God is, well, God. Omnipotent and all. Satan, Lucifer, the Devil, whatever, is a fallen angel, one of God's creations.
How is this in any way an equal match? How come god didn't squash that little angel he created like a bug or 'uncreate' him?
2007-03-15 04:55:08 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Omnipotent: ALL-powerful. Doesn't that say it all? An Omnipotent being could reverse immortality if so inclined. Otherwise, he is NOT omnipotent.
2007-03-15 05:01:10 · update #1
Good question.
At best Lucifer is as powerful as Michal or Gabriel. He's not a threat to God. Just to people. And personally I think the devil gets credit for a lot of stuff he didn't do. (I'm pretty sure Eve was thinking 'I wonder what that apple tastes like' before the snake showed up). It's more comfortable to blame some evil goblin than it is to see the evil that lurks in the heart of men (. . . . yes I know that the line came from The Shadow, get off my back).
I don't think it is God's nature to un-create or destroy things that have turned away from him. Technically I'm sure he could just flick Satan away like a bug. And as much as I hate to fall back on the old chestnut 'God's ways or not our ways' I'm sure there is a reason why God lets Satan hang around (even if I would have gotten rid of the little creep).
2007-03-15 05:24:51 · answer #1 · answered by LX V 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
So that nobody could be left saying "oh, the Devil was right." If he had killed the Devil when he had first sinned, what about the other angels who witnessed this? God wants to prove a point, so that there is no doubt that the Devil was way Wrrrrrrrrrong.
By the way all this took place on Neptune. LOL
2007-03-15 05:01:34 · answer #2 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Equal in power? No way. God created Lucifer perfectly as an arch angel before evil was found in him so God cast him out of heaven.
2007-03-15 05:05:02 · answer #3 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not an equal match. It's like you and your grown son messing around with the grandkids or something.
I don't like to quote much, and this is really long, but I did spend a bit of time finding it. The Book of Job.
God and Satan have a conversation. Satan says " I bet Job will loose faith" and God says " Oh, no, he won't."---It's a game. God needs company and amusement, too.
2007-03-15 14:38:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
god didn't squash him because god is too lazy to go around squashing little angels that turned evil. I don't really even see a reason why the angel fell. But I think that god didn't squash him because he is a sissy being a saint and all that, he's probably to scared to kill that little angel with rabies gone bad.
2007-03-15 10:09:54 · answer #5 · answered by Blueberry. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It appears from the Bible that evil some serves some good purpose, or else God would not allow it to exist.
From the Old Testament especially, it appears that God manipulates Satan to get evil to do God's will, irregardless of the fact that Satan doesn't really want to (Satan is tricked into it by reverse psychology in the book of Job, for example).
The main difference between good angels and evil angels is that good angels serve God on purpose, while evil angels serve God only after being tricked into it by God himself.
The interaction between good and evil is a little more complex than you suppose.
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So the king of Israel brought together the prophets—about four hundred men—and asked them, "Shall I go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?"
"Go," they answered, "for the Lord will give it into the king's hand."
But Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there not a prophet of the LORD here whom we can inquire of?"
The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah."
"The king should not say that," Jehoshaphat replied.
So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, "Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once." ...
...Micaiah continued, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD : I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the host of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left. And the LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?'
"One suggested this, and another that. Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD and said, 'I will entice him.'
" 'By what means?' the LORD asked.
" 'I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said.
" 'You will succeed in enticing him,' said the LORD. 'Go and do it.'
"So now the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The LORD has decreed disaster for you."
Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. "Which way did the spirit from the LORD go when he went from me to speak to you?" he asked.
Micaiah replied, "You will find out on the day you go to hide in an inner room."
The king of Israel then ordered, "Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon the ruler of the city and to Joash the king's son and say, 'This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.' "
Micaiah declared, "If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me." Then he added, "Mark my words, all you people!"
~1 Kings 22:6-9 & 19-28 (NIV)
2007-03-15 05:11:33 · answer #6 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the incontrovertible fact that the alien is masquerading as God could recommend that it may be pretending to be some thing that's not. the two its pretense could be got here across by employing its strikes or it could make a mistake in some unspecified time interior the destiny, in all probability using fact it may be appearing like it *thinks* God "ought to" act.
2016-09-30 23:15:25 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are not equal. Satan fell because he tried to make himself equal to God.
It isn't an even match. God is allowing Satan to run free right now, but actually if you read Job, Satan still has to ask permission to pick on us. God only allows him to do to us what He knows we can handle.
In God's perfect wisdom, He created a perfect world, which means He gave us free will. He gave us an assignment, He gave us the choice, and He set it all in motion. We haven't completed our mission yet, so God is still allowing Satan to run around messing with things. We have to have choice, or this isn't a perfect world.
Satan already knows that his team loses, but he's trying to drag as many of us down with him as he can before the buzzer sounds.
2007-03-15 05:01:33 · answer #8 · answered by BaseballGrrl 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
From the lore it seems that God is not all-powerful without the power of Satan. It seems from the mythology that God needs to "test" us somehow. Without an "evil" alternative there is no test.
2007-03-15 04:59:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
uncreate? I guess because angels and humans are spirit beings, and spirits, like God, cannot be destroyed. it's a supernatural law.
oh, and he'll be introduced to the bug zapper soon enough...
2007-03-15 04:59:57 · answer #10 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋