Why when the very first time humans are in error? God curses them,flood them,blow up cities,sends plagues and famine and increases labor pains etc....But the devil get no punishment! As a matter of fact God sicks the Devil on Job...Why?Why?Why?
2006-06-05 14:56:00 · 11 answers · asked by Messenger 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible says the devil was cast from heaven. Apparently his doom is withheld at the moment because he had the power over death and thus everyone who dies.
Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Now that his power has been taken however, his doom is rapidly approaching and is ceased only so more people can come to find eternal life through Jesus.
Revelation 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
As for Job, God didn't send Satan after him, but let Satan have his way, perhaps because Satan had not yet fallen from heaven yet. After all, Job is likely the first book of the Bible to have been written.
2006-06-05 15:03:31 · answer #1 · answered by jzyehoshua1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we have to remember that the Bible was written by people in ancient times trying to explain the ancient questions of life, "how did we get here?" "Who created the earth?" "What is the origin of things?" They probably had oral stories about a great flood, so they ask, what's that about? So a tradition grows about why a flood, etc...to them, the world they knew was the entire world.
Do we really think God would kill a man's whole family to test his faithfulness? The story of Job was an answer to the question "why do bad things happen to righteous people?" Up until Job was written people thought that if you were bad, you were punished, if you were good you were rewarded.
We can't read the Bible literally, we can't read it as history. It doesn't make sense.
So keep asking good questions, it's good to ask questions of the Bible, and of faith. Don't let anyone tell you blind faith is strong faith.
2006-06-05 15:10:57 · answer #2 · answered by keri gee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-06 10:02:57 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a logical explanation for floods.
There is a logical explanation for sickness.
There is a logical explanation for famine.
There is a logical explanation for labor pains.
I've never seen or heard of an entire city suddenly blowing up, are you talking about volcanoes? There is a logical explanation for volcanoes.
Neither god nor the devil exist
2006-06-05 15:12:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People always need a reason for why things happen. The good old bumper sticker saying sums it up Shi* Happens. It's not God or the Devil.
2006-06-05 15:22:42 · answer #5 · answered by mia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god does not sick the devil on any one because of thier sin he can and sometimes does pull his protection and who in the world told you god was a wimp or did you come up with that bright dedution your own self.you know very little about god please talk about thing you do know or ask questions that are a little intellegent
2006-06-05 15:06:47 · answer #6 · answered by moe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever heard of free will? Adam and Eve had a choice to eat the forbidden fruit, and all others had the choice to do bad things just as we have the choice to do bad things and good things.
2006-06-05 15:32:18 · answer #7 · answered by akknaley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The devil's punishment is knowing what might have been.
2006-06-10 17:50:56 · answer #8 · answered by ikwya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because God is all knowing, and we are not. there is a reason for everything God does, whether we know it or not. our job isn't to judge God.
2006-06-05 15:04:25 · answer #9 · answered by turntable 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no god there is no devil there is no heven there is no hell
its all just a story and a piss poor one at that
2006-06-05 15:40:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋