Here is my quick understanding of the main points of your religion. If i am wrong do not just say that i am an idiot, please back up your response with a logical argument from your own understanding NOT SCRIPTURE!
God loves us. God banishes Satan to live on the same planet as us and gives him the ability to corrupt us and drag us to hell. God sacrifices himself so that if you believe in him and do what it says in a book that was written by men you will be spared and satan will not get you. God can only save less than 35% of his creations. It doesnt matter how good of a person you are, if you dont believe in the holy book, you will burn in hell for eternity. But he loves us all....
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24992699 GOD did not send Satan to earth to send us to Hell....
He created us for a relationship with him, Satan still had free will to roam....
But let's go with what you just said for a minute...
Say GOD just obliterated Satan then created us and we never knew that evil or dis-obedience existed what would of that done to the *Balance* of the Universe?
Remember Satan had already deceived 1/3 of GOD's divine angels to follow him....
So now before we were created there was an im-balance in the universe because of the rebellion...
GOD first had to show the Created beings in the Universe what rebellion created...Remember GOD is a GOD of love and wisdom, he expects all of his creation to understand his wisdom because in that we find his Eternal Love for what he created...
There is an animated Youtube Video called the Cosmic Conflict, it gives you a good analogy of how EVIL came to be..
Here is part one
THE ORIGIN OF EVIL [
link to www.youtube.com]
