Christians: If you could, would you...?

Question

I saw someone answer the would kill Satan if the were God for a day. It raised an interesting question in my mind. You can't have good with out evil, joy with out sorrow, life with out death. Its a balance. And with out Satan there would be no hell. So would people ask for grace? The question is
Would you kill Satan if you could?

For the sake of this excersize assume all things are equal. And besides if you were God, you could make the rules.

Believe in Jesus, I'm not a Christian LOLOL Its just a question I was curious about.

Answer 1

Wow. This is an impressively complex question, one I'd never even considered before.

I'm not (currently) a Christian, but if I were, I think I would likely not kill Satan. I mean, the guy's in Hell already; if you kill him, he'd probably just go straight back there like a bad respawn. And then he'd also know you, and, well, you can imagine that not going well. Besides... if you really get down to it, he's doing a really good job of following God's orders in his current place; why remove him and replace him with someone who -can't- do as well as he can (as he is supposedly second only to God in power of all sorts)?

Not only that, but... well, God must've left him in existence for a reason, so why would one presume to know that reason? Also, as you say, if you were God, you could make the rules, and therefore you could make good exist without evil; in fact, you could banish any and all dualities from ever existing or needing to exist at all.

Also worth noting is that, if you were God for a day, you would have to have all of your human flaws stripped away. I believe that doing so would also change your answer to this question - if not in the act, then in the motivation for the act. So in truth, it's not really possible to answer this question, as one cannot be sure what one might gain knowledge of in ascending to God's power.

Answer 2

Yes, no question. Although, evil would still remain in the hearts of men. Read Jeremiah 17:9-10, Matt 15:18-19 and Rom 3:23. I don't see Satan is the ying to God's yang. But rather, that mankind since the garden and through today has and continues to choose to disobey God in all forms.

Answer 3

I sure would. I think there can be good without evil, joy without sorrow, and life without death. It will happen when Satan has finally been "cast into the lake of fire". If I could do that right now, I would.

Answer 4

I would never presume to be as knowledgable & wise as God is. I prefer to allow God to be God & trust Him. After all I am created & He is uncreated. Besides, one could not kill Satan as he was created outside of time & is immortal.

Good can exist without evil; it did & it will. It is God who is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, not Satan. God is uncreated & is the definition of good. Satan is created & although immortal has definite limits. To say that 'good cannot exist without evil' is to say that God couldn't exist without Satan. It's a nonsensical statement. You cannot even know what evil is except that it is the antithesis of good, so good had to exist first without evil. The Bible tells us that God is uncreated & Satan is created. God existed without Satan, therefore good can & must exist without evil.

Now, the converse of that statement "Evil cannot exist without good," is true. The same applies to God's Law. You cannot say that something contrary to the Law can exist without the object that it's contrary to existing first. There first has to be objective laws that don't change, before humans can try to manipulate & change them (make them evil).

This is exactly what God does in the Garden of Eden. He merely sets down an immutable law & tells Adam & Eve about it. "If you eat of the tree of knowledge of good & evil, you will surely die." That wasn't going to change. It was Satan who deceived Eve & Adam into the lie that this objective truth changes. I would imagine (& this is speculation but hear me out) that something similar happened when Satan himself rebelled. God said, "I am immutable (unchangable)." Satan challenged Him in some way and there was the beginning of evil.

Jesus set Satan straight when He was tempted with the same ideas (Matthew 4:1-11). Jesus then having fulfilled God's unchanging Law took upon Himself the wrath & punishment we deserved--death. And Satan not only tries to deceive us, but deceived himself into thinking that (1) God would spare His own Son thus proving that the Law that God set forth in the Garden of Eden was indeed changable (i.e. the wages of sin is death). (2) (and after having been proved wrong on that count) that the Son of the Immutable God could stay dead! Ah ha! God may have looked as if He was giving into Satan's blaspheme, but NO! Jesus indeed died & now indeed lives & proves that God indeed is Immutable!

Praise be to the Immutable God over all! Jesus Christ our Lord!

Answer 5

The law of God says Thou Shalt Not Kill.

Answer 6

No need to for the Enemy's day is coming anyway when he and the false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire for eternity...never to deceit mankind again.

Answer 7

they are actually not Jews simply by fact Jew's do no longer have faith the messiah has come yet. they do no longer have faith Jesus so believing in Jesus and asserting your Jewish needless to say contradicts one yet another.... it incredibly is unhappy that there are those Evangelist Christians that decision themselves "Jews". quit this custom now, your disgracing the two Judaism and Christianity.

Answer 8

Blasphemer, you are not a true Christian, to take the name of God in such vain. You will be punished for your sin, you blasphemer!

Answer 9

He is dead only alive in the legacy of evil he has left for this world.

Answer 10

oh yes you CAN HAVE GOOD WITHOUT EVIL....EVERYTHING was perfect in Eden till satan ruined it
my answer is NO cuz he will suffer ALOT MORE BEING ALIVE AND OUT OF CONTROL AND UNABLE TO TEMPT HUMANS ever again once he is thrown into the pit and he deserves it!!!