Please...I want a Christian answer...1 John 3:8 says "He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because...

Question

the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeareed was to destroy the devil's work. I'm a Christian, but I was wondering why did God need to establish the second covenant? Why couldn't he destroy the devil's work with the first covenant? Please give bible evidence if possible.

Answer 1

Because the sacrifice of bulls and goats could not take care of the sin problem which only the death of Jesus could do.

Also it takes the Holy Spirit living is us to enable us to stay saved which was not possible under the Old Covenant.

Answer 2

At the time of the original sin with Adam and Eve, God had prophesied the coming of a new covenant, a savior that would redeem the world. This is because when Satan deceived Adam and Eve, he condemned them, and the rest of mankind, to death. Why? Short and simple: Adam and Eve were perfect when God first created them; they were in the presence of God like the angels were. When Satan did his thing, it cut Adam and Even off from God, because anything that is not perfect cannot survive in the presence of God. Because of our sin now, we, too, would be doomed the death. The devil knew this and that's why he did it. So, therefore, God established a promise, a convenant, that He would deliver His people. This is the old covenant. This deliverance was to be a savior. In the meantime, God accepted animal sacrifice to atone for our sins in place of our own blood.

When Jesus came, His arrival fulfilled the old covenant promise of a savior. His blood would be the one perfect sacrifice that would stand for the sins of all men for all time. His sacrifice gave us the new convenant, that now, whoever believes in Jesus and goes through Him will be saved.

Sorry I can't quote scripture, but this is the basic lesson. Hope it helps. God bless.

Answer 3

1 John 3:6 says "No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him." The devil is here on earth to lure people away from God and to lead us to sin. God wants us all to have the freedom of choice, that's the reason that the devil is allowed to do his work. However, as the above verse states, if we know God and have a true relationship with Him through His son Jesus, then the devil holds no power over us.

Answer 4

The first covenant was based upon works of the law. But God had a plan from before the foundation of the world, knowing that man could never meet the requirements of the law. His nature was now corrupt. He promised a better covenant to Abraham:

God promised this good news to Abraham long ago when he said, "All nations will be blessed through you." And so it is: All who put their faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because of his faith.
But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, "Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all these commands that are written in God's Book of the Law." Consequently, it is clear that no one can ever be right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life." How different from this way of faith is the way of law, which says, "If you wish to find life by obeying the law, you must obey all of its commands." But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."
Galatians 3:8-13

Answer 5

To put it very simply, God's first promise (covenant) included the promise of something greater (the Messiah) which would do away with the sin and death which had originally come into the world through Adam and Eve's disobedience.

Answer 6

God's works are sometimes mysterious... we shouldn't always try to look for answers... we may not find some answers... we simply need to trust that God is doing what's best for us.

Answer 7

i dont have a Bible reference but God wanted to give us freedom to choose wheter we wanted to go to heaven or hell and thats y he isnt doin anythin to the devil

Answer 8

imagine were in court....Jesus is defending you and Satan is accusing you of all sorts of sins, to keep you away from God... it show us how helpless we are with out Jesus defending us.

Answer 9

there is a lot out there on this here are two view points
by study of the bible you can come to have a better understanig of God and his plan

That is, "So far as a man sinneth, so far he is of the devil, and like unto him, in whom sin is predominant: he having been an old sinner, soon after the beginning of the creation, and a bold tempter to sin all his days."
Learn, 1. That Satan has kept in a constant and continued course of sinning against God from the beiginning of his apostacy, and first moment of his revolt from God; the devil sinneth from the beginning.

Learn, 2. That such as make sin their work, do make themselves the devil's children; they are his children by imitation: Joh 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the works of your father ye will do.

As if he had said, "The Son of God came purposely into the world to destroy sin, the work of the devil, in all that he will save.

Note, 1. The odious character wherewith sin is branded, it is the work of the devil; that work which he is always doing himself; and which he is continually tempting and soliciting others to do, that they may be as miserable as himself.

Note, 2. Our Saviour's manifestation in the flesh asserted; the Son of God was manifested, namely, to the world, and in the world; he appeared in our nature, and was seen in our flesh; it was a real exhibition, and not an imaginary manifestation of him.

Note, 3. The great end of this gracious manifestation of the Son of God in our nature, it was to destroy the works of the devil, to loose and dissolve; so the original: This supposes mankind to have been in bonds and fetters; we were in durance and captivity, shut and locked up in the prison-house; we were under the dominion of sin, and power of Satan, but the Son of God came to rescue us, to knock off our fetters, and to set us at liberty: By the works of the devil understand all sin in general.

2. Those sins in particular, which have most of the devil's image upon them, and render persons most like unto him, such are malice and envy, rejoicing at the calamities, and delighting in the evils, that befall others, rage and passion, bitter strife and contention, schism and faction, lying and falshood, craft and treachery; but especially pride and haughtiness, which was the sin that turned Satan out of heaven, and made him a devil in hell.

3. By the works of the devil here are meant in particular, idolatry, and all idolatrous worship, even to the worshipping of the devil himself; this, and all other kinds of idolatry, had strangely prevailed and over-run the world before the coming of Christ, who came on purpose to deliver mankind from this slavery, and to put down the kingdoms of Satan, and beat him out of those strong-holds which he thought had been impregnable; The Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil.


Verse 8. He that committeth sin. Habitually, wilfully, characteristically.
Is of the devil. This cannot mean that no one who commits any sin, or who is not absolutely perfect, can be a Christian, for this would cut off the great mass, even according to the belief of those who hold that the Christian may be perfectly holy, from all claim to the Christian character. But what the apostle here says is true in two senses:

(1.) That all who commit sin, even true believers, so far as they are imperfect, in this respect resemble Satan, and are under his influence, since sin, just so far as it exists at all, makes us resemble him.

(2.) All who habitually and characteristically sin are of the devil. This latter was evidently the principal idea in the mind of the apostle. His object here is to show that those who sinned, in the sense in which it would seem some maintained that the children of God might sin, could have no real evidence of piety, but really belonged to Satan.

For the devil sinneth from the beginning. The beginning of the world; or from the first account we have of him. It does not mean that he sinned from the beginning of his existence, for he was made holy like the other angels. The meaning is, that he introduced sin into the universe, and that he has continued to practise it ever since. The word sinneth here implies continued and habitual sin. He did not commit one act of sin and then reform; but he has continued, and still continues, his course of sin. This may confirm what has been already said about the kind of sin that John refers to. He speaks of sinning habitually, continuously, wilfully; and any one who does this shows that he is under the influence of him whose characteristic it has been and is to sin. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested. Became incarnate, and appeared among men,

That he might destroy the works of the devil. All his plans of wickedness, and his control over the hearts of men. Compare Notes on Cmt. on Mr 1:24; Cmt. on Heb 2:14. The argument here is, that as the Son of God came to destroy all the works of the devil, he cannot be his true follower who lives in sin.