Very serious christians only. Important question.?

Question

I am a christian and I have been for many years. But there has been one question that has always haunted me. God knows everything that will happen. So didn't he know that the angel would betray God and turn into satan?

Answer 1

i have given up on trying to read God's mind. it's too tiring. i do know that He loves us and everything will work itself out in the end. besides God already won the battle with satan and so that tells me i have nothing to worry about.

Answer 2

When I first heard what I am about to tell you, I got mad, disagreed....But now I think the guy was right.
He said that although God does know everything, He does not control everything.
If He did, we all know it would be a perfect world. He has the power to, but He said He would give men (and women,) a choice, so He keeps His word.
Because He gave men a free will, they are free to sin, and in the process sometimes innocent people get hurt. Satan had a choice, obviously, he made a bad one.
Do you think, Jackie Boy, that choices were the evil that God created? Freedom? Was that the evil? Well, without freedom and choices we would all be mindless idiots serving Him because we didn't know any better. What kind of relationship would that be? He wouldn't get any more pleasure out of it than we would.
I serve Him because I want to, because He is the best thing that has ever happened in my life. And until you've experienced that love, J.B. you cannot be an authority on it. (I do assume you are curious, because you linger in the religion section, hoping to surprise us with the fact that God said that He created both good and evil. We already knew, it is in the Bible. Who else had the power?? )
I hope you come to know Him in a real and honest way someday. He is an awesome friend and father.
Sorry - to the dude who asked the question, for taking up your space with something added to the answer... forgive??? Thanks!

Answer 3

Satan does not exist. Nor is there a physical place called hell. You're right, God is omnipotent, all-knowing, eternal. There cannot be a Satan because this would imply that there is something that God cannot have or do or know. This is impossible. Satan and demons were created by early humans to explain the things they did not understand, such as disease, natural disasters etc. They had no other explanation before science for the existence of these things.

Answer 4

Actually, this is a question of God's omniscience. I've addressed this before. While it seems plain God CAN see the future how can He BE ALL-POWERFUL if He doesn't have the CHOICE to NOT KNOW it?

The Bible shows God needs to look, or choose to see the present to have knowledge of it, how much more then the future?

Psalms 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

Answer 5

This is a simple question and we are tempted to answer it simply by saying, "Why not? Why shouldn't God make people, angels if He knows they are going to sin?" But, such an answer isn't very satisfying. We could always say we don't know why God would do this since He is infinite and we are not and His ways are not our ways. But this answer also leaves us a bit empty. So, let's see if we can answer the question by analogy.
When parents have children they know that their kids will eventually act in sinful and even harmful ways. Yet, that doesn't stop them from having children. Why? First of all, it is worth the risk of their rebellion to bring them into the world. Second, the nature of love is to give and by having children the parents can better express their love. Third, just because the children will sin and rebel doesn't mean they shouldn't exist. Fourth, children have their own wills and can freely choose to rebel. Knowing this parents all over the world still have children. As you can see, analogies help us to make sense of thing, but they can't answer every question. That is why we must go to God's word for more insight.
The Bible tells us that God is love and that He sacrificed His Son on our behalf. The greatest act of love is to sacrifice one's own life for another (John 15:13). In a very real sense, God has performed the greatest act of love in sacrificing Himself (Remember, Jesus is God in flesh - John 1:1,14). Since God is love and love sacrifices, God has now manifested the greatest love by dying for us. In this, God is glorified. But, without sin in the world, there would be no way to demonstrate the greatest act of love -- which is self sacrifice. So, perhaps God allowed sin in the world so that He could demonstrate the greatest act of love.
Furthermore, in this self sacrifice God demonstrates the perfection of His holiness, the sinfulness of sin, the proof of God's righteousness, the victory over the evil one, and the guarantee of the saved with whom He can shed His love and glory forever. In this, God is glorified.
We could come up with a variety of possible reasons why God made people knowing they would sin and we probably can never fully answer it. But, knowing that they would sin is no reason that God shouldn't make them, especially if His plan includes the acts of sinners so that others would be redeemed.

Answer 6

God is omniscient. We (humans & angels) have free will, options, choices. I think God hopes that we'll make the right ones. I think he might have just been hoping that when time came to it Satan would stay with Him and follow His teachings.

Haven't you felt that before? You know someone will make the wrong choice but you hope so whole heartedly, because you love them so much, that they'll think straight and make the right choice? I think God feels like that all the time with us.

Stick with Him!

Answer 7

Yes, He knew. It's all part of His plan.
Remember, in the Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe...the scene where Aslan said if the Snow Queen knew that there was a deeper magic at work, she'd not have killed Aslan?
It's the same with G-d. Satan is the most obedient servant G-d has!

Answer 8

Mostly Pepsi theology so far. Logos taught that father-mother did not make anything and do not interfere with the universes or the will of their daughters/sons (AEONS). This is the way finite is emanated from infinite (it's how reality is begotten). So, finite is not perfect. What you call "Satan" is the personification of the laws of physics of the material universe. So, father-mother didn't know (since infinite doesn't think), that's why they emanate sons/daughters, to think, thus imperfection, thus good/evil.

Answer 9

Yes, He knew it would happen just like He knows every sin you or I will commit. But the greatest gift He gave us, next to life itself, is the power to direct our own life--the right to make our own choices. In order for us to grow and progress, we have to make choices and learn from mistakes. In order for there to be choices, there has to be opposition--good and evil, etc. When Satan (Lucifer) rebelled and was thrown out of heaven, that produced the oposition--the evil choice as opposed to the good choice. With this condition, we have the ability to choose which we want to follow and thereby make progress toward returning to the presence of God--which is the ultimate goal.

Answer 10

Yes he did know, but the result would remain the same no matter what, the angel would still be Satan. what matters most is that Jesus was sent to protect us from the evil one

Answer 11

Hell is the state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God, reserved for people who refuse by using their very very own loose option to have faith and be switched over from sin, even to the top of their lives.All sins are forgivable which contain blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. the only sin(s) which will deliver you to hell is a grave infraction of the regulation of God that destroys the divine life contained in the soul of the sinner, constituting a turn faraway from God. For this variety of sin to be committed, 3 circumstances would desire to be present day : (a million) Grave rely. (2) finished expertise of the Evil of the Act. (3) finished Consent of the will. somebody who does not have faith in God and who's a solid man or woman does not quickly visit hell. basically God can choose. There are no longer diverse stages of Hell. there is not any lake of fireplace. Your Bibles are packed with inaccuracies.