Dear One 2 question,
Yes to both questions.
So God caused Lucifer to become His adversary?
Isa 54:15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. 16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Ecc 7:13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Job 26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
Prov 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Satan masquerades as Christ and deceives the church. When a babe in Christ falls prey to Satan, they are experiencing the Day of Evil and are being governed by the spirit of anti-Christ. Christ "hath made all things for himself" which includes Satan being mankind's waster and destroyer. If God did not create Satan to be His adversary, mankind would not be able to experience their Day of Evil.
While the Creator didn't give the first 2 humans the ability to choose to disobey?
I'm not sure I understand your question but I'll try the best I can.
Here is what God did to cause Adam and Eve to sin:
God created Adam and Eve to be spiritually marred. The flaw in their spiritual makeup was that it was weak. Because it was weak, they quickly developed a carnal mind that put their own needs and desires above obeying their Creator. This lead them to sin.
Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Rom 5:6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food (LUST OF THE FLESH), and that it was pleasant to the eyes (LUST OF THE EYES), and a tree to be desired to make one wise (PRIDE OF LIFE), she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
1John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Satan was even placed in the Garden of Eden to provide the temptation and the deception so that Adam and Eve would disobey God.
Adam and Eve's sin did not happen by chance or by their supposed free will ability to choose, it happened because God directed their steps so that they would sin.
Prov 16:9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
Prov 20:24 Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
Jer 10:23 I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.
Nothing in God's creation happens by chance or by mankind's supposed free will ability. Everything happens because God wills it to happen, plans it to happen, speaks it to happen and then causes it to happen.
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Isa 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Dan 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of the heavens, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Joe
