is so filled with wickedness, suffering, and sorrow? If God is the Almighty, why has he permitted these conditions for so long?
I say support the devil he's honest
2006-07-09 08:06:41 · 23 answers · asked by Gerald U 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God has given us free will to do as we choose. We bring wickedness, suffering and sorrow.
2006-07-09 08:10:41 · answer #1 · answered by olelefthander 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
GOD does permit wickedness, and millions on earth willfully make a practice of it. For instance, they declare wars, drop bombs on children, scorch the earth, and cause famines. Millions smoke and get lung cancer, practice adultery and get sexually transmitted diseases, use alcohol to excess and get cirrhosis of the liver, and so on. Such people do not truly want all wickedness stopped. They only want the penalties for it eliminated. When they reap what they have sown, they cry out, "Why me?" And they blame God, as Proverbs 19:3 says: "A man's own folly wrecks his life, and then he bears a grudge against the LORD." (The New English Bible) And if God stopped their evildoing, they would protest their loss of freedom to do it!
Jehovah's main reason for permitting evil is to answer Satan's challenge. Satan the Devil said that God could not put men on earth who would be true to Him under test. (Job 1:6-12; 2:1-10) Jehovah allows Satan to remain to have opportunity to prove his challenge. (Exodus 9:16) Satan continues to bring woes now, to turn men against God, as he tries to prove his challenge. (Revelation 12:12) However, Job kept integrity. So did Jesus. True Christians do now.—Job 27:5; 31:6; Matthew 4:1-11; 1 Peter 1:6, 7.
2006-07-09 08:26:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life on earth is all about making choices and progressing. How could we make choices and grow as a person if there were no situations to choose between like "good" and "evil", kindness and cruelty, sorrow and joy. When we leave this world, we take with us all that we have learned and all of the consequences of our choices. The first gift God gave us was choice, and he allows us to make those choices. Justice comes in the knowlege that everyone will be judged by their choices.
2006-07-09 08:26:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The paradise is heaven. Here on earth is your time between heaven and hell. If you choose to be evil and to not be a christian and follow God's word, then you will go to hell. If you think the devil is honest, well then he has already had his way with you and you haven't spent anytime at all trying to learn anything about God!!! You'll really experience evil now.
2006-07-09 08:12:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A challenge was issued in the Garden of Eden, Satan claimed that God was not ruling his subjects with their best interest in mind, that humans could rule themselves apart from God. Adam and Eve willingly joined in this rebellion. God has permitted this to prove once for all time we cannot rule ourselves. God's word says it does not belong to earthling man who is walking even to direct his step, and man shall dominate man to his injury. God has allowed suffering to prove Satan a liar and very soon God will act to straighten everything out. He established a kingdom in the heavens and installed his son Christ Jesus as king to rule for a thousand years until earth is brought back to paradise conditions, soon Jesus will act to rid this world of all wickedness, and righteous man brought back to perfection then he will hand back the kingdom to his God and Father so that God will rule as King for eternity.
2006-07-09 08:24:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Devil is never honest and believe me the earth is not the paradise the paradise is something else somewhere else and we can only get it in the next life and only if we do good thiseathis neither paradise nor hell
2006-07-09 08:11:51 · answer #6 · answered by Salman the prince the hidden 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a very negative view of the world today. We are living in more peaceable, better health and with a better standard of living than any time in history. OK its not perfect but its immeasurably better than almost any time in the past. To someone living 100 or 500 years ago we truely are living in a paradise earth today.
2006-07-09 08:11:39 · answer #7 · answered by Chris C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOD IS THE ONE THAT OPENS PEOPLES EYES AND EARS TO HIS GREAT PLAN FOR MANKIND. HERE IT IS, ARE YOUR EYES OPEN.
Re 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Re 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Re 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Re 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Re 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Re 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Re 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Re 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Re 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Re 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Re 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Re 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
2006-07-09 08:18:37 · answer #8 · answered by His eyes are like flames 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 Peter 3:13
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Revelation 21:1
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
God plans to renew this world. If you want to stick with the devil...so be it. Enjoy hell.
2006-07-09 08:17:50 · answer #9 · answered by mx3baby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the devil is a LIAR. don't be fooled. God gave us free will. our paradise is in Heaven. the devil will trick you. if you support the devil you will be tortured for all eternity. suffering and brings compasion. just trust in God and he will show you the way. have a little faith.
2006-07-09 08:11:53 · answer #10 · answered by mic848_1999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋