining here on earth, in flesh, our sin will be taken away in like manner to they, exactly how Phil. 3:21 shows us. Matt. 25 shows the same things.
Here is what is going to happen at "the end" of this wicked/evil age:
Matthew 13:41
The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
This is the cleansing of the temple, our bodies. From our current VILE state, CHANGED by His Sole Power, into His Perfect Body.
This is "our" HOPE of the Gospel.
God has also fully informed us of His Plan and His Intentions:
1 Corinthians 15:24
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
God is NOT counting sins against us. 2 Cor. 5:19
This does NOT mean they won't be counted.