2007-09-08 13:21:14 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Satan is about as real as the easter bunny.
2007-09-08 14:28:31 · answer #1 · answered by xanadu88 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is the person who choose what he likes or wants. This is free will. When a person is deceived it is because he chooses that wrong path or maybe he lacks sound judgment that's why he's fooled or deceived. But if a Christian is deceived and falls into sin God gives him sufficient grace to rise up once again and move on in life. God who is so good all the time does not give people depraved mind..
2007-09-09 23:51:53 · answer #2 · answered by Avalon99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God allows Satan and his minions to tempt man as an oppositional force to rightousness. Without opposition in mortality, man cannot progress using the free agency given of God.
God does not give us a depraved mind at bending to the whims of Satan's influence. Through agency, man makes his choice and earns the consequences. God simply provides the means for us to make the right or wrong choices in life.
2007-09-08 20:30:44 · answer #3 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why God Permits Evil
From where, then, does evil come? Remember that God has opposers—principally the "one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth." (Revelation 12:9) God placed our first parents, Adam and Eve, in a trouble-free world. But Satan convinced Eve that she would be better off without God's rulership. (Genesis 3:1-5) Sadly, Eve believed Satan's lies and disobeyed God. Adam joined her in this rebellion. The result? "Death spread to all men," says the Bible.—Romans 5:12.
Rather than immediately squashing this rebellion by destroying Satan and his followers, God saw fit to allow time to pass. What would that accomplish? For one thing, it would allow Satan to be exposed as a liar! It would allow proof to accumulate that independence from God brings nothing but ruin. Is that not exactly what has taken place? "The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." (1 John 5:19) Furthermore, "man has dominated man to his injury." (Ecclesiastes 8:9) Mankind's religions are a maze of conflicting teachings. Morals have fallen to an all-time low. Human governments have tried every conceivable form of rule. They sign treaties and adopt laws, but the needs of the common people are still unfulfilled. Wars add misery on misery.
Clearly, we need to have God intervene and end wickedness! But this will happen only in God's due time. Until then, it is our privilege to support God's rulership by obeying his laws and principles as found in the Bible. When bad things happen, we can take comfort in the confident hope of life in a trouble-free world.
Please enjoy the whole article right here! http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2004/3/22/article_01.htm
2007-09-08 20:29:39 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pardon? Satan can not be an excuse for Christians failures. We still have the choice, if we are sincerely living out our faith, listening and inquiring the Lord's will in every aspect of our lives then Satan does not stand a chance. we choose to fail, and God allows us to fail, because He loves us enough to give us a choice.
2007-09-08 20:26:50 · answer #5 · answered by Ames 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You let satan decieve you not God,and when satan has decieved you it,s him who gives you a depraved mind,pray to Jesus and trust him he will help you.
2007-09-08 20:28:08 · answer #6 · answered by elaine 30705 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People allow themselves to be corrupted by satan.... it is by no means Gods fault!!
2007-09-08 20:30:41 · answer #7 · answered by Tessa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan gets way too much credit.
2007-09-08 20:28:06 · answer #8 · answered by Tori M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not do it. The Christian turns back into sin somehow and when you do and continue in that sin, it is like cancer it spreads.
2007-09-08 20:49:12 · answer #9 · answered by Erica L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for someone who has no clue about my faith...you sure do think you know a lot.
sounds to me, you have no clue what your talking about. maybe if you understood Christianity you might have a clue.
2007-09-08 20:26:12 · answer #10 · answered by Ms. Lady 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋