LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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Lucifer vs. Satan

To the editor:

In response to Thane M. Schwartz’s letter to the editor, in which he concluded, “God also made Satan,” please allow me to make a gentle correction.

God did not make Satan. God made Lucifer, a beautiful and perfect anointed cherub.

By Lucifer’s own will he openly defied God. So, God called him Satan and cast him and all who followed him out of heaven.

To be clear, God does not make evil.

Dianne Novak
Tampa