Did God created creatures of his image and likeness that would control evil? or is it that God knows everything and planned everything that He even planned Evil on us?
2006-09-14 04:07:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
First, "Lucifer" is not the devil. According to the Bible, "Lucifier" ('Light-bringer') was used as a metaphor for the king of Babylon.
Second, the idea of Satan 'ruling' hell came from Dante's Inferno, not the Bible.
God gave us the ability to choose to follow Him. If we choose not to do so, then we have made an evil choice. The fault is ours and ours alone.
2006-09-14 04:20:51 · answer #1 · answered by flyersbiblepreacher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God would never plan evil for us, but we have been given free choice, we either choose evil or good, life is all about choice, there is nothing made in heaven and earth that God has not created, or given man the ability to create, when God created the world there was nothing He didn't know about, because He knows everything He even knows what we are going to say before we say anything, He knew even as He was creating Adam and Eve that they were going to make a mess of it and choose to do evil and planned to send His Son Jesus into the world to die for us so that we might have life and salvation through believing in Him and to save us from death and hell, hell is a place that God has created for the devil and all his angels, and all who have rejected the wonderful gift of Jesus His Son, no one can enter into heaven unless they have accepted Him as their Lord and Savior, God wants to bless us with everything that is good and give us life not death or anything evil.
2006-09-14 04:35:44 · answer #2 · answered by katiessupernan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the guy above humans=imaginary
Listen, God allowed evil unto this world so it could come to existance.. Everything exists in form and anti-form here.. Lucifer is just the representation of the beauty which is ugly in God's eyes. This beauty controls us.. It's around us turning us away from God. The power of money, false happiness etc.
2006-09-14 04:13:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evil could not exist in a divinely created world without a god or gods specifically allowing for the possibility of evil existing.
Therefore, God is the root of all evil.
2006-09-14 04:15:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing "controls" evil. Evil is not some centralized fighting force with a leader that tries to attack "good." Evil is chaotic; it is simply when someone decides to purposely harm an individual or society. (That's a bad definition, and not meant to be inclusive. The point is simply that evil has no central control, not even us. It just is.)
2006-09-14 04:11:50 · answer #5 · answered by le_fou_mauvais 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evil can only go as far as God allows. I'm not saying that God is the author of evil, but He is in total control.Nothing takes Him by surprise, nothing can overcome His will.
2006-09-14 04:14:57 · answer #6 · answered by G3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The power to both good and evil lies in us all. Sometimes is it just circumstances that destinguishes the way we act. No one can be good all the time, and no one can be evil all the time. You can call this God and the Devil if you prefer or Yin & Yang.
The destinction between good and evil is a difficult one: Is it evil to kill someone who may be intent on harming you and your family?
Is it good to save a psychopath child murderer from an angry crowd?
Are we evil for killing animals for food?
Are we good just because we go to church and worship?
2006-09-14 04:24:03 · answer #7 · answered by Jeff J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
confident devil is exhibiting the worldwide the way---the extensive thank you to eternal torment interior the Lake of hearth. Now with that being stated, in case you first study financial ruin 13 of Isaiah and verses a million by way of 22 of financial ruin 14 of Isaiah, you will see that Isaiah is speaking of prophecies against Babylon and the king of Babylon. Lucifer isn't devil as many have self assurance however the king of Babylon. Scripture makes that very sparkling. you ought to continuously study the Bible in context and not %. and choose Scripture to healthful your own concept or schedule.
2016-12-18 10:10:56 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 TIMOTHY 3:1 But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.
With all these bad attitutes and behaviours, humankind is dealing with now days...nonetheless, God has nothing to do with all these bad conducts....the bible states that Satan the Devil is the main ruler of this wicked world...and even Jesus realize that when Satan offer him all the governments of all the world...if he did a worship to Satan.....but we know that he didn't fall for it...(Mathew 4:8)8 Again the Devil took him along to an unusually high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, 9 and he said to him: “All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me.” 10 Then Jesus said to him: “Go away, Satan! For it is written, ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.’” 11 Then the Devil left him, and, look! angels came and began to minister to him.
2 Corinthians 4:44 states:"among whom the god (Satan) of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through.
Nonetheless, soon Jehovah will destroy this wicked angel along with his demons, for the best of humankind....as stated in the bible in the book of Revelation 20:1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he seized the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 And he hurled him into the abyss and shut [it] and sealed [it] over him, that he might not mislead the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After these things he must be let loose for a little while.
The humankind will be restablished to what was the purpose of Jehovah, about making of this world a whole paradise throughout all over the wolrd and mankind living forever in perfect conditions till ever and ever, forever...J.W.
2006-09-14 04:43:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God = imaginary
Lucifer = imaginary
Hell = imaginary
Heaven = imaginary
Mystery solved.
2006-09-14 04:11:22 · answer #10 · answered by bonzo the tap dancing chimp 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋