I mean, didn't he create him? Do any of them exist? I personally don't believe but what's YOUR opinion?
2006-06-27 16:23:20 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
there is nothing for god to get rid of.
2006-06-27 16:53:55 · answer #1 · answered by Thom Thumb 6 · 5⤊ 8⤋
If the equation is two+2=4, then there is not any longer something that needs to get replaced or destroyed. yet when the 4 believes it really is a 5, there is not any individual that would learn about the faux conception except for the 4. God sees what He created, countless religious perfection. it really is the human innovations that thinks it really is a 5, besides the undeniable fact that it really is in truth a 4. countless perfection won't be able to see or maybe conflict the devil (conception in real evil, a 2d means to God) because it become by no skill created spiritually.
2016-11-15 08:36:16 · answer #2 · answered by cathell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did not create Satan. HE created Lucifer, an Arch Angel. Lucifer was a great angel with great beauty and musical talent and was admire by many angels. Because of the admiration that he got, his head swell. So he lead a rebellion with a third of the angel population and decided to become god himself. So Lucifer became Satan and all hell broke loose for a while. Anyway, Satan is defeated and Christain should not even be bothered about him. Not too sure for the non-believers though. So why did God not rid Satan completely? What make you think He did not? Think of it this way too, God mad man. Man disobey God and why are we still here? If God so purpose of to completelhy wipe out all that He had create, we will not be having this conversation.
2006-06-27 17:07:42 · answer #3 · answered by The Jayster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First thing first, God did not creat the devil, God is love in order for love to be it can NOT be forced, so even angles have choices, compare the type of person satan is as described in The Bible Isaiah 14:12-15 with chapter 53 of the same book, if God had of destoryed satan everyone would have served God out of fear not love, would you want folks to be afraid of you, it does NOT matter if you do not believe, it is true and ones opinion does not change fact but hay if you would like free Bible based studys on this try www.itiswritten.com or write me wgr88@yahoo.com
2006-06-27 16:31:58 · answer #4 · answered by wgr88 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The devil is an angel named lucifer. After he fell from heaven, and God gave man free will. God tells us he loves us while the devil tempts us to do wrong. If God took away the devil, there is no opposition, and no other way to follow. we would then be forced to love God. Its worth so much more to him when its a choice, not a forced thing.
2006-06-27 16:29:34 · answer #5 · answered by Irzu_7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is all powerful, but he doesn't want to get rid of the devil yet because He wants to test human beings. God wants to see who are the believers and who are the disbelievers by testing them to see if they fall into the devil's traps. after judgment day, God will put the devil and all those who followed him and fell into his traps into hell, while the believers will forever dwell in paradise.
2006-06-27 16:51:54 · answer #6 · answered by strike 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My opinion is that the Devil is God's equivalent of a toilet bowl brush that someone uses to accomplish a dirty but necessary task that they would never do with their own hands.
God uses the Devil for purposes that go beyond our finite understanding. But we do get a small glimpse into some of the things that He uses the Devil for.
The Bible says that God uses temptations and trials to prove our faith genuine and to drive us to Him in prayer. It also says that God never tempts anyone to sin, but one of the Devil's names is the Tempter. God allowed the Devil to test Job and even Jesus. But He promises that one day the Devil will end up in the lake of fire when He's all done with him.
2006-06-27 16:29:18 · answer #7 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christian theology really messes up here. God is supposed to know EVERYTHING before it ever happens; therefore, before he created angels and heaven and hell and Earth, he KNEW that Satan would rebel and cause a war in heaven and then make life miserable for billions of innocent humans...yet he created Satan, anyway. Is there some kind of logic in this?
Okay, maybe he created Satan for that express purpose, to eventually test humanity and see who would follow him and who would follow Satan. Again, if God knows all, then he already knew these things and did not need to test anyone! Christians do say that our purpose is to please God, so why wouldn't God make only people and angels who would please him, instead of allowing the displeasing ones to exist so that he would have to punish them?
Ignoring all these theological problems, we then arrive at the question you brought up--if God is so angry at Satan, why didn't he simply destroy him ages ago, before he had a chance to mess up humanity? God cast Satan to Earth...to Earth?? Why would God create a perfect, beautiful paradise for humans and then exile Satan there to destroy it?? There are other planets in the solar system, why not cast him to Mars or Venus or one of the moons of Jupiter? Heck, why not confine him to a distant galaxy, where he couldn't hurt humans? God is like a judge who "punishes" a serial killer by setting him loose in a school playground! Yet we are expected to worship him??
2006-06-27 16:43:04 · answer #8 · answered by Antique Silver Buttons 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve were the first ppl God created. Eve drove Adam into sin in the Garden of Eden. Which means God had to kick them out of this Garden and so now all of us sin. God does things for a reason.
2006-06-27 16:27:45 · answer #9 · answered by ~One And Only~ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the "devil" is our own conscience working on us when we are deciding between right and wrong and was invented by people to scare others into doing the right things....I have a photo taken out of a plane window of an angel on my plane wing, so I know there are higher beings......Blessed are those who have NOT seen but still believe.......
2006-06-27 16:30:12 · answer #10 · answered by mizzzzthang 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan is God's buddy. God let Satan destroy Job, one of God's favorite people, just to see how Job would react. God's relationship with Satan is more important to God than His relationship to His favorite mortal. The must not be in direct opposition, as the church would tell you, but must collude with each other on different projects. This makes me think that Hell is not as bad as we've been told, because God wouldn't make His buddy suffer too much. Satan may even be one of God's Sons.
2006-06-27 16:32:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋