Another way to phrase this is to ask whether it's possible for a purely good entity has the facility to create evil?

I think they made the bible as confusing as possible, because they don't want you to actually understand it, it's like a crap insurance policy, they just want to baffle you with bullshit and get your money. They don't want people who think for themselves, they just want the sort of people who will eagerly lap up any bullshit they are fed. They just want mindless loyalty.

God pities him like a fool

Because neither of them exist, except in those minds that have decided to make them real.

The devil represents evil .But in effect Evil is a human vice,we have a choice to be good or evil. It is only our free will that decides if an evil act or good act is carried out. Without evil you have no good,or at least a good that you could not define, since veryone would be running around doing good deeds...sound great doesn't it. But would it be great?
We would be just a bunch of contented animals running round helping one another,in essence we would be like any dumb animal, for example a cow.
A cow doesnt worry about good or evil it just eats,sleeps and farts. Would that life appeal to you?Or would you prefer to be as you are, undertstanding the difference between good and evil?If that is the case then evil is necessary and we do in fact need a Devil.God understands this.
This is a logical argument put forward by Taoism.

There are some options:
A) God doesn't want to destroy the devil
B) God is not able to destroy the devil
C) God and the devil don't exist.

I go for C haha

God created evil so why would the twit destroy it's so-called ring leader.

God isn't real and the devil isn't either. Christians know prayer doesn't work. They keep believing it does. I told a Christian to pray for money. They knew that would not work.

1. He is a great antagonist
2. He isn't actual bad. If he was, why would he trap and puinsh the wicked?/sound more like a prison Warden. Wouldn't he reward bad and punish the good? Hell would be one long after party.
3. According to my bible classes he was the one that encouraged humankind to seek.knowledge and not live in ignorance. This was bad how???

The story of Job is all about god and the devil betting on what would happen if they ducked dudes life up. God and Satan go way back.

My theory is that the devil isn't evil. I read the history of the bible and Constantines' Council had political leanings no different than today, and pacifying the population was part of that. Nothing is more pacifying than someone to blame, a scapegoat. But what if Lucifer's job is to tempt people to sin and resisting is the spiritual equivalence of exercise for the soul. The more you don't yield to temptation, the stronger you are spiritually, and the hornier you are physically.
Most religions have a yin-yang relationship of forces, necessary for balance. Abrahamic religions for some reason needed a bad guy.

there's no logic to the way religious people think. The human mind is a funny organ and when it gets brainwashed with religion is very hard to change especially when it happens to young people. I believe only young people that realize religion is brainwashing understand there is no God.. And sometimes this will happen with those people. From what I understand USA becoming less religious.

The Devil keeps God and Religion in business