Bible Question:
I read in Gen. 1:31 "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good." Everything God created was very good. There was nothing bad about anything He created. I believe that! I also believe God created Lucifer and God didn't create Lucifer into a sinner. However the the first sin is attributed to Lucifer. So what EXACTLY caused Lucifer to commit the first sin, who later tempted Adam and Eve to sin, since we know that God is not the originator of sin and does not tempt anyone? How did the temptation of Lucifer come about or originate? James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: |
Bible Answer: I think you already know the answer but for one reason or another not willing to admit you know it :-) Some verses you may want to look at are these: Psalm 115:3 But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases Obviously, if God is sovereign, then it follows there's nothing in the universe that happens outside of God's will, including the sins of some angels and all men (save Christ alone) and He does whatsoever He pleases including the foreordination of sin. The Bible does not hide this simple truth and it is rather strange why Christians in this age are shy of some of this Biblical truth. Another Psalm says: "Whatever the LORD pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all deep places." (136:6) If it did not please the Lord and if He did not foreordain Satan's sin as well as Adam's, then it follows that what God did not will had actually happened and therefore there's some other force in the universe superior to God or at least outside of His control. But such is not the God of the Bible. The God of the Bible, according to Daniel 4:35 "...doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?" After Biblical data is examined (not as briefly as I did here though) it is clear that: 1) whatever happens in the universe happens because God wills it so 2) it is so happened that some angels and all men (save Christ) sinned, Therefore, it was God's will that (2) happened. However, the erroneous conclusion so often put forth is because (1) and (2) are true, therefore God is the author of sin, but clearly such a conclusion just does not follow and therefore false. One simply cannot construct a sound Biblical argument to arrive at the conclusion that God is the author of sin. Just because God the Father willed that His Son be crucified does not make the Father responsible for His Son's crucifixion. Why God does what He does invokes immidiately that passage from Daniel 4 "none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?" Remember Deut 29:29? Hope this clarifies the matter a little :-) |