pressingheaven:

Let me start with a disclaimer: Satan has made himself an enemy of God. God does not condone the works of Satan; He hates the works of Satan. God is not “in cahoots” with Satan. 

Despite all these things, God loves Satan, even though he is against His Creator (which reminds me of many humans, quite frankly). God created Satan. He does not regret or dread His creations (which is largely the reason I believe it was not God who sent the Flood). God makes no mistakes.

I could be misquoting, but I believe it was C.S. Lewis who said something along the lines of that the reason God does not annihilate (cease his very existence) Satan shows that He loves him. God sees and loves the intrinsic value within Satan with which he was created. To say otherwise is to say God created something evil. But He didn’t. God is good all the time.

Evil, then, is a creation of the created. God is omnipresent, therefore evil cannot be the absence of good, although it could be the illusion of the absence of good.

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