If God destroyed evil, God would destroy every opportunity of choice. And if God were to destroy every opportunity for choice, then God would destroy every opportunity for love. Therefore, God would destroy the highest good. For God to destroy evil would be evil. God doesn’t destroy evil; instead God defeats evil. How? Through Calvary and the resurrection. God turns every hurt into a hallelujah. Every defeat into victory!
2007-08-03 01:37:27 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Honestly, I don't think I believe in the devil. So that is one thing. Either we are responsible for our actions, or we are not. I believe that we are, so even if the devil exists, he is irrelevant. You still have to choose between good and evil.
Other than that, I more or less agree with you. The argument that destroying choice destroys the opportunity to love is weak, but the significance of free will is a key. We either have free will, or we do not. If we do, then evil is necessary. If you do not have the ability to choose to do evil, then you do not have free will. But if it is a choice, then we also have the choice to choose good, and that absolves God of the responsibility of obliterating evil. We can do it ourselves, so why should he? If we fail and he steps in, then it is a gift. That makes God good, and that is the God I believe in. I, for one, do not want to be a robot.
If we do not have free will, then there is no point to our lives, and the fact that God "allows" evil when we do not have the ability to choose to to avoid it would make him arguably evil himself. That is the problem with the Calvinistic idea of "predestination," which I was arguing with someone else about earlier today on here. I do not believe in a chaotic, evil God that does not provide us with the ability to solve our problems and to make choices.
All that said, this argument is meaningless to someone who does not already believe in God. That is the best argument against this idea: the idea that God simply does not exist. Atheists often use the "if God exists, then why does not he not obliterate evil" argument. If someone does not believe in God, then everything you and I say here is meaningless, and it does not really resolve the most important theological debate under which this argument most often occurs.
2007-08-03 01:49:37 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So..why didn't he just destroy it at the beginning of time -eh? Why create the devil in the first place (if he knows everything then he knew what Lucifer would become before he created hi) Why screw us around for 2000 years when he could have destroyed evil at the begniinig?
2007-08-03 01:41:09 · answer #2 · answered by Ginger Ninja 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God will obliterate the devil, his sentence has already been exceeded. in case you examine Genesis God tells how he will use Jesus to weigh down the devil and ultimately how the devil and his angels would be thrown in the lake of hearth on judgement day. whilst somebody is going to courtroom and a loss of life sentence is exceeded the decide does not leap out of the judgement seat and shoot the accused in the top, there's a era of waiting till now execution happens, As God is a appropriate decide and his judgement has been exceeded on the devil, the devil is familiar with his time is working out........all it somewhat is in the bible.
2016-10-09 03:04:36 · answer #3 · answered by rajkumar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God will destroy Satan and use his enemies as his footstool when Jesus returns. For now, evil has to exist so that people can have the freedom of choice- choice to follow evil or die to the world and love Jesus Christ.
2007-08-03 01:41:18 · answer #4 · answered by foreverromance99 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without evil you won't have good. Its two sides of the same coin and we won't even have a concept of good without a concept of evil and vice versa. Besides, have you christians and other religious types ever wondered about this? That evil also comes from god according to your own beliefs.
2007-08-03 01:42:13 · answer #5 · answered by Jingizu 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Devil is a projection of mankinds evilness, so God cant destroy it .
Have you ever thought that life on Earth is hell , as we can only imagine hell through our experinces and observations of life on Earth
2007-08-03 01:41:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For satan is defeated and his hosts are on the run
As the church moves in the power of His Son
For we stand as the church of the living God
Declaring He is King of all the earth
No power or principality can shake us anymore
For we stand united, never to be divided
For we stand together with our God.
2007-08-03 09:26:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason he doesn't obliverate all evil ?
Is because man is his own worst enemy,he has raped this planet of everything that he held good ! man has a lot to answer for and what was jesus if he wasn't a man before he was turned into a God.But why should i worry as i am a Satanist and i don't careless what happens to your nonreligion,nor what happens to you or your kind!!
2007-08-03 01:53:32 · answer #8 · answered by the-Devil-is-King 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven will be perfect right? Well how without a devil (choice)? And why didn't god do that in the first place?
Your idea is flawed.
2007-08-03 01:47:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will need to prove that god and the devil exist before arguing over theological presumptions.
Stopping evil would not be evil in itself. Is stopping a murder considered evil?
2007-08-03 01:40:18 · answer #10 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋