2007-02-12 05:53:40 · 9 answers · asked by I'm Sparticus 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please not: It is the church which is (often evil). At least Satan and Jesus told the truth - as for God ....well best I remain open-minded, but someone isn't being very nice.
2007-02-12 06:19:28 · update #1
If we take all of Christian mythology at its word, there is no motive for the Devil to do horrible things to people (the bet for Job was pretty cruel but God didn't give him back the loved ones he lost he just gave him lots of strangers). His only motive would be to tell his "truth" that God is arrogant, mean and not worth worshipping. If you read the Bible, the Devil says nothing but truth. He tells Adam and Eve that the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge would give them knowledge, not death. It did, it only gave them knowledge, God gave them death.
Lets say that the Christians are right, I'm all for Hell. All the best of the world are there, I will go to the place with Socrates, Ghandi, Aristotle, Homer, Einstein, Gallileo, Darwin, all of mankind's best. Heaven can keep the freaky evangelists, the mournful priests and the scary bigots and fundametalists.
2007-02-12 06:04:01 · answer #1 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are able to not make him convert or listen if he chooses no longer to. you are able to easily alienate him more beneficial and push him away even more beneficial through doing so. And when you're Catholic then you quite want to envision what the Catholic Church concerning "being kept". The Chatechism of the Catholic Church really says that in the loving mercy of God, if someone who has no longer been baptized has the opportunity of transferring into eternal paradise as long as that individual has lived an effective and moral existence and is sorry for his sins. So there continues to be a probability. Ask you pastor, he will say an similar aspect.
2016-12-04 02:18:19 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually he isn't. But one of the smartest thing he ever did was convince some people that he is their friend. If they ever found the truth, being '' Satan hates his own as much as he does those children of God", then they would sit down right in their steps and cry.
2007-02-12 05:58:12 · answer #3 · answered by Heaven's Messenger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How you figure? God allowed the Devil to take away all Job had but Job never waivered in his devotion to God. As a result, God blessed him 10 fold more than he previously had.
2007-02-12 06:03:15 · answer #4 · answered by Gummy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god's full of shite! Not that I believe in either, because religion invented both, but I'd rather go to hell and hang out with the devil. Red's more my colour than white and at least we know it'll be nice and warm there ... and we can be naughty!
2007-02-12 06:04:04 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, easy would have been if the devil had taken his wife... Since he still had to put up with her it wasn't "easy."
2007-02-12 05:58:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what you want for friends? Figures.
2007-02-12 06:54:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh, the Devil will be your friend alright....
but he will not tell you his price until it is too late.
God's friendship has no price.
It is His free gift.
2007-02-12 05:58:51 · answer #8 · answered by Chef Bob 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if he has won your heart and mind, he may seem that way.
2007-02-12 05:59:27 · answer #9 · answered by trucker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋