No more evil would mean that we all go to heaven. Why does God not destroy Satan so that we all go to heaven?
2007-05-30 01:49:40 · 17 answers · asked by john inquisitive 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is perfectly righteous and all sin therefore needs to be punished. God in no way will excuse the guilty.
Why continue with the world? - because God has come to seek and save those that are lost. When the last believer is saved then the end will come.
2007-05-30 02:00:37 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has set a time...but it is Jesus, his son, who will destroy Satan.
And it has to be done...LEGALLY,
All the angels are looking on. To just use his POWER, would prove nothing. Even dictators can use power indiscriminately.
God is not a dictator,
He is perfect in Love, justice, wisdom and lastly, power.
As to hell. It will vanish along with death.
(Revelation 21:4) And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Ha′des were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire.
Hades [ Hell] is simply man's grave. no death=no graves
2007-05-30 02:15:29 · answer #2 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question, i've got given this plenty theory to and in many circumstances ask your self why God did not destroy devil. fantastically pondering what devil could do and the incontrovertible fact that he could lead on billions of human beings to hell. became into letting devil run rampant greater important than their lives? yet he curiously loves all, with each and all of the suffering human beings have persevered in all areas of the worldwide i'm not feeling susceptible to have faith that. each and every from time to time i'm reminded of a youngster enjoying The sims and losing interest. For those of you acquainted with the Maxis sequence, you comprehend precisely what I propose. @ Alex: this way of contradictory assertion is an somewhat very undesirable thank you to start a controversy, or a sentence for that count. the only answer I even have won inspite of asking this one hundred circumstances, is that God placed devil in charge of Earth after he have been given kicked out of heaven, so it in truth grew to grow to be the devil's kingdom. This will strengthen greater questions than it solutions. could you supply all you your satisfaction and amusement, all your useful possessions to somebody you comprehend will absoutely trash them given the alternative with the aid of fact they hate you? As you stated, it does not make experience. If God had to wipe all evil off the face of the earth by potential of inflicting the deluge known with the aid of fact the super Flood of Genesis, why did he bypass away devil alive? The flood acheived not something (and with fact, the top results of the flood, is senseless the two). Then on real of all of that, became into devil a moron? Why could you start up a conflict with an all-powerful deity, or riot. Makes devil look omnistupid.
2016-10-30 04:52:07 · answer #3 · answered by detkowski 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The day is coming that this will happen and satan will be thrown into the pit. Even then we will NOT all be with God in heaven, we have to make the choice to accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour!
Rather you go to heaven or hell, it's your choice, God gave us choices to make in life and there will be consequences to those choices. No one not even God can decide for you where you will spend eternity, although it is NOT His choice that ANY perish in the pits of hell! He would love nothing more then for all to come to HIM and live for all eternity!
2007-05-30 04:03:07 · answer #4 · answered by cmac 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God as you say is powerfull. May I correct you that Lucifer and his followers are angels created by God. They are immortals..so He do not destroy what He has created. Even Abraham were put to test. They are not evil for God gave them brains to freely think but angels are not capable to change not like man. Man is capable of knowing and choosing what is right and what is wrong, so man is capable to change. God did not promise you heaven but eternal life. so you must earn it. Live a righteous way, but even the righteous must enter a needle hole.
2007-05-30 02:05:22 · answer #5 · answered by dandy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that would make too much sense.
Fear is an integral part of many religions & without fear you have no followers.
What do you think would keep followers? Saying "you're all going to heaven no matter what because the devil has been destroyed.... so go and live your lives and be happy"..... Or "You must stay here in church, repent, donate 10% of your income to the church, get down on your knees & pray all the time for if you do not you will burn in eternal hellfire for your sins" ?? Which do you think would keep people coming back to the church?
2007-05-30 01:53:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because God created Satan.
2007-05-30 01:52:33 · answer #7 · answered by Lynnemarie 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We need to be worthy of Heaven. If we had nothing to fight against, our love and faith and devotion would mean nothing. It means much more to God that we overcome evil and temptation, and that when we don't, we come to Him for forgiveness.
2007-05-30 02:00:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Payday is coming for Lucifer, but it will be in God's time, not ours.
When Cain murdered His brother God preserved Him. Likewise even when Satan killed Jesus, the controversy must go on.
Had God destroyed Cain, then the universe, who had never seen sin or murder before would wondered why God killed him. But after the earth was filled with violence and God destroyed it, then God was vindicated; in fact, he commanded Noah to be exocutioner for those who take another man's life.
Likewise, God preserved Lucifer--yes, He could have killed His accuser, but spared him. But pay-day is coming. That will be after, as Jesus says, "everything done in secret will be revealed." And after the universe studys the full effects of Lucifer's rebellion, then his end is assured.
This is described by the prophet Ezekiel 28:18, 19: "Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
"All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt] thou [be] any more."
OOPS! Your preacher didn't tell you that--Lucifer is not shoveling coal on you through eternity because payday, "the wages of sin, is death"
Read more on God's plan to save the world at www.revelado.org/revealed.htm
Blessings, One-Way
2007-05-30 01:59:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Bcoz God created gud and evil.The temptations are to test us.Also there always has to be a balance to counter the motion.Things wud go haywire otherwise.
It's the same thing as male and female or moving energy and stagnant energy.
2007-05-30 01:55:13 · answer #10 · answered by Rida 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋