Let us challenge your thought trait for one moment.
If God is good and Satan Evil.
Then why isn't Satan responsible for the Evil?
Going on the revelation: " Satan is the Father of all lies" Why do you think mankind believe so many different things and are often at loggerheads with each other?
He was not such in Tanakh. That is later Christian mythology, - written AFTER Jesus' death.
Look at Satan the serpent for a moment.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
The lie was what mislead Eve to disobey God. She had the choice to believe God who had been good to her and provided for her or a serpent who only had to lie.
Christians turned the Serpent into Satan. If Satan was meant - they would have used that name.
Also - this serpent was condemned to be a real serpent on the ground for the rest of his life. That is obviously not your Satan idea.
What do you believe was the Serpents intent? Did what he tell her bring her harm or good?
The serpent has usually meant knowledge. My guess is that the "Nachash/Serpent" - whom we are told was part of the first animals creation, - probably represents the KNOWLEDGE in the religions around them, - that they considered evil, or not in-line with God. The Nachash/serpent is just representing the OTHER religions, such as the Babylonian, - with the new religion represented by a "special people" Adam and Chavvah being the story "First" of that line, from God, and following God's Laws.
"Ancient
Mesopotamians and
Semites believed that snakes were immortal because they could infinitely shed their skin and appear forever youthful, appearing in a fresh guise every time. The
Sumerians worshipped a serpent god or goddess named
Ningishzida, an ancestor of
Gilgamesh. Before the arrival of the
Israelites, snake cults were well established in
Canaan in the
Bronze Age, for archaeologists have uncovered serpent cult objects in Bronze Age strata at several pre-Israelite cities in Canaan: two at
Megiddo, one at
Gezer, one in the
sanctum sanctorum of the Area H temple at
Hazor, and two at
Shechem.
In the surrounding region, serpent cult objects figured in other cultures. A late Bronze Age
Hittite shrine in northern Syria contained a bronze statue of a god holding a serpent in one hand and a staff in the other. In sixth-century Babylon a pair of bronze serpents flanked each of the four doorways of the temple of
Esagila. At the Babylonian New Year's festival, the priest was to commission from a woodworker, a metalworker, and a goldsmith two images, one of which "shall hold in its left hand a snake of cedar, raising its right [hand] to the god
Nabu". At the tell of Tepe Gawra, at least seventeen Early Bronze Age
Assyrian bronze serpents were recovered. ...
" Snake worship - Wikipedia
We see the Serpent/Satan/Devil has never been on the side of good or wanted good for man.
So I can ask the question based on knowledge that good and evil cannot come from the same root cause. Just as day and night cannot exist together but each must reign separately one after the other.
So now I have accounted for what I have previously said using the basis for those things. Now account for circular reasoning and why Satan would not be a cause.
Your religion claims YHVH created everything, - thus also creating evil, - or it would not have been there in the Beginnings story, to be used
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