about the devil...?

Question

why didn't god just send him to one of the billions of other planets in the universe? you know, one of the billions of places in the universe without life, where he would have nobody to tempt. why would god send satan to earth, where he could steer so many people away from worshipping god?

Answer 1

the devil is god that is why he cant leave.because if the creator ban him to another galaxy he will take about 2 thrds of the people with him,because he is linked to them. through the false beliefs of the people who worship him as God

the creator love the people too much.that is why he first want to seperate the people he created from the devil before he send him on his way to hell and let Jesus rule with us as kings on earth for a thousand years
( before we are send on our way to different galaxies to start our own planets and people) in brackets is my opinion what will happen after 1000 years

Answer 2

The whole genesis story is flawed and makes NO sense whatsoever.

The premise of God is:

1. God is omnipotent (all-powerful)
2. God is omnipresent (everywhere)
3. God is omniscient (sees all)

So, based on this premise, "before" GOD created anything, it already knew that one of its angels (Lucifer) would turn against him, two of his creations (Adam/Eve) would eat the forbidden fruit and be banned from Eden, thereby causing the pain of millions, the torture Jesus, etc, etc. So what exactly was the point? Just to prove the point that Jesus can rise again? The logic is flawed.


Lucifer:

Created by God and was God's best angel. But, since God has the three powers above, he knew BEFORE Lucifer was created that he would turn against him.
So, Satan was CREATED by God (since God created Lucifer KNOWING that he would turn into Satan)

Now that Satan exists, we have the perfect villain to corrupt Adam & Eve (how convenient), and taint the other characters in the epic story.

Adam & Eve:
God creates Adam, then creates Eve whom God knows (see the above three premises) will be tempted by the Serpent. But not only that, God allows the Serpent free reign of the Garden of Eden so the Serpent can corrupt his precious creations?!? Seems rather stupid (a human limitation) to me.

Once Satan does his job and tempts Eve, who then corrupts Adam, God comes in to punish them all for something that HE SET INTO MOTION! WOW talk about cruel.

And now, we are supposed to try and get back to a state of purity and innocence that we would never have lost if God hadn't set these horrific events into motion? We were already perfect (or damn near) while in Eden. So why the need to set events into motion to cast us out?

Seems like a vicious sadomasochistic story to me, created by people with flawed logic.

Answer 3

the bible says Satan was cast down to earth and is contained here, however, it doesn't make sense for a loving God to allow mankind to be tempted, knowing Eve would succumb, and then decided that eternal torture was a just punishment for that mistake.

A loving God would not have created him in the first place.

Answer 4

Many believers in God do not believe in a Satan, but rather we view Satan as symbolic for man thinking and acting like mortal man instead of like spiritual man.

Answer 5

Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going ato and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

Answer 6

Actually, it never says that God sent Satan to Earth at all.

An interesting thing that we see in Scripture is that the names of people and places etc are always very relevant. They tell us things about their very nature / identity. Even more significant is when the names are changed, like Sarai (meaning striving) was changed to Sarah (meaning princess). So we understand then that Sarah changed from someone who strived to a princess. What a transformation!

In the same way, Satan's name was originally Lucifer (meaning morning star - as in brightness) to Satan (meaning opponent). No wonder Isaiah said: “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! (Isaiah 14:12). Satan has many other names too - all are negative and all reflect a disastrous change from being the son of the morning.

In Ezekiel 28, the prophet dealing with the king of Tyre then starts to refer to Satan. Although the king of Tyre was a man, yet if we look at when Satan tempted Jesus in Matthew 4 we realise that Satan was really the king of all human kingdoms at that stage. Thus, Ezekiel's switch from dealing to the human king to dealing with Satan is quite logical.

Ezekiel's words about Satan are very interesting:

“You were the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;
Every precious stone was your covering:
The sardius, topaz, and diamond,
Beryl, onyx, and jasper,
Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes
Was prepared for you on the day you were created.
14 “ You were the anointed cherub who covers;
I established you;
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,
Till iniquity was found in you.

(Ezekiel 28:12b-15 NKJV)

Thus, I submit to you, that IF God did send him to the Garden in Eden, He sent Lucifer, not Satan. He sent the perfect and beautiful shining one, not an “opponent”. He is a loving Heavenly Father who cares so much about His Creation that He sent Jesus to buy it all back.

God bless you!

Answer 7

You need to look at it from the other direction. We needed a way to explain bad things, so we made up the evil Satan figure. Its not logical that a perfect and good God would allow this mess to occur in the name of "freewill".

Its like me locking my child in a room with a candy bar for eternity, and saying "look, don't touch it... just don't"

Answer 8

I do not believe God or Satan are confined to only this earth. the Bible plainly says "God created the Heavens and the Earths"

Answer 9

Because when the Bible was written, we were the only known planet, situated at the center of the universe. Where else would the writers have sent him?

Answer 10

it is not meant for everyone to understand God's reasoning of why He does things. but one day everyone will come to an understanding of God's will