Why do people worship the Devil?

Question

I worshiped Jesus all my life but recently I began to notice that there is much more evil in the world then good. I had a best friend who was diagnosed with a mental disorder. He was allways depressed and told me that he felt like he lived in hell. He tried various doctors but none of them helped. One doctor prescribed him some anti depressant drugs, but they gave him such terrible side effects and he commited suicide.
I stopped believing in god after that. I feel like satan is in charge of the world. Everything around me is fake, going to church is like bagging for a dime on a street corner.

Answer 1

Bonnie,

Contrary to what you might think, it doesn't give the Devil much joy to see you like this. What you're going through right now is very common. It's the result of an unfulfilled promise and a worldview built upon a sham.

The Bible tells you that God loves you. The Bible also tells us that the original sin which requires ultimate satisfaction is that human beings sought after knowledge when God denied them access to it. The Bible also describes a God who kills off an entire world (Noah), induces suffering on a bet and provides no moral justification for it (Job), and hires a local hitman to beat his people down when they hurt his feelings and then tells the people that they made him do it (look up Nebuchadnezzar). God's chosen redemption was to hang Jesus Christ upon a Cross, have him die and be reborn. In doing so, he ends up displacing his chosen people (who have suffered with him for so long) in favor of the current powerplayer (the Romans).

The Bible tells you that God is all-powerful. Of course, he can't defeat iron chariots (see Judges 1:19). He doesn't hold back typhoons or tsunamis. He damn sure didn't heal your friend or anyone else with a mental disorder. For someone who is all-powerful, and who "knits us together in our mother's womb", he sure isn't much of an intelligent designer.

God wants you to deny yourself this world in the hopes of something to come. As we deny ourselves this world, we ruin it for future generations. Meanwhile, Jehovah does nothing to fulfill his end of the bargain, except cut humanity a raw deal.

Bonnie, it's time to put the Bible down. Look at the world around you. Go see a friend. Go see a family member. Hug someone you love. It's time to claim your life for yourself. It's time to not see things as part of a war between good and evil - it's a world where people are struggling to get by, and they make a mix of ethical and impure decisions. They're fallible, not possessed. And so are we all.

If Satan wants anything out of you, it's to see you discover your will to survive and provide purpose and meaning for yourself. I want nothing more for you than for you to find your own resources of power and strength. He is, after all, the one who dared human beings to taste the fruit of knowledge and grow.

All the best,

Lazarus

Answer 2

I am very sorry for your loss and the fact that it had shaken your faith. Please allow me however, an opportunity to input a little bit.

It is an inaccurate belief of many that "if I do good God will be good to me....how can God repay me with such horrible things in my life?". Many Christians have this perception that when we profess a believe in God that our lives should be better because we can pray and ask God to help.

Well, whilst we do have the freedom to pray, Jesus had never promised that choosing to believe him is going to make our lives easier or more enjoyable. Is God our servant that completes every request? Rather, Paul tells us that as believers we will share in the sufferings of Christ (Philippians 1:29, Romans 8:17) and that the world will hate us because we are His disciples. If it was an easy life we're after, we would not have chosen Christianity- the church of Christ through the centuries had been built by the blood of martyrs.

Sometimes we may feel that God ought to be good to us because we worship him and obeyed him much as we can, but remember that salvation is by grace alone, and not by our own works. We may think perhaps God owes you a favour or explanation for your friend's suicide, but rather it is us who owe God our lives and everything we have because we have been purchased and redeemed from the road to destruction at the cost of his own Son Jesus.

Our world is filled with evil, no doubt. However although we are in a cooked and depraved generation- we are to remain blameless and pure, shining like stars in the universe as we hold out the word of life (Philippians 2:14-16). We are to be like the light of the world that is lit and put on a hill so that others can see God. We can't change the world all at once, but each of us, by working together with God, can help save others to an eternal glory that will be far outweight all this.

Know this: "No weapon formed against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you." (Isaiah 54:17).

Praying for you.

Answer 3

The fact that there is more eveil in the world does not render God powerless. Satan's intention has always been to be worshipped and he has managed to achieve that and he has more followers than God. But God has a people in His hand that he is using to do his will and works. You should have taken your friend to be prayed for and God would have surely delivered him. He can do it even today. Remember the parable of the one who sowed during the day and an enemy came in the evening also sowing but casting out bad seed? If you are a farmer you'll notice that weeds far outnumber the true seed and that is exaclty the same thing between good and evil. You should also remember that God does not deal with large numbers of people. Its rather in the quality of the people and not numbers. I urge you to go back to God and ask Him to lead you in the way of righteousness and in His will for this day.

Answer 4

Ask yourself what kind of loving God would put your friend in that position? Loving GOd? For Reznor's sake, look at the world! It's filled with suffering and death.

Your friend went to hell, because God made him crazy. Or God, at the very least, didn't prevent it.

As to why people worship the devil, it's usually because they have a dark side. Rebelling can be fulfiilling.

Answer 5

I don't understand what the details have to do with the question, but let me offer my condolences to you on the loss of your friend, I've lost 2 friends due to suicide. The short and simple answer is, if you're waiting for Jesus to come back and make this world a better place, you'd be smart not to hold your breath.

Answer 6

If you have really been committed to God, you that remark is not true. As far as your friend is concerned, the side effects probably did not cause him to do what he did. As far as anti-depressants are concerned, the right combination has to be found for it to work effectively.
You are doing exactly what the devil wants you to do. You know that God will only have a chosen few and the devil will do whatever he can to lower that number. Stop blaming God for what your friend chose to do.
Return to your bible and I think that you will find many answers that might helped to console you.
Good luck.

Answer 7

Some teenagers and very young adults do this because they think it's "cool." Some do it because they believe that satan will give them a high place in hell with lot's of power. How deceived they all are! Satan hates all of us. There is no high place in hell with power and when God sends satan to hell, he will be the lowest form for all the deception he has done. God is the only way to recovery. The only thing satan will do for you is to lie and lead you down the wrong path. Be careful. Trust only in God.

Answer 8

Funny you should say that. Satan is the god of this world. The bible makes that very clear and your friend was right. There is a way to overcome it but being negative and denying the truth isn't it.

Answer 9

If you believe that a Satan exists, then you still believe in God. You can't have one without the other. You can't have good without evil, you can't have dark without light.
Yes, this world is evil....but Satan is not in charge. Humans are in charge. Humans have corrupted this world. That's why it is so evil.

Answer 10

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true... everything in this world is false. Everything in this world is also true.

There is more good in this world than bad... the bad is just very proficient at obscuring the good.

THere are indeed evil demons in this world, but we as humans have been given the power to control them... that is all.