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"Please....If God created everything than he also created temptation, Satan and all the ways man can go astray. You even state he knew exactly what was going to happen.
If God created us in a way that could make us tempted than of course he planted the temptation. How could he not? He created it in your words."
I dunno -- I'm having trouble understanding your position on this. I understand what you are saying, but not why you cannot see that while God created man and gave him free will, Adam was created sinless and perfect. God also created all the angels, including Satan, the highest and most powerful of all the angels, but like man, Satan was not evil when God created him -- indeed, he was perfect, without evil or sin, just like Adam was perfect and without sin.
God is perfect, including the fact that He is incredibly Holy -- He is incapable of sin or evil. God is never the author of temptation or any form of sin or evil:
James 1:13-16
"Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren."
God is omniscient, knowing the end of everything from the beginning. He knew before He began creation everything that would happen in all the Universe for all time -- we call that the foreknowledge of God. God is also omnipotent, all powerful -- there is nothing that He cannot do. He is only constrained by the limits of His own nature, so that He cannot do anything frivolous or evil or sinful. God is Sovereign in all things. As Creator, He has the absolute authority to intervene in His creation to do whatever He desires.
So God knows everything, He is all powerful, and He is totally Sovereign in all that is. He created the Universe and all that was in it in its original, perfect state. Does that mean He is the author of temptation, sin, and evil?? Not at all, because God is also utterly Holy. He cannot sin and does not tempt anyone to do sin in any way.
So where does temptation, sin, and evil come from?? God has given man (and the angels) free will -- the ability to choose whether to do good (believe in, obey, and trust God) or to do evil, or sin (disobey God, rebel against God). All too often, man makes the wrong choice and chooses to do what is wrong in the sight of God, but God in no way encourages him to make that wrong choice.
Man has three primary sources of temptation, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. The lust of the flesh encompasses all our passions that make us "feel good". The lust of the eye involves all those things such as greed and envy. The pride of life is primarily the ego of man. Those sources of sin are in turn stoked by two main influences -- Satan, and the world (greek "cosmos").
Satan is has a number of titles in Scripture, but one of them is "the tempter", and in that role he temps us to do evil, to commit sin. His primary goal is to disrupt and thwart God's Plan and God's people. He is capable of indwelling unsaved humans, or most often, he can send his underlings, fallen angels who Scripture refers to as "demons", to do the job for him. He can also come against and influence the saved -- God's people -- when they are not vigilant or they give him an opening by unconfessed sin in their lives.
Satan is nothing like he is portrayed in movies and cartoons. Scripture says he comes as an angel of light. He he very persuasive and his words seem wise. He often is very subtle in his attempts to make us sin, and he can bring misfortune and evil into our lives. Satan loves religion -- all religions except Biblical Christianity, which he hates. All other forms of religion lead to hell, so that is why he loves them. He especially loves the counterfeit church, as found in the liberal churches who reject Scripture as the word of God and Jesus as the only way to salvation and forgiveness of sin.
The world is our society as a whole, which is controlled by Satan (the Prince of this Earth). The world is dominated by human "wisdom", which is antithetical to God's wisdom, and it continuously encourages people to sin against God, often in a subtle way, just as Satan comes at us.
I hope that helps explain what Scripture has to say about this subject. Sorry about the length, but I was trying to make everything more clear.
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