Will evil remain here on earth?
2007-02-11 07:58:02 · 14 answers · asked by Yea Yea 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He will. Read Revelation: the last book in the Bible. It's intense, and will answer your question.
2007-02-11 08:05:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't think Satan causes evil according to the Christian belief. After all, free will is really what allows people do do evil, not Satan.
2007-02-11 08:01:40 · answer #2 · answered by Edit_Undo 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Without Satan God would be out of a job.
2007-02-11 08:17:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Maybe it is because there is a purpose for the evil to be present in our world.
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2007-02-11 08:04:18 · answer #4 · answered by Soul saviour 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In the end of days God will do just that according to the Bible, but as for now, free will reigns.
Evil is not caused by God, and it doesn't come from God. But God allows evil to exist because he gave us all free will, and he wants us to exercise that will. It would be meaningless to have the ability to make choices if there were only one option available - for example, there were only good in the universe. For us to be able to either choose God or reject him there has to be an option B. And in this case, option B is everything God is not - namely evil.
Let's look at it another way: God created us out of love, and he wants us to love him back. But love can never be forced. We can love our children so much that it hurts, but we can never force them to love us in return. It's the same with God. He can't force us to love him. Love, by definition, is always freely given. By giving us free will, God gave us the ability to reject him and all that is good, and thereby bring evil into our world. And all of us suffer in this life because of the evil that exists.
Free will makes love possible because love is always voluntary. But the other side of free will is that we also have the option to blow it, and.. .well.. .at one point we sort of blew it big time.
I'm referring to the Garden of Eden and the fall, which we can get into later because that brings up its own wacky set of questions. But the fact is that at some point in the dawn of our history, the first humans chose to exercise their option. They rejected God, and by making that choice, they allowed all of the negatives that come with that decision into the world we inhabit. Hence sin, death, evil—you name it; if it's bad we let it in.
Still, it's not God who allowed these things into his creation any more than a mom and dad allow drugs to be stashed in their teenager’s room. It's just that when you are dealing with human beings and not robots, you get a lot of bad with the good. But again, the free will to choose the bad is what gives meaning to choosing the good. We choose in favor of one thing and against another.
2007-02-11 08:07:09 · answer #5 · answered by still_happy2006 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We need the Devil... I love God, but Satan is awesome. Without the devil we wouldn't have the fun stuff. But all in good time.. in the end the devil and hell and death and stuff and bad people will be thrown into the lake of fire.....
And because at this moment God doesn't want to.
2007-02-11 08:05:54 · answer #6 · answered by Annabella Stephens 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Satan is not the enemy of God, he is the enemy of Humans.
He worshiped God for 60 million years, and he asked just for one thing with God, To be the instrument of trial for humans, and God granted him that.
2007-02-11 08:05:08 · answer #7 · answered by byefareed 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The real question is why don't real your bible?
who says will evil here on earth.....
2007-02-11 08:17:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because he needs somebody to blame for his mistakes, and some horrible things (diseases, natural disasters) are impossible to blame on humans.
Also, he and Satan are poker buddies. Look what they did to poor Job - pretty much gambled on him.
2007-02-11 08:07:35 · answer #9 · answered by catrionn 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because soul is here to learn, If you don't suffer .you don't learn much at all.
what if you took away down.then theirs only up.
or took away dark.and theirs only light.
their Has to be balance in the psychical and spiritual worlds.its natural.just except it and go on
I wish you the best on your spiritual journey
2007-02-11 08:04:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God left the wimp here on earth so we can have fun stomping on his neck...
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" I give you power....over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means harm you". - Jesus
2007-02-11 08:07:34 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋