Why is it that when you ask why life isn't fair, why there is killing, why children are murdered and why people are not giving the opportunity to live their lives equally with one another, all of the Christians say, "Well that is the work of the devil on Earth". But when you question the validity of God, people say "God is all powerful, you are going to hell for questioning him"? If God is all powerful, then why would he allow a purely evil creation "Satan", to have influence over Earth?
2006-10-16 09:30:33 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please no bull about Adam and Eve and it being man's fault. That is pure garbage and simple propoganda that you use because you don't know the real answer
2006-10-16 09:39:33 · update #1
actually bible says god creates evil... and then the question becomes why then did god create this, and then punish us for his own creation to affect his other creation...
2006-10-16 09:34:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Imagine that a teacher is telling his students how to solve a difficult problem. A clever but rebellious student claims that the teacher’s way of solving the problem is wrong. Implying that the teacher is not capable, this rebel insists that he knows a much better way to solve the problem. Some students think that he is right, and they also become rebellious. What should the teacher do? If he throws the rebels out of the class, what will be the effect on the other students? Will they not believe that their fellow student and those who joined him are right? All the other students in the class might lose respect for the teacher, thinking that he is afraid of being proved wrong. But suppose that the teacher allows the rebel to show the class how he would solve the problem.
Jehovah has done something similar to what the teacher does. Remember that the rebels in Eden were not the only ones involved. Millions of angels were watching. (Job 38:7; Daniel 7:10) How Jehovah handled the rebellion would greatly affect all those angels and eventually all intelligent creation. So, what has Jehovah done? He has allowed Satan to show how he would rule mankind. God has also allowed humans to govern themselves under Satan’s guidance.
The teacher in our illustration knows that the rebel and the students on his side are wrong. But he also knows that allowing them the opportunity to try to prove their point will benefit the whole class. When the rebels fail, all honest students will see that the teacher is the only one qualified to lead the class. They will understand why the teacher thereafter removes any rebels from the class. Similarly, Jehovah knows that all honesthearted humans and angels will benefit from seeing that Satan and his fellow rebels have failed and that humans cannot govern themselves. Like Jeremiah of old, they will learn this vital truth: “I well know, OÂ Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.”—Jeremiah 10:23.
2006-10-16 17:17:30 · answer #2 · answered by papavero 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We gave Satan control when Adam decided to do what Satan suggested.
Death entered our world. It is a curse that will be upon this Earth until the time that God brings in a new heaven and a new earth.
Bad things happen to all of us be we believers or not. When bad things happen it brings me closer to God. But some people will blame God.
If we will try to remember that we are eternal beings then the bad things that we go thru here on this earth seem to fade a little. Still it is painful to go thru some things but in ten thousand years Where shall we be? How we relate with the Creator in our lives now will determine this.
2006-10-16 16:41:17 · answer #3 · answered by Jimguyy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan was not purely evil. He simply got greedy and had too much of a god complex. He thought he could do a better job and was kicked out with the rest of his followers. God is all powerful but he has a strict no interfering policy. If he interfered then we would not have free will .
2006-10-16 16:37:21 · answer #4 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians live by faith and are the fallen so they except life as punishment with the hope for redemption.
Why stop with Christians, how about Muslims and Jews, Buddhism or Jainism or indigenous sacred ways of tribal people.
Maybe the greatest example of Gods power is to let us figure it out for ourselves. The real question is why do we kill, murder and hate one another. Maybe the desire for power is at the root of all this.
This is a good question, keep looking for answers and you are on the path to enlightenment.
Peace
2006-10-16 17:02:06 · answer #5 · answered by tchrist36 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Satan first sinned, God could have obliterated hem right then and there. But God did not, do you know why? Because if He had then the rest of the intelligent beings that He had created would have worshiped Him out of fear, and God does not want us to worship Him that way. He wants our heart felt love worship, and nothing else will do. And do not worry, one day real soon God will end Satan's tyranny once and for all.
2006-10-16 16:36:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God has Power. Satan has influence. Man has choice. God does not allow Satan to influence us... we do. There's a difference. If God would have us choose Him by our own free will, would you have Him influence our will by somehow eliminating Satan? Would that then be free will, or would that be God influencing our choice for Him. God is righteous. ALL His ways are equal. That's difficult for us to comprehend because we find it difficult to NOT influence outcomes in our own lives. God wants us to choose Him of our own free will. He only influences our lives when we invite Him to through prayer... thus, we make the choice. Satan does not have power over the earth... man does. Satan can only influence our choices through deception.
2006-10-16 16:37:17 · answer #7 · answered by reformed 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God allows it because in Genesis He, GOD, gave all authority over to man, meaning humans.
But when Adam and Eve sinned they gave their authority over to Satan. GOD set up the laws and He won't violate them for any reason, He put His word higher than even His own name. That's why Jesus came to die and take the authority back by paying a remission for sins, Jesus gave authority back to Christians, but some of them don't walk in it. GOD is all powerful but since Adam gave that authority to satan GOD won't go against the law set in place. Get it?
Like the law of gravity if you jump off a building you will fall, GOD won't interfere in the law of gravity, He may save you from injury and death but you will fall.
2006-10-16 16:35:50 · answer #8 · answered by JaimeM 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God created the earth and the Adam and Eve perfect. The fall in the Garden usured in sin and death.
2006-10-16 16:33:55 · answer #9 · answered by wisdom 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Obviously the existence of evil serves some good purpose that we cannot fully comprehend. Otherwise, God would not allow the devil to continue to exist.
2006-10-16 16:37:44 · answer #10 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If God used his power to right all wrongs among earthlings; if God chained Satan; then we would have no need for God.
2006-10-16 16:36:26 · answer #11 · answered by Roxton P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋