[/QUOTE]on your first statement ... you don't know that for a fact.....
on your second......i guess it depends which version of the story you follow.....did he fall before or after adam and eve existed.....was for the coup attempt....or the attempt to seduce eve or was it because he would not bow down to adam.....
but you ask because you want to claim that the devil is evil and was the cause of adam and eves fall.....i say no...adam and eve were the cause of their fall....they had a choice....they chose poorly....
just going off of what you said, you said you don't believe in the devil
not saying adam and eve weren't faulty, only that according to the bible, they were not the first to know evil, evil necessarily had to exist for God to say, if you eat of the tree of life you will know evil. further, lucifer enticed them, hence, he must have been evil first because he purposefully went against God.