Thread:EvilLamp/@comment-2175012-20160220163731/@comment-26884760-20160220172024

if you believe God values free will (and most do) then Satan can not be "Made of Evil" as that implies the heretical idea that God (or an Anti-God) forced Satan to be evil.. free will is the reason a truly omnipotent God can still allow evil to exist, because removal of free will would be even worse than the existence of said evil.. free will is God's most sacred law, so sacred that even God will not break it (with some rare exceptions, usually when creation is in dire need of His aid etc).

Even after the Day of Judgement it is hinted that we still have free will, so even in the "next universe" God's most sacred law is kept - being the idea of free will.

If God did not value free will we'd end up with the most extreme of the Maltheist God, in a Maltheist setting the concept of Satan does not apply as God in that setting is the supreme source of all evil (usually with either Lucifer or Jesus as His opponent (Lucifer being seen in a similar light to Titans that stole fire from the Greek gods to aid humanity and Jesus being seen as the Saviour who opposes the Demiurge (the old testament "God").

The exceptions are Islam and Judaism however, in Islam it is specifically stated Iblis asked Allah if he could tempt mankind until Judgement Day and Allah agreed : in Judaism the Devil is usually seen as an angel who still works for God, as a tester of faith.. these two beings can not be seen as CMs but it doesn't mean the Christian version can't count in some versions of the faith.