“Say What?!”

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Lucifer was created perfect by God.  What is perfect?  If Lucifer can fall from perfection in the standard that God sets, can God also fall?  Job, another being of perfection, was consumed by the workings of Lucifer, even when he didn’t know about him.

 

Do good and evil exist?  No man is free from sin.  Where do I find answers in the book of tainted writers?

 

Sincerely, A Lot On My Mind

Dear A Lot On My Mind,

Some questions are worded a bit like one giant tangent. We have to break this down into parts to give you a solid answer.

1. The Bible isn’t a book by tainted writers. The Bible is divinely inspired by God Himself (1 Cor 2:12-13). See this post for a detailed answer to that question.
2. Job wasn’t consumed by Satan (I’m assuming you mean Satan because ‘Lucifer’ isn’t a name used in the Bible). Job was tempted by Satan (Job 2:6-7). Job was a godly and righteous man, not sinless, but faithful and upright (Job 2:3).
3. We don’t know Satan’s origins, but it is fair to assume He was created by God because everything was created by God (Col 1:16). Since God only does good and calls christians to imitate Him (3 Jhn 1:11), Satan must have at some point stopped being the good creation that God had intended for him to be. This isn’t too far of a stretch because the Bible talks about how some angels that were created for good, fell away from God (2 Pet 2:4). Apparently the angels have, or had, at some point the ability to choose between being evil and good.
4. “What is perfect?” Perfect means complete or whole. When something is perfect, that means it is as it was intended to be. When God made man, He made us perfect (Gen 1:31), and part of that perfection was the ability to choose between right and wrong. The fact that we often choose to do the wrong thing doesn’t mean we weren’t created the way God intended.
5. God cannot fall or fail. He promises that He will never change from being good (Jas 1:17).
6. Yes, good and evil exist. As we learn from the Scriptures, we get better and better at discerning between good and evil (Heb 5:14).

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