Alternative wording: If GOD IS EVERYWHERE, where is the DEVIL?
2006-08-04 12:40:05 · 30 answers · asked by reading_is_dangerous 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If god exists AND the devil exists AND god is everywhere AND the devil is not nowhere, then where god is includes where the devil is.
2006-08-04 12:45:55 · answer #1 · answered by bardoi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have just given the most convincing proof that the Devil (as such) doesn't exist.
Humans were given 'free will', in other words the ability to choose whether or not they walk with God. It is actions and the results of those actions which try to go against the Creative Flow which we term evil.
Edit: The idea of 'Satan' or 'the Devil' derives from earlier religions in which the many facets of God were seen as separate entities and worshipped as such. In reality, there is no such being. There is a part of God, however, which is dark and turbulent through the actions of those who choose to oppose the current.
2006-08-04 19:46:14 · answer #2 · answered by Owlwings 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Job, Satan has access to heaven and to the throne on which to accuse. Satan is just a fallen angel, a created being. God is not thrown off balance by him--by any means.
There is one place that God does not occupy. That is Gehenna, or hell. Hell is a place where there is no light or presence of God whatsoever. That is why it is a place of weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. We have no concept of how horrible that would be. But in the final days, that is where Satan will be thrown, and everyone else who is not found written in the Lamb's book of Life.
Richard15 - A god of your own creation is called an idol. Small point, yes, but I thought I would clarify that.
2006-08-04 19:50:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God were walking down the sidewalk, Satan would be the cracks that God steps over. The bigger the crack, the bigger the emptiness.
If God illuminated his own path, evil would be the shadow in the crack.
The very fine tip of each crack is sin.
Satan can exist with God, but only at a distance. He is God's cast shadow...
2006-08-04 20:29:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I created my very own God. My God is just for me, no one else at all. However, my God is probably everybody else's too. Drat. When God became physical in order to be able to sense God’s own self-Love, God gave rise to the primeval fear…The fear of all fears. The primeval fear is that if the physical was other than God and God is Love, then what was the physical? Was it separated from God?... Separate from Love? All descendent fears came from that on primeval fear. Absolutely all the crap in the world is born from fear. What people call the devil is really fear.
2006-08-04 19:51:11 · answer #5 · answered by Richard15 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God is all powerful and all good, WHY does the devil exist? Perhaps the devil is a facet of God.
2006-08-04 19:45:36 · answer #6 · answered by peaceful_sorceress 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is indeed omnipresent, but his nature is transcendent, so it doesn't actually come into "contact" with the created universe (I think). Satan, however, is a finite created being who only exists in a certain place and time, not everywhere at once. So, just as the apostle Paul says of us, "In God we live and move and have our being," the same is true of Satan.
2006-08-04 20:01:40 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God and the devil always exist together...wherever God is the devil exists too....Satan will always be trying to win people back to darkness and evil every second of every day...Satan exists in every person...the question is "who does he have under his control and who is free of his control" ...the only place Satan does not exist is in Heaven with God
2006-08-04 19:49:30 · answer #8 · answered by truegrit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, God can be wherever He wants to be, so the answer to your question is: Yes, God can do anything He wants and the devil can only do what God says he can...
2006-08-04 19:46:30 · answer #9 · answered by ladyhawke 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes he talked with God in the book of Job read it...
One day the angels [a] came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan [b] also came with them. 7 The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"
Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."
8 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."
9 "Does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied. 10 "Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face."
12 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger."
Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
2006-08-04 19:43:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋