If God created everything and God hated sin, why would he create the devil?

God did not create the devil as he is.

If you read the first chapter of Genesis, you see that there are things that are seemingly uncreated, and things that just seem to appear. The darkness does not appear to be created, for example - it just is.

So it's not necessarily a valid assumption to assume God created everything. He started and fashioned everything, and allows things to progress to a new/different creation, but He did not "create" everything. He did not create sin. He allows for free will, and sin can follow as a consequence of that.

The devil is another example of this principle. He started out as an angel in heaven pleasing to God and sinless, but when he rejected God and heaven, he turned into a new creation - his own due to his rejection of God.

God's hatred of sin has nothing to do with it, but the attachment of sin and the devil is a natural result of rejecting God. Sin is not tolerated by God, so everything sinful is out of his light and heaven. The devil chose this lightless and sinful existence by rejecting God - so sin really is all he has.

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Awesome post, hard to improve on this
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by Joshua Zambrano on February 1st, 2006
This speaks to me as being a good truth that is as easy to understand such a complex situation...but then too..with God the most complex of situations can become beautifully clear in reality.
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by Redhawk on May 8th, 2009

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