Since God created Lucifer, isn’t He really responsible for sin?

Not at all. God created Lucifer a perfect, sinless angel. Lucifer made a devil of himself. Freedom to choose is a cornerstone principle of God’s government. The Lord knew Lucifer would sin when He created him. If at that point God had refused to create him, He would have been giving up that prime principle of free choice.

So knowing full well what Lucifer would do, God still created him. The same facts apply to the creation of Adam and Eve. And, closer to home, these facts apply to you and me. God knows before we are born how we will live, but even so, He permits us to live and to choose whether to endorse His government or Satan’s. God is willing to be misjudged, falsely accused, and blamed for ages, while taking the time to allow every person to freely choose whom he or she will follow.

Only a loving God would risk granting full freedom for all. This glorious, crucial gift of freedom could come only from a just, open, and loving being. It is an honor and joy to serve such a Lord and friend. Freely choosing to follow the Lord leads to greater freedom. “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage” (Galatians 5:1). It is God’s desire to set us free so that we are no longer “slaves of sin” (Romans 6:6).

The sin problem will soon end. John said, “Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away” (Revelation 21:1). In the beginning, everything was “very good” (Genesis 1:31). Now “the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one” (1 John 5:19). Soon Earth will be restored to God’s original plan. Until then, people everywhere are choosing to serve God or Satan. Use your fantastic, God-given freedom to choose to serve the Lord.

Key Bible Texts

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. (Ezekiel 28:15 KJV)