Didn't he create everyone? If so, why did he create people that don't believe in him? And why are there so many other things that make you wonder?
2007-03-21 14:41:05 · 31 answers · asked by ænima 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well Satan loves me then.
2007-03-21 14:52:40 · update #1
it's called rational thinking
2007-03-21 14:50:41 · answer #1 · answered by lnfrared Loaf 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sam this is a very simple minded question. Satan does NOT love anyone or anything and GOD did not create ppl to be anything but loved by HIM and to love HIM. There are things that make you wonder for many reasons...some of those things you chose to wonder about or doubt (I think that would be a better word here). No one can make you believe good things about your Creator but it is you who will suffer now and later.
2007-03-21 23:46:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did not create people that did not believe in him. God created people and placed us in a utopic environment till Eve with the help of the devil changed the course of everything. God's initial intent was to make us so we could give him glory. But with everything changing, God gave us free will. He told us, if u dont want to do things my way, and u ate out of the tree of evil and knowledge when i told u not to, then u know what, i am going to give u a reprobate mind. and now the world is in a situation where we initially knew Gods heart but now we are so far away and this whole worldly experience is about finding our way back to God. Yes God is an angry God but he is also a God of love. He has punished humanity over and over again for our sins but yet he accepts us as long as we confess our sins, accept jesus christ and live according to his will for us. that is where the choice comes in. he has all the cards laid out, there is no secret to it, u just have to choose him. he wants u to choose him.
2007-03-21 23:56:43 · answer #3 · answered by braille 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God Almighty created and endowed us with certain faculties or powers, one of which is lust. If we use this power improperly and thus harm ourselves, it can only be our fault. God gave us this power so that we may reproduce the species in the proper manner and be promoted to higher spiritual ranks by resisting our carnal self’s illicit suggestions. It is the same with anger. God Almighty gave it to us so that we can defend ourselves and our religious and social values, not to hurt others. Therefore, if an uncontrolled burst of angers causes us to kill someone, it is our fault, not Destiny’s.
Destiny relates to the cause and the effect together at the same time. If we judge only by considering the effect, usually we make mistakes. For example, if we accuse a father of abusing his daughter while he is only trying to discipline her because he likes her or so that she may reform herself and learn how to behave properly, we would be wronging the father. While judging any event, we should consider all related information. If we will cannot see any good in it, we should tell ourselves that whatever God does is good either in itself or in its consequences, and never accuse Destiny. This is what is meant by the following verse: It may be that you dislike a thing although it is good for you, and love a thing although it is bad for you. God knows but you know not (2.216).
In such calamities as earthquakes or floods, God usually does not choose between the good and the evil or the innocent and the guilty. Such calamities fall on everyone, for they are part of the tests and trials prepared for us and serve His purpose. However, in return for undergoing such calamities, good and innocent people will receive a great reward in the Hereafter. Also, it should be pointed out that sometimes God uses such calamities to punish such people because they do not try to enjoin what is good and prevent what is evil.
Whatever God does is the best and most proper. So, we should try to see His wisdom behind the good He bestows on us and the suffering to which He subjects us.
2007-03-21 23:33:49 · answer #4 · answered by BeHappy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did not 'create' a-t-h-e-i-s-t-s. He created the person that was taught to be an atheist by other atheists, i.e. parents and others that do not believe in God. There are so many other things that make you wonder because noone can know everything. As for things about God, there are mysteries about God that no man shall ever know.
2007-03-21 21:52:48 · answer #5 · answered by Darryl L 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah God did not create atheists, Christians, or people of any particular religion, any more than he created the Devil. We were all created with free will and a spiritual need, a need to worship. If and how we attempt to fulfill that need is matter of personal choice. The Devil was an angel like any other when he chose to reject his proper place in Jehovah's arrangement.
2007-03-21 21:51:03 · answer #6 · answered by shibboleth839505 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think the idea is that he didn't create atheists. Adam, Eve and Jesus were the only three people he was actually supposed to have created himself, and all three would have been religious. Atheists would have been created by other people and then ended up not believing in God.
Of course, as an atheist I don't believe God created anyone at all or even existed.
2007-03-21 21:45:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
People are born without the knowledge of God and without religious belief of any kind. Therefore, everyone is born an atheist. Learning and choices to believe come later.
2007-03-21 21:49:06 · answer #8 · answered by thezaylady 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
God gave everyone free will. He does not want automatons to do his bidding, He wants people who will choose to love Him. The problem is that we live in a fallen world full of sin. Therefore, a Holy God cannot reveal Himself directly, we couldn't handle it.
I think it is something like this. Satan was an angel in Heaven. He could see and interact with God everyday and yet he chose to rebel. Therefore, God requires of us the test of faith that we cannot see Him for ourselves. Because we are supposed to be higher creations than the angels. Sadly, that leads to people who decide they don't believe.
2007-03-21 21:51:23 · answer #9 · answered by Sharon M 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
People aren't born atheists. God may have made the people, but Satan turned them to atheism. A little child has a natural inclination to believe in God. It's just that some of those children are sent off to the brainwashing camps called "public schools" where they have it rammed down their throat that "there is no God" and that they "came from monkeys" - and the kids are expected to believe it. In fact, if they resist, they will be ridiculed.
God gave people Free Will; that child may continue in his atheism, or he may decide to learn the Truth, and turn back to that childlike faith he used to have, and lean not on his own understanding, but trust in God.
2007-03-21 21:50:20 · answer #10 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
God created people who don't obey him so that others who are obedience to him can know that they are on the right way ... for example if you have two ways leading to the house, you cannot know that one way is so long and dark unless there is another that is shorter and clear........ is it clear ?!
2007-03-21 22:05:56 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋