No, I think I just mean Lucifer. God created him as an angel and must've somehow given him the inherent potential to fall, or at least knew that he would fall. I can't accept that God didn't know what would happen and the Bible plainly states the He knows the end from the beginning.
Also, look how God uses evil for His purposes. He needed a fall-guy, a scapegoat. Many very sophisticated organizations do this very thing today as well. They will actually create a bad guy to do their dirty work. It is very effective and keeps their hands clean. (The government creates terrorist organizations and then declares war for the crimes they commit, but I didn't tell you that. Nobody will see this, will they?) Yet, I believe God's purposes are much more profound than that.
No, I don't believe He does, actually. I believe the devil creates them, or created the seed line at one time. Genesis 3:15? I have a long article written up about the Wheat and the Tares concept, but haven't published it because I can't find definitive information that they can be saved or not. I belive they cannot because they don't have the spiritual DNA to hear God's calling. Only His sheep, those with ears to hear, can hear his call. Isn't it interesting that sheep have ears, but snakes do not?Yes, I agree. That wasn't directed at you, personally.
Well, there are multiple very interesting verses throughout scripture that seem to state, or strongly imply, that some actually are created evil, and some even created for destruction.
God created him as an angel and must've somehow given him the inherent potential to fall.
Such as free will.
Lucifer made himself the devil, even as Adam made himself a transgressor. Both were created equally perfect, as a spirit and as a man, and both chose iniquity rather than obedience to God: the spirit was judged immediately so soon as the iniquity was found in him, and the man was judged only after the transgression committed, and even then appeared to be seeking a means of forgiveness by confession from the heart: godly sorrow and repentance.
or at least knew that he would fall.
Or at least He certainly knew with free will one would fall, but did not know, until He saw the iniquity in the one falling, even as he was thinking to rise up.
He knows the end from the beginning.
From the beginning of creation, before which there was no beginning at all, but only from everlasting before the beginning.
From the beginning He knows our ending, because He can search the very heart and mind from the beginning.
Also, look how God uses evil for His purposes. He needed a fall-guy, a scapegoat.
All things work together for the good to them that love Him, especially them that endure evil temptation and overcome it.
But, did He
need evil to come? or did He purpose to use it for His purposes,
if or when it came. God knew by creating beings with free will would certainly result in at least one of them choosing iniquity over obedience.
And so, in this way, God creates good beings with free will, and so
risks creating evil entering into them.
There is no great gain without risk?
I believe the devil creates them, or created the seed line at one time.
Now, the devil is that spirit of evil, and lying spirit, that God chooses to send for His own purposes to destroy them that would be destroyed by their own evil devices, including strong delusion to them that love not the truth.
Only His sheep, those with ears to hear, can hear his call. Isn't it interesting that sheep have ears, but snakes do not?
At least, after the transgression and the serpent's judgment, because he certainly had ears to hear Even speaking to him. And so, you are right to see the fact that snakes now have no ears to hear, but only senses movement nearby on his territory, and either flees or strikes without thought for which: evil without judgment.
and some even created for destruction.
The vessels made fit for destruction by the Potter are those souls searched from the womb, which God can do, as with Jacob and Esau. The two were struggling against one another in the womb of Rebecca, and she inquired of the Lord, and then the Lord spoke His judgment
after searching their hearts, that the older would serve the younger.
And we see in Scripture how it came to pass exactly as God prophesied from the womb.