DID MAN GET HERE BY EVOLUTION OR BY CREATION? 146 creature, speaking of him as "the original serpent." He is clearly identified as being Satan the Devil. Here, then, is man's hated enemy and the one chiefly responsible for the earth-wide spread of wickedness.
SUCCUMBED !PO WRONG IDEAS
Obviously, the God 'whose activity is perfect' would not deliberately bring into existence a wicked creature. (Deuteronomy 32: 4) That would be contrary to his love for righteousness. -Psalms 5:46; 15:1,2. The invisible creature that introduced rebellion to Adam and Eve was perfect, without defect, but, like Adam and Eve, he was a free moral agent, able to choose good or bad. It was by his entertaining a wrong desire that he chose a course of wickedness. For example, a person in someone else's home may see a watch lying on a table. The possibility of his picking that watch up and putting it into his pocket is evident, but he may not wen consider it; or, if the idea does suggest itself, he may immediately dismiss it. But if he retains the idea and allows a wrong desire to develop and grow, the process toward wrongdoing will have been initiated, and he may well commit the wicked act of stealing. The same process caused a perfect spirit creature to become Satan the Devil. The possibility of using the human pair for his own purposes rather than that indicated by God was there. He not only considered it but also failed to dismiss it from his mind. He entertained this wrong desire and it led to wrongdoing, sin. So he made himself the chief force for wickedness. God was not responsible for the course he chose.