We can't know what's good without evil, light without darkness, love without hatred, perfection without imperfection, gain and loss, and many other opposites in life. From my observations, I have heard people say the Devil is responsible for all the evil in the world, and that God is always good. I don't believe that Satan and his demons were "thrown from the kindgdom to earth." I belive God and Satan are like just like us humans- all of us have the potentiality and choice to do good or evil deeds. Humans have done wonderful things and horrible things to each other and to the Earth. Does anyone think God and Satan are two people in one? After all, according to the Bible, God wanted "man in his own image." I think good and evil both exist within God.
2007-09-11 13:36:15 · 19 answers · asked by Peaches 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When I said "two sides of the same coin" I was not talking about an actual coin. I was speaking figurately.
When I read Genesis in the Bible, I interpreted that as God came into being, and then he created some angels, and one of them went against the grain. Soon, others joined him and he was called Satan. How can God create evil if he didn't know evil or if he isn't evil? Who created the evil in Satan? It seems to me like we were screwed even before Adam and Eve were created! That's what I have a really hard time understanding.
2007-09-11 14:05:02 · update #1
So much for your theory. God and the devil are completely two different people. God is holy and is not capable of evil. Man is made in the image of God in that we think and reason. But unlike God, we choose to sin.
2007-09-11 13:45:20 · answer #1 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, i do no longer think so. devil isn't on the comparable point as God. If I had to assert devil grew to become right into a opposite of something, i'd ought to assert the front component of his coin would an angel.
2016-11-10 04:26:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We never would have had to have known evil, if we did not choose to disobey God - that's what happened in the Garden of Eden, when Eve decided she wanted to experience herself the difference between good and evil - it didn't have to be that way.
You can spend all of your life in a lit room and you will still be able to see the objects with clarity - by the same token you can spend all your life in a dark cave and never see a damn thing.
What I'm saying is, it's not important that we experience opposites in order to be affected by one or the other...
2007-09-11 13:41:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good points. However, to my mind God and the Devil are not two sides of the same coin, in fact, neither one exists.
2007-09-11 13:45:59 · answer #4 · answered by Yank 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Satan is God's Ego
2007-09-11 15:01:33 · answer #5 · answered by Champion of Knowledge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evil cannot exist in God because "light casts out all darkness"...but God does often allow evil to exist in order to work out His plans, which are always for good (for example, in the cases of Peter and Job He allowed Satan to attack them, and in both cases they were stronger and more righteous afterwards!)....but you make some interesting and thoughtful observations! I like your "out of the box" thinking. :)
2007-09-11 13:41:58 · answer #6 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the bible it says "I created good and I created evil" from there you decide.
2007-09-11 15:22:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are out of it,there is no one equal to God and never will be,I would think before another question like this.
2007-09-11 13:44:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God ctreated the world to be perfect. satan messed it up. We would not know death apart from sin.
2007-09-11 13:43:39 · answer #9 · answered by Casey M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yea God is nowhere near the Devil. He tries to do the opposite to show us to be better people.
2007-09-11 13:42:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋