DAY 75: SINCE GOD IS GOOD AND LOVING, WHY DID HE CREATE SATAN? The answer is that Satan started out as one of God’s magnificent, created angels that was actually put at the lofty level of an angelic cherub. But Scripture describes how he used the free will God gave him to became the first being responsible for the first sin. So, God did not create the one now known as Satan. Instead, our Lord fashioned a beautiful cherub angel that made the decision to sin. Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 inform us about the fall of Satan, originally a beautiful and blameless creature in all his splendor, until wickedness was found—in—him. Satan is the one responsible for evil. God created a wonderful angel, gave him free choice, and with it that angel selfishly chose to become the wicked Satan, who was motivated by his desire to more greatly exalt himself. The spread of his decision to sin is what we must deal with still today.