2007-03-29 06:13:44 · 4 answers · asked by SATAN 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"But deliver us from evil."
The last petition to our Father is also included in Jesus' prayer: "I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one." (Jn 17:15)
In this petition, evil is not an abstraction, but refers to a person, Satan, the Evil One, the angel who opposes God.
The devil is the one who "throws himself across" God's plan and his work of salvation accomplished in Christ.
The Bible teaches that Satan is a fallen angel. Scripture sees in this being a fallen angel, called "Satan" or the "devil". (Cf. Jn 8:44; Rev 12:9)
Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: "The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing."
Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels. (2 Pet 2:4) This "fall" consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign.
The devil "has sinned from the beginning"; he is "a liar and the father of lies." (1 Jn 3:8; Jn 8:44)
It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels' sin unforgivable. "There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death."
Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls "a murderer from the beginning," who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father. (Jn 8:44; cf. Mt 4:1-11)
"The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil." (1 Jn 3:8)
The power of Satan is, nonetheless, not infinite.
He is only a creature, powerful from the fact that he is pure spirit, but still a creature.
He cannot prevent the building up of God's reign.
With love in Christ.
2007-03-29 17:29:40 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you ask that question, I believe you have no understanding of how disasterous satan/lucifer is!! He coerces and entices people into believeing what is wrong with him...people who chose to believe and follow him have got issues with values.
Satan/lucifer makes you think you are doing the right thing by being materialistic, selfish, greedy, etc and "what's wrong with that?", well it doesn't bring you peace, all you want is the next thing. You start losing values and get further and further away from what God has said is what he wants us to do. God gives peace and asks for love. Satan/lucifer does the opposite.
2007-04-01 06:58:32 · answer #2 · answered by mareeclara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love Satan, and I have prayed for him to return to God
2007-03-30 16:37:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because he's the cause of everything evil and wrong in the world. What kinda question is this??
2007-03-29 19:47:02 · answer #4 · answered by sparrowbird06 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋