by jimwalton » Thu Feb 09, 2017 1:24 pm
"Lucifer" was derived from the Latin version of Isaiah 14.12 as the term for "morning star" (Heb. helel, Latin "luciferus"). Most scholars now feel this is not a passage about Satan, but about the king of Babylon. In the Old Testament, Satan is a functionary of God. He is not seen as inherently evil, but he is an antagonist, an adversary. In the NT, Satan is a deceiver (also antagonist, adversary) of the church, but still not portrayed as an enemy of God. He is distinctly portrayed as an enemy of God's people (and in that sense indirectly an enemy), but still under God's sovereign authority (He can only do what God has allowed him to do). He's not strong enough and doesn't rank high enough to qualify as an enemy of God. When God deals with him, it's of no more consequence than shooting fish in a bucket. Satan's power is over life here on earth, but against God he's less than a mosquito on the arm.
Satan is not one of God's minions, doing his dirty work. In the NT he's not one of God's functionaries (he opposes the work of God), but everything he does is still folded into God's plans.
So your premises sort of fall apart.
"God created Lucifer even though he knew what he would eventually do because He knows everything." Uh, yes, but you are implying that God created evil or an evil being, but that may not wash. Satan was not an evil being in the OT, and in our NT understanding, well, I already explained.
"So Lucifer throws a rebellion." Uh, no proof of this. As I said, Isaiah 14 probably doesn't refer to Satan. The Bible doesn't tell us how Satan got started in what he does, what kind of spiritual being he is, or how he got to be that kind of spiritual being.
"takes a bunch of angels to the world..." Again, the origin of demons is also unknown. Again, there is speculation (from study) that the demons are amoral. They are chaotic spiritual beings. In the same sense that we would regard wolves and bears as destructive but not evil, so possibly are the demons. They have negative and destructive effects, but so do earthquakes (and yet earthquakes are amoral). Biblically speaking, demons are in a "non-order" category. They are forces (beings) of non-order (like the sea, in mythology).
"...only to tempt God's precious creation that is the mankind to make us do things that will condemn us to hell." I don't think the Bible says anything about the demons tempting people. Satan deceives people. But temptation comes from our own hearts and our own desires (James 1.14).
I hope this is an explanation that will motivate more discussion. But it seems you are already leaning towards God's cruelty and unfairness, and your leaning, unfortunately, may be the consequence of a bucketload of misunderstandings and distortions.