Out of necessity the angels and now man were given free will, the ability to think and reason, to make choices.
Scripture teaches us that Angels were the first to inhabit the Earth even before man and the Cherub Lucifer was appointed as one of Gods highest creations to look after the Earth. Lucifer rebelled against God and used deception to convince one third of all the Angels to rebel with him against God. God kicked him out of heaven and locked the doors to him and his Angels who committed evil and rebelled. He renamed him Satan.
The holy angels and archangels including this super cherub Lucifer of necessity were endowed with ability to think, to reason, to form attitudes, and to make choices and decisions. As explained previously, God started this Lucifer out with everything going for him. He sealed up the sum of wisdom, beauty and perfection. He was perfect in all his ways from the instant he was created until iniquity rebellion, lawlessness was found in him (Ezek. 28:15).
At that very foundation of Satans world it was also decreed (Heb. 9:27) that God had appointed that all humans should die once, and after that, by resurrection from the dead, would come the judgment.Meanwhile mankind as a whole would not as yet be brought to judgment neither condemned nor saved. It was at that time decided that as in Adam all humans should die, so in Christ the same all should be brought back to life by a resurrection to judgment (I Cor. 15:22). This very resurrection of all who died in Adam has been a mystery to the whole world deceived by Satan. Even today traditional Christianity celebrates the resurrection of Jesus on the pagan Easter every spring, but says nothing about the future resurrection of the billions who have died in Adam.
Human life is animal existence but with human spirit empowering the brain with intellect. The human spirit in man makes possible the union with the Holy Spirit and mind and immortality of God. When mortal man dies, the body reverts to dust, and the spirit returns to God.
The understanding of many Christians into what a soul actually is, is incorrect and is a mistranslation from the Hebrew into English. The "soul" is simply your mortal flesh and blood body that can die. It is the "spirit" that lives on.
The human spirit can also die in what is known as the second death. This would be complete and utter death and being erased completely. It is the human spirit that can be resurrected for judgement or inheritance of the Kingdom of God through Jesus Christ that upon combining with Gods spirit we inherit eternal life.
Satan has blinded the entire world from seeing. Realize what a deceived traditional Christianity has not understood. This is of supreme importance! The world of traditional Christianity has been deceived into supposed Christian teaching of the immortality of the soul, of those who profess Jesus going immediately upon death into a heaven of eternal idleness, freedom from responsibility and bliss in ease and laziness; in those who fail to accept Jesus going at death to a definite place of eternal continuous burning fire called hell where they shriek and scream in indescribable pain and agony forever and ever without hope. The teaching has been that man is an immortal soul and already has eternal life. It denies (Rom. 6:23) that the penalty for sin is death and that man can have eternal life only as the gift of God.
The false traditional Christianity teaching might be compared to taking a one-way railroad trip. This trip is your lifes journey. At the end of the line a switch is automatically set that will send you straight to a lasting burning hell of indescribable pain and torture. But if, at any time during lifes journey, you profess to accept Christ, the switch at the end of the line, at that point, is turned to shoot you straight to heaven.
In doctrine after doctrine they have believed and taught the diametric opposite of the truths plainly revealed in the Bible. They have taught Satans first lie that man is an immortal soul.
Scripture plainly reveals that when you die you are dead. According to the Bible, the dead dont hear anything, see anything, think anything or know anything. The dead have absolutely no awareness of any kind:
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they anymore a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished . . . (Eccl. 9:5-6).
The Bibles message is clear on this point. Death is death beyond any shadow of doubt. The apostle Paul wrote that the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23). Death, by definition, is the absence of life not just separation from God.
Deceived Christians taught, and still teach, that now is the only day of salvation, and that their counterfeit salvation of just accepting Jesus Christ, without the repentance of turning from sin and the obeying of Gods law, would send people as immortal souls immediately to heaven upon death.
Satan has blinded the minds of those of traditional Christianity to the fact that God closed off the tree of life until the glorified Jesus Christ comes in supreme power and glory to restore the government of God over the whole earth. It was decreed, I repeat, that it was appointed to humans once to die, and after death is to come the resurrection to judgment (Heb. 9:27). Meanwhile the world of Adam is not being judged, though in the final judgment all shall be held to account for their sins.
Jesus said plainly, No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him . . . (John 6:44). The Church is merely the first-fruits of salvation. Those who, as Jesus did, overcome Satan, their own selves and sin (the called, that is), will sit with Christ in his throne when he comes to set up the kingdom of God and to restore the government of God, which the former Lucifer rejected and ceased to administer! Jesus said, No man can come to me, except the Father . . . draw him . . . (John 6:44). No man CAN come to Christ otherwise! But the Church is merely the first harvest.
Lucifer had been trained and was thoroughly experienced in administration of the government of God at the very throne of the endless universe! He was one of the two cherubs whose wings covered the throne of God the most high (Ezek. 28:14; Ex. 25:20).
He was created gloriously beautiful perfect in beauty, but he allowed vanity to seize him. Then he turned to erroneous reasoning. Gods law the basis of Gods government is the way of love outgoing concern in obedience, humility and worship the way of giving, sharing, helping, cooperating. He reasoned that competition would be better than cooperation. It would be an incentive to excel, to try harder, to accomplish. There would be more pleasure in serving self and more enjoyment.
He turned against Gods law of love. He became jealous of God, envious, and resentful against God. He allowed lust and greed to fill him, and he became bitter. This inspired a spirit of violence! He deliberately became his Makers adversary and enemy. That was his choice, not Gods yet allowed by God! God changed the adversarys name to what he became, Satan the devil Satan means adversary, competitor, enemy.
Satan directed his supernatural powers henceforth to evil. He became bitter not only against God, but against Gods law. He used his subtle wiles of deception to lead the angels under him into disloyalty, rebellion and revolt against the Creator and finally into a war of aggression and violence to attempt to depose God and seize the throne of the universe.
Their penalty (they are still awaiting final judgment up to now) was disqualification forfeiture of their grand opportunity, perversion of mind, and a colossal earth wide cataclysm of destruction wreaked upon this earth. As a result, the earth came to the condition briefly described in Genesis 1:2. Lucifer was created a perfect bringer of light. Now he became author of darkness, error, confusion and evil. So the rebellion of angels that sinned (II Pet. 2:4-6; Jude 6-7; Isa.14:l2-l5; Ezek. 28:12-17) brought this extreme cataclysm to the earth.
How must God have looked at this situation after the colossal debacle of Lucifer and the angels that sinned? Lucifer was created the most perfect in beauty, mentality, knowledge, power, intellect and wisdom within the almighty power of God to create in a being, with power to think, reason, make choices and decisions on his own. God knew that no higher, more perfect being could be created as an initial creation.
So Lucifer turned to rebellion and iniquity, disobeying G-d created hell and was renamed Satan.
If you believe that G-d killed his son Jesus, or that G-d created hell, then I believe you misunderstand scripture. G-d does not create evil or anything in a state of decay, and Im pretty sure it was Roman soldiers who killed Jesus in the flesh.