Question for the atheists who claimed to know more than me about my own religion...?

Question

The last question was too easy to find by google search.

Here's a better one for them...

In Revelation, it is written that God locked Satan away for about 1000 years. It is believed by the most notable Biblical scholars that this already happened in history.

What event in history marked the beginning of that long period of time that Satan was locked away, and what would be the purpose of God locking Satan away for that amount of time?

I already know that atheists don't believe in God, but can they pretend for a minute that they do believe and answer the question anyway?
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Wow, reereecreek came very close. In a way, he has it but not quite.
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Here's the answer:

Satan gets locked up:
313 Constantine legalizes Christianity & all religions in the Edict of Milan

The purpose for God to lock Satan away:
To give the Church a chance to spread the gospel of Christ to all nations on earth.

Satan gets released:
1308 Beginning of “Babylonian Captivity” of the Papacy in Avignon, France
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After Satan is released the Church experiences more problems and persecutions that it had had since the persecutions of the early Christians before Constantine.
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Answer 1

Destruction of Babylon.

So the kings of Earth could spread God's message unhindered, supposedly.

Answer 2

If it did happen, then I put to you that there is no period of history where there is no war or evil deed committed for 1000 years, thus God must therefore be responsible for any wrongdoing during that time, since Satan was... indisposed, which then raises the question of whether Satan is really responsible for ANY of the so called evil acts of humanity, or more likely, God is an evil smelly turniphead who has been using poor Satan as a scapegoat. Oh, and if God can lock Satan up, why doesn't he throw away the key and keep Satan locked up permanently?

Answer 3

this is what it is in Revelation
Rev 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Rev 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Rev 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
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Answer 4

There really aren't any "most notable" Biblical scholars on this matter, because different groups among the ones that think it's already happened believe different things. Some belive it was the fall of the Byzantine Empire, some event recent enough for 1000 years not to have passed, but distant enough to make it looming... But others, including most Catholics (I believe you're catholic, correct?) seem to be mostly hung up on the fall of Jerusalem/the temple in 70 AD.

Answer 5

Hey, I am a Christian and I would like to know when God locked Satan away for about 1000 years. As far as I understand this is still a future event.

Answer 6

faith has many times been a gadget to justify war. Even chilly wars. case in point; Reagan declared the Soviet Union to be a godless evil empire, which in a roundabout way justified an hands race. George W. Bush referred to as our war in Iraq a campaign. of direction, interior the top that's approximately economics and administration. yet to assert faith isn't a component that excites and/or entices the commonplace public into accepting war is naive. EDIT: first easy C, have faith what you will. yet maximum leaders use faith to motivate their armies, inspite of what the war is extremely approximately. understand what meaning? It ability that faith is in a roundabout way in charge. What did Pol Pot do? What did Caesar do? What did Stalin do? all of them used faith in one form or yet another to motivate their armies. the incredibly war reasons are particularly over territory and wealth. EDIT: Stalin used Christianity while it grew to become into maximum handy to regulate the Christian inhabitants in Russia. He knew the ability it had. Stalin extensively utilized a state faith, a form of religion the place human beings have been to worship Stalin and his government (such because of the fact the flag) as suitable ruler. it incredibly remains faith. Hitler did a similar component. Pol Pot used faith to dumb down his human beings and killed off the knowledgeable, or "re-knowledgeable" them interior the killing fields. There disbelief in a supernatural being is neither right here nor there. they might've merely as surely worshiped Chuthulu and had executed the appropriate same issues. EDIT: All of what you copied and pasted is particularly moot provided that faith drives lots deeper and is no longer constrained to supernatural beings. soccer, case in point, is a form of religion for an excellent form of human beings. on the different hand, atheism isn't homogeneous in terms of philosophies and concepts. for this reason, you have somebody like Stalin be an atheist and somebody like Phyllis Diller be an atheist, besides.

Answer 7

I am afraid you are mistaken. Satan will not be locked away until the end of the Great Tribulation. This has not happened yet.
(I am a Christian...Assembly of GOD to be exact)

Answer 8

It's twice removed from reality....one, that (as you mentioned) god is real, and two, that your particular interpretation of some random event is actually *the* event that your religious text cryptically refers too.
So, no....I have no idea what event you believe marks the beginning of your interpretation of "the end of the world".

Answer 9

if this already happened then armageddon would have already happened and Jesus would be ruling, so I dont get what your asking ?

Lock him away for some peace on earth for a change.

Answer 10

Satan is mythology. The bible is fiction.