If god wanted people to only worship him, why do you think he didn't destroy Satan when he had the chance?

Question

I want to see what people of other religions think about this subject.

Answer 1

All of that is a fantasy

Answer 2

It's all about free will. I am a Christian and I have chosen to love God and follow Him to the best of my human ability. There is a difference between loving, worshipping, serving etc. because you have to and because you want to.
God could have easily programmed us all to only worship him, but he didn't. Wouldn't that have become awfully boring? How could you tell if people really loved you or if they were just going through the motions?
As human beings, God gave us a big range of emotions. If God had destroyed Satan in the beginning, we would have found someone else to take his place. We would have eventually started asking questions, like we are right now in this forum, looking for other solutions, other answers other than God's.

Answer 3

If you read the Bible, you will understand that God wants us to worship Him freely, on our own. That is why He gave us free will. What type of love would it be if we were ordered to love Him? Not much of one.

He did not destroy satan because there is a plan, according to the Bible. Satan has his reign for a while and then God destroys him. Had Adam and Eve not sinned, we would still be living in the Garden of Eden. But since then sinned, we are put into the world where satan hunts us down until the second coming of Christ.

Answer 4

When Satan rebeled against God, and told Eve that God was not telling the truth, that she "surely would not die" if she disobeyed God and chose to set her own standards for living, this raised a question about God's right to set the standards for mankind to live by. By destroying Satan, it would not have proved whether Satan was right or wrong. By allowing Satan to continue to live, with mankind under his rule, only then could Satan be proved the liar. Eve, along with her rebelious husband Adam, did die just as God had said and the past thousands of years have proved that Satan nor Man can rule himself as well as God would have done and will do in the future when God will finally destroy Satan and all those who want to be independent of God's rulership. Keep in mind that Adam, Eve, Satan and millions of other angels in heaven, along with God were all involved in this question that required an answer, rather than leaving it unanswered by immediatedly destroying Satan.

Answer 5

Because Satan raised a challenge in the Garden of Eden which need time to be answered. He questioned Gods right to rule and questioned his sovereignty. Satan did not question Gods power to destroy him. If god had destroyed Satan at that time he would not have proved Satan's challenge wrong. He has had to allow time to pass to prove to the universe that Satan was wrong. Man cannot successfully govern himself independently of God. Even with Satan in the picture.

Answer 6

God had no reason to destroy Satan, because God uses Satan to help educate man in what God wants us to know. I believe through the trails and tribulations that God allows Satan to put us through, we learn the true will of God.

Satan is no more a threat to Almighty God than 1 gnat on a sidewalk is to a man. We naturally fear Satan when we abandon God and lean on our own will and understanding. Thus, Satan is only a threat to man when we allow Satan to be one.

So Satan is a pawn on God's chessboard that can only forge ahead when God moves him. The ??? I truly have is who is God playing on the other side of the board????

Answer 7

In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.

The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of Gods plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.

Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.

Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.

Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It’s meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 8

Because you believe such a story existed as described in the text so briefly, the answer wouldn't contain anything of true value. But if you come from devout belief in the bible, than I shall say it was because he wished your will strengthened by your faith in him. In simple terms, if more than one "God" existed, than he would desire only those who strongly believed in him through faith. For faith is what all Christianity is based upon, no tangible facts.

After all, there is only one true God, the others considered just that are not Gods... they are only those who ascended to a point which allowed them to be seen as such. Those individuals do provide some with abilities otherwise unexplainable... but that does not make those others worshiped for such reasons Gods. It makes them unique in the fact that they were able to do what so many before could not.

Answer 9

Because He already had a plan for Satan. And a plan for us. He uses Satan to give us a Choice to do right or wrong. What good would humanity be without free will? Satan will get his in the end.

Answer 10

Satan will be destroyed in Gods timing (cast into the lake of fire)

But for the meantime, he is allowed to do his barking like a dog on a leash, unfortunately the leash is quite long, so if i were you, i would hold on to Jesus, the master and the only one that has put the leash on him and will totally annihilate him when God decides

"earth is the battleground of mans soul, in a place between heaven and hell"

for a victory to be recognized, there needs to be a defeat,
for choice made that is right, there needs to be a wrong choice.

to understand "white", there needs to be "Black"

thanks for the question

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Answer 11

Because in the meantime, Satan keeps things interesting. You imagine how boring the world would be if everyone just automatically knew what religion was right? Nobody would be arguing, there'd be so little variety amongst everyone, and the politicians would have platforms to run on.