all the plauges and floods and pain that was inflicited by the one above in the old testiment. all the devil did was give people their desires good or bad.
2006-11-21 15:14:47 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
to the chick who said read the new testament well without the old the new would be null and void
2006-11-21 15:20:29 · update #1
god sucks balls- go the devil
2006-11-21 15:17:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
You raise an interesting point. Where in the bible do you hear of Satan actually doing any thing evil? Where as God is responsible for the death of millions. I understand your logic, but consider this....
The Bible is about God. God and his follower was the ones the proverbial camera was focused on. Which means that Satan was working behind the scenes in most of these stories. I don't suppose you believe that the church all by it's self encouraged people to let a know murderer/rapist go while some guy who's just spouting crazy talk gets nailed to a cross, do you?
Satan is subtle. He works through a from of dark inspiration and emotion. I can understand if it would take a few passes to grasp this. It's not easy. That's why faith is so important. Best wishes.
2006-11-21 23:26:04 · answer #2 · answered by Odindmar 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you serious? You need to step into the New Testament friend. You've at least found the difference between Judaism and Christianity! The Jews dont believe in the New Testament but do believe in God. The just don't see Jesus as the Messiah... as do the Muslims. The Old Testament may talk about the "Wrath of God" but the New Testament talks about the Love of Jesus. Muslims like to say that they believe in the same God as the Christians but the God of Christianity preaches peace, love, and the tolerance of all mankind. Muslims, Orthodox Muslims, follow the preachings of Muhammad who advocates violence and genecide against all those who do not follow Islam. There are Muslims that don't follow this traditional belief but they are not Orthodox Muslims. Muslims like to preach about the Crusades and how the Christians persicuted the Muslims.... but they fail to say WHY the Crusades started to begin with. They started because Muhammad and Orthodox Muslims were killing Christians all over the world LONG before the Crusades.
Where is the God of Love in the Muslim religion?
2006-11-21 23:28:34 · answer #3 · answered by go_uva 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think we are all to old for fairy tales. If you have a crappy life it's because you are a crappy person. There is no Divine fate or any other lazy mans way to explain peoples short comings. Religion is a crutch for feeble minded sheep. That's why we can get people to do so much hurtful and stupid acts in the name of their Deity. The sooner we boot strap up and account for ourselves and not wait for a dude on a puffy cloud to give us what we all assume we deserve the better off the planet will be.
2006-11-21 23:21:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
yeah i know you don't really hear of satan doing all the nasty stuff or condoning it , its kind like satan some how gets blamed for all the horriblle stuff when human s condoned by God are actually the ones committing the act ... isn't it ironic, Set, Chaos , Shiatian ,Powerful spirits that can have a benefical influence on man have be relegated to lesser demon like entities dispised and misunderstood by humanity , I tell you all if someone spread crap all over my name that wasn't true for more then 2000 years I'd be pretty pissed off and nasty towards them to , these entities originated as entities of various pagan religion and were implemented into christainity to make its followers persecute the followers of other cults or religions
2006-11-21 23:23:59 · answer #5 · answered by harro_06 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Anyone who thinks satan is a good guy isn't the kind of person i'd hang out with.
2006-11-21 23:23:01 · answer #6 · answered by Ashley 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not exactly. Try reading it a little more and try reading the new testament
2006-11-21 23:17:41 · answer #7 · answered by SunShineBabe 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, Satan brought all the evil into the world at the Garden of Eden.
2006-11-21 23:17:36 · answer #8 · answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
How do you know that the devil wasn't doing all that and God just allowing it, as in the book of Job?
2006-11-21 23:18:22 · answer #9 · answered by shirleykins 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That theory does in fact make some sense.... hmmm... I'll have to do some research on my own about it, but thanks for another interesting point to bring up when arguing with mentally blind religious nuts.
2006-11-21 23:18:59 · answer #10 · answered by I Am Legend 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
what your unaware of or are failing to take into account is that this is our temporary life. The one that follows is the permanent one. is Jesus Christ your lord and saviour?
GOD BLESS
2006-11-21 23:19:27 · answer #11 · answered by thewindowman 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋