Do give credit to man and Satan for all that is negative, bad or evil in this world is to sell your God short. To say that is to say that God didn't create the world knowing that this negativity would be produced. But since God is all knowing we can only come to the conclusion that God in fact did create this world, with all dieases, all the wars, all the greed, and jealousy, and hatred on purpose.
Either bad things happen because God designed it as so, God isn't all powerful, or God doesn't exist.
So as we clearly see the only way you can blame Satan for anything is if God isn't all powerful, and the only way you can blame man is if God doesn't exist. Otherwise anything that happens can only be part of God's plan, or God doesn't have 100% control.
So stop blaming man, or Satan if you believe in an omnipotent God.
2007-07-02 14:03:07 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The first word should be "to", not "do", and feel free to figure out any other errors on your own, cheers.
2007-07-02 14:04:14 · update #1
We give credit where credit is due.
Credit for everything Good, and everything given to us is given to G-d who created and sustains us.
Credit for sin belongs to man.
Credit for Evil belongs to the Prince of Darkness.
2007-07-02 14:05:57 · answer #1 · answered by John W 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
God does know everything. God uses the things that happen because of our misuse of the free will He gave us to help us and teach us. He gives all the opportunity to run to Him. He gives one side, Satan gives an apposing side...and we choose whom we will serve. Period. WE CHOOSE. God won't force us and Satan can't.
God has all power...but allows us to determin when we allow him to use it in our lives. Satan has only the power of persuasion, and he is good at it, so we GIVE HIM more power than he actually has over our lives. WE CHOOSE.
People, This life is about us...not God, not Satan, but each and everyone of us. It is about our choices and what we choose to do with the time we have here to learn and grow. Some have a short time some longer.
God has nothing better to do...because we are the reason for everything that happens here. We are the reason for this earth to exist. We are not unimportant. We are VERY important...to God.
Guys...this is a test. This life is a test. Some tests are horrible and some are easy. In the end...it is just the most important test any of us will ever have. This test determins What we will be doing for the next eternity. Will we progress or will we not. Will we wish we had never even accepted the opportunity to take the test...or do we trust our teacher, our guide, our Father and work through the process the way he has taught? OUR CHOICE. None of this has to do with what happens to us and EVERYTHING to do with what WE our response to any given situation.
2007-07-02 14:30:28 · answer #2 · answered by LDS~Tenshi~ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First off, not everyone of us is as ignorant as that. If your going to judge us all on the actions of the ignorant few, I could ask you why do some atheist and others who have fallen away from faith blame God for everything bad that happens in this world. Second, you said to stop blaming man or satan which would leave people reading this with only one person left to blame, and that would be god. Clever little snake. God did make this world full of misery, but it's man who's choices in the end either magnify the suffering and misery or alleviate it, so therefore man can only in the end blame himself.
2007-07-02 14:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by sai 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're close! So close it's painful, darling!
Here's how it really goes:
There's evil in this world. Supposedly, it's man's fault or Satan's fault. Doesn't matter which, really, because if there is evil and there is God we have two options:
God is all-powerful and he's a jerk in not relieving us OR He's not all-powerful and he can't help it. (Yes, nonexistence is a possibility, too.)
If God is omnipotent, wouldn't he have known Adam and Eve would eat the forbidden fruit? Or, hey, didn't he know that Lucifer would fall? If He's all-knowing and all-powerful then he must have known we'd face suffering, and since he's all-powerful he could give us peace, but he doesn't. What a jerk.
Maybe God isn't all-powerful after all. Perhaps He has a limited power and limited knowledge and that's why there was even any fall. If he's limited in His power it would make sense that He couldn't just /fix/ things. So, good doesn't necessarily overcome evil. That just sucks!
No God? Oh, that's just depressing...
So, it's your choice, guys! ;D
(Note: There could also be some sort of "ultimate plan" but, quite frankly, it's looking pretty mean to me.)
2007-07-02 14:12:30 · answer #4 · answered by Diavola 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"So stop blaming man, or Satan if you believe in an omnipotent God." Our entire justice system is designed with the understand that we can produce evidence that a man has committed a crime. So we have centuries of evidence that man has done evil.
What evidence could you produce in court that will let man off the hook and place the blame solely on God? No judge would take the case. No attorney would touch it. You would be laughed out of court!
2007-07-02 15:18:57 · answer #5 · answered by Steve Husting 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your logic is flawed because you simply ignore the free will of everyone - not just the good people. Those being influenced by evil (call it Satan, the Devil or even simple old-time greed) will cause bad things to happen to good people. God didn't create puppets - he created thinking, independent beings - would you rather that we were puppets - I wouldn't.
God's design and plan is perfect - we, in our finite wisdom (or lack of it) make the messes and then blame Him.
Um - lumping all Christians together is kind of "profiling" - don't you think?
2007-07-02 14:12:16 · answer #6 · answered by Patti R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is Satan's fault. He can only present a choice to you. If you choose that path, deal with the consequences. That is all about freewill and you can't explain away why some people do bad things and blame it on the devil. When you get down to it, it's their fault. As far as the kid in Africa, is that God's fault? To an extent, probably. He could intervene but for some reason or another, He doesn't. I don't know why. Was the Earth meant to be full of suffering? No. Adam & Eve chose that for all of us. Again, another result of choosing badly and suffering for it. I have no idea why God doesn't make more rain in Africa. Perhaps He wants people who have a good life to help those people out. I can't explain things like that because I'm not God. It's not fair and it's not right but then again, life isn't fair and no one is above suffering. There are people in this country starving to death everyday. Is that God's fault or the people who don't help them because they're looked at as lazy or bums? We all have the power to change bad things yet most of us just complain or want a God to be like a genie and fix things for us. He helps those that can't always help themselves. Besides, there's no way to tell if that child or her tribe exsessively sinned. Just because you sin, that doesn't mean your life is bad and just because you're good, that doesn't mean your life will be easy peasy. My mom is a pretty righteous woman. She's gone through so much crap but she's a good person and believes in God. She doesn't blame God for the bad things. She questions Him but she deals with and moves on. There's no happiness/no suffering card for believing in God. You don't believe in God to have a good life. If you do that, you're going to be disappointed because bad stuff will happen. You can't expect God to step in all the time. He's denied constantly and hurt all the time. He's not there just for the bad times. He's not there to "fix" things. If you don't like something, change it. Quit trying to blame God for the state of the world and help out your fellow man. If you're that concerned with Africa, join the Peace Corps and help out or send money to them.
2016-05-17 04:35:44 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe god wanted faithful servants who CHOSE to serve him. if you were god, would you make man with the intention of MAKING them serve you? wouldn't you have that feeling deep down that they aren't choosing to love and obey you? i think it's awesome that he was so loving as to give us a choice, even though out of our free will we are doing evil as we speak! satan IS the root of all evil becuase he is the one from the start that persuaded eve that it was alright to eat from the tree of good and evil and from that we lost the privledge of staying with god in the garden of eden. GOSH! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT GOD THINKS! SO DON'T EVEN BEGIN TO PRETEND YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HIS CHOICES! you knew what was gonna come from this question so why did you ask it! you believe what you want to believe and just leave us alone.
oh, and god CHOOSES not to USE (at the moment anyways) the 100% control he has over us and every other thing!
2007-07-02 14:20:23 · answer #8 · answered by WickedWest 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indeed the only way anyone can blame Satan, or say that humans are sinful is to say that God is NOT all powerful because he did not have domain over the evil or sin. Afterall if he was all powerful, and sin was so unacceptable, he would've created a sinless world so that we all could live in a love factory.
2007-07-02 14:08:21 · answer #9 · answered by Teaholic 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
one of the good things that God made was creatures who had the freedom to choose good. in order to have a real choice, God had to allow there to be something besides good to choose. so God allowed these free angels and humans to choose good or non-good [evil]. when a bad relationship exists between two good things we call that evil, but it does not become a "thing" that required God to create it.
God didn’t want a race of robots who did not have a free will. God had to allow the possibility of evil for us to have a true choice of whether to worship God or not. if we never had to suffer and experience evil, would we truly know how wonderful heaven is? God did not create evil, but he allowed it. if he hadn’t allowed evil, we would be worshipping him out of obligation, not by a choice of our own free will.
2007-07-02 14:06:35 · answer #10 · answered by Silver 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There is evil in the world because of Sin. Sin arose from the fall of man from their intimate relationship with God.
2007-07-02 14:07:46 · answer #11 · answered by Jeff M 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋