2007-01-31 06:30:17 · 32 answers · asked by rebekkah hot as the sun 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Which deception...Lucifer rebelling, or tricking Adam and Eve?
Regardless, this supposedly all knowing god has dropped the ball on many things...in the first book of the bible alone:
He didn't know the serpent was in the garden.
He didn't know that the serpent told A&E the truth about eating the apple (god lied here saying they would die when they ate it).
He didn't know who told A&E they were naked.
He didn't know that they would eat from the tree in the first place.
He didn't know that Cain killed Able until after the fact.
The list goes on and on.
2007-01-31 06:38:22 · answer #1 · answered by Bill K Atheist Goodfella 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Why do you think that God did not see Lucifer's deception? God knows EVERYTHING. He knew this would happen. Again, it comes down to free choice. God gives ALL His created beings the freedom to choose - including his angels. It's wonderful that God does NOT impose His will on us - He lets us be stupid or smart if we choose to. Hopefully we will make the right choices. Obviously, Lucifer made a bad choice and he will pay the price for that choice one day. The Bible says so.
2007-01-31 06:35:11 · answer #2 · answered by Chimichanga to go please!! 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-01 23:39:32 · answer #3 · answered by pour 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, obviously he did...
It is pretty speculative to say anything beyond that like, "Why didn't he stop him?". We do not know what that would entail. For instance, maybe he allowed the deception to allow us to come to Christ... Otherwise the world would have ended long ago.
No one, including you, are qualified to say much about this. We are were we are.
What came before the big bang??? Why don't we know??? Asking questions that no one can answer is a waste of time. Needless to say that things are the way they are.
The Bible clearly tells us what happened, the rest if up to us.
2007-01-31 06:36:00 · answer #4 · answered by TK421 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a difference between KNOWING something and having it MANIFESTED.
What if God denounced Lucifer simply based on knowing ahead of time?
Lucifer would reply to all angels:
"See! See! He's biased. I haven't done anything and He's already condemned me."
It is necessary to let the hand play out, no matter what you may personally know.
It must be made manifest.
2007-01-31 06:35:05 · answer #5 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
How do you know God did not see it coming? Assumption is the mother of all deception.
2007-01-31 07:07:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question implies that if a good God exists, then evil shouldn't because God, being all powerful, should stop it.
We need to ask and answer two questions. First, what is evil? It is that which is against God. It is anything morally bad or wrong. It is injurious, depraved, wicked. Some acceptable examples might be murder, rape, stealing, lying, and cheating. Second, if we want God to stop evil, do we want Him to stop all evil, or just some of it? In other words, if just some of it, then why? If He were to stop only part of the evil, then we would still be asking the question, "Why is there evil in the world?"
Let's suppose that someone was about to commit murder. God would have to stop him, maybe whisper in his ear, or if that didn't work, do something a little more drastic, like have something fall on him, or stop his heart, or make his hands suddenly fall off. Anyway, God would have to do something.
What if somebody wanted to steal? God would have to stop him too, right? Undoubtedly, God's imagination would permit a more practical method than I have suggested, but the end results would be the same.
What about lying? If someone were to tell a lie, then to be consistent wouldn't you want God right there to stop that person from lying? After all, He couldn't let any evil occur, could He?
Let's take it a step further. Suppose someone thought something evil. Then, of course, God would have to step in and prevent him from thinking anything bad at all, right? The end result would be that God could not allow anyone to think freely. Since everyone thinks, and no one thinks only pure thoughts, God would be pretty busy, and we wouldn't be able to think. Anyway, at what point do we stop - at the murder level, stealing level, lying level, or thinking level? As your question implies, if you want God to stop evil, you would have to be consistent and want Him to do it everywhere all the time, not just pick and choose. It wouldn't work.
Evil is in this world partly because we give it its place but ultimately because God, in His sovereignty, permits it and keeps it under His control.
Then you might say, "Couldn't He just make us perfect and that way we wouldn't sin?" He already did that. He made a perfect angel, Satan, but he sinned. He made a perfect man, Adam, and he sinned. He made a perfect woman, Eve, and she sinned. God knows what He is doing. He made us the way we are for a purpose. We don't fully understand that purpose, but He does.
God is sovereign; He has the right to do as He wishes. He has the right to permit evil for accomplishing His ultimate will. How can He do that? Simple, look at the Cross. It was by evil means that men lied and crucified Jesus. Yet God in His infinite wisdom used this evil for good. It was on the Cross that Jesus bore our sins in His body (1 Peter. 2:24) and it is because of the Cross that we can have forgiveness of sins.
Consider the biblical example of Joseph in the Old Testament. He was sold into slavery by his brothers. Though they meant it for evil, God meant it for good (Gen. 50:20). God is so great that nothing happens without His permission, and in that permission His ultimate plan unfolds. In His plan He is able to use for good what man intends for evil. God is in control.
2007-01-31 06:34:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Good question. That's what I wonder too. Like when Christ knew that someone was going to betray him before the rooster crowed... Why didn't he do something? He also knew he would be crucified. ALl of this had to happen the way it did, I guess. And why did God have to make Jesus, a good person, suffer and die an agonizing death for us? It doesn't make sense to me.
2007-01-31 06:36:46 · answer #8 · answered by true blue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just Christian tradition ( recent ) that the devil is evil. I believe that Lucifer never separated from God, that he is still a part of him. That is role in life is to tempt people. As to God being all knowing, IF I did believe that Lucifer deceived God - which I don't - he allowed it because it was part of his plan.
2007-01-31 06:37:50 · answer #9 · answered by The Pope 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think there is anything documented that says that Lucifer's deception was a suprise to god.
2007-01-31 06:34:10 · answer #10 · answered by Conscious-X 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋