Did God plan for Satan to rebel and to be driven out of Heaven? If so, than does that mean that God is the author of sin and evil, or that he planned Satan's actions for a particular purpose?
Or, if God did not plan for Satan to do what he did, then does that mean that Angels had free will, and Satan made the choice to do what he did on his own?
I find this story fascinating, but it has never made total sense to me.
What do you think about it?
2007-06-09 03:13:51 · 8 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is where the ideas of monotheism in general and Christianity in particular really break down. God is supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent. This means that he knows all things and has power over them. Most Christians will speak of god's plan and so on, while simultaneously speaking of our free will. However, if we have free will, but god already knows what we will do as our creator and the master planner of reality, then free will is really a joke. I have also heard it said the angels do not have free will, but were created to praise god and serve god. So, how did Satan rebel if that was not a part of god's plan? God would have had to create Satan with the capacity to rebel. God cannot be all powerful and all good. Either god is all good, and Satan is responsible for all evil - and outside of god's control or agreement (thus meaning god is not all powerful), or god must be partially evil. Saying that it is for our own good and so on does not change the fact that, if god has domain and control over evil and its expression, god is not all good.
2007-06-09 03:18:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Given that christians believe that god is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient it must, by their own logic, follow that god knew this would happen, and that he also had the power to prevent it happening. Therefore the sole source of evil must be god, for the reasons I stated above, and also because the christians own bible states that god is the creator of everything.
Makes you wonder how anyone could worship such a being, who at best is portrayed as being ammoral in his supposedly own holy word, and in fact is repeatedly demonstrated to be unjust, inconsistent, vindicative and immoral, doesn't it? Talk about damned out of his own alleged mouth.
2007-06-09 03:22:31 · answer #2 · answered by Nodality 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God doesn't plan. He purposes.
But to answer your question.
God produced all his creations with a choice.
Satan and a 3rd of his angels choose not to serve God's purposes. So after the war in heaven, Satan and his friends were thrown out of heaven by Jesus.
It was a matter of choice. As it was with Adam to disobey. A matter of choice.
I and my family choose to serve God through out eternity.
2007-06-09 03:26:23 · answer #3 · answered by Wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
maybe God did not want Satan to rebel, and maybe Satan had some sort of a choice
God gave Adam and eve the choice to do what they want he warned them but he didn't push them to do what he wants, he wanted them to do it with their own will and ,still they fell.
God did not interfere because it was Adam choice and responsibility.
God did not intend that to happen but he did know that it might happen
2007-06-09 03:54:43 · answer #4 · answered by SArah 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If everything is god's plan, that too must be.
And Tsunami and Katrina, 9/11 also included.
2007-06-09 03:17:15 · answer #5 · answered by X Theist 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
of course, as well as his plan for Judas to betray Christ as it is written in the NT.
2007-06-09 03:18:00 · answer #6 · answered by momof2 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God is all powerfull.
2007-06-09 03:24:45 · answer #7 · answered by allahdevil1 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They chose.
2007-06-09 05:21:36 · answer #8 · answered by Sweet Suzy 777! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋