If God is everywhere, is he inside the Devil too?

Answer 1

god is the devil

Answer 2

A reading of the Holy Babble convinces me that the Devil is inside God. Numbers 31 provides a nice little story showing the Devil in operation through God.

Answer 3

You misunderstand the meaning of omnipresent. God is not "inside" the devil, Christians are not pantheists. Omnipresence is to be able to act in all places in all times, and to be present there in all times (compare the term 'ubiquity').

You might well have asked "if God is everywhere, is he inside my bottle of water"....to which the answer is "no".

And, Yahweh's toaster, said that Hell is a place without the presence of God, incorrect, Hell is a place of eternal torment for sinners, the people do not have an experience of God nor feel the presence of God but this does not negate the fact that His presence is there (compare Psalm 139:8).

Answer 4

OK, you are obviously a believer in traditional Christian doctrine. I'm afraid that I cannot answer inside that framework, but bear with me.

My concept of all and everything that exists is that God is not just everywhere - God IS EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS.
This includes our physical realm and all of the metaphysical realms (or spiritual realm if you prefer).
That means that all of the subatomic particles are God, You and I are little bits of God. Positive and negative entities and forces are God. All of the possible universes that exist or may exist are God.

And there has to be a balance between positive and negative for anything to exist at all.

Negative exists so that positive can exist - without one you cannot have the other. It's a bit like electricity - you have to have both polarities or you do not have anything. The Asian philosophies have their concept of yin & yang - light and dark that sums up this idea.

So its not like God is this old guy with a beard sitting on a cloud or a throne and dictating everything that happens - rewarding good little girls & boys and punishing the bad ones. It's more like God is the entirety of light and dark, and is manifesting through all of us and everything around us.

Our purpose is to experience things and to learn lessons and to evolve spiritually.

If you learn to generate positive attitudes and energies in your life, you will find that you attract positive things to yourself. If you generate negative things, you will attract the negative. This is a bit like the concept of Karma - what you do comes back to you in one form or another.

I hope this helps.

Answer 5

Augustine in the 4th century asserted that Evil (Devil) is not the opposite force of good (God), rather merely the absence of good. Should there be a Devil he would be the complete and absolute rejection of God.

What you express is called the problem of Good and Evil or as one person puts it the "Hell Paradox" it has been answered at least partially by every great philosophical mind pick up a book and read the answers for yourself. Look it up in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, or the Harvard Journal of Philosophy.

Answer 6

God is at each and every ingredient in time, area, and count number. this does not propose that God is interior the metaphysical realm of each and every coronary heart. additionally remember that God isn't interior the enterprise of forcing himself onto all and sundry. interior the Bible, God in basic terms enters the hearts of people who settle for him. it is voluntary. God does not violate the loose will of persons. The Bible says that a guy or woman can grieve the Holy Spirit, and he will pass away. In easy of the argument above, God does not stay interior the devil.

Answer 7

God only enters a human being's heart, and by invitation. Satan is not human. And he certainly wouldn't invite God in! In any case, it's not like God isn't fully cognizant of all Satan's tiny little tinpot ideas and plans, because He is. Satan is, after all, a created being, even if he isn't human. He only *thinks* he's got God hoodwinked. As the old saying goes, you keep a bad dog on a short chain.

Answer 8

The mystical scriptures of Hinduism can give some logical answers.

Who is God? Where is God? How can I come to know God?"

God has no names, but all names are the names of God. Whether you call Him this or that, He remains Who He is. But in our tradition we call God by the loving name Siva, which is only one of His 1,008 traditional names. Supreme God Siva is both within us and outside of us. Even desire, the fulfillment of desire, the joy, the pain, the sorrow, birth and death -- this is all Siva, nothing but Siva.

This is hard to believe for the unenlightened individual who cannot see how a good, kind and loving God could create pain and sorrow. Actually, we find that Siva did not -- not in the sense that is commonly thought. God gave the law of karma, decreeing that each energy sent into motion returns with equal force.

In looking closely at this natural law, we can see that we create our own joy, our own pain, our own sorrow and our own release from sorrow. Yet we could not even do this except for the power and existence of our loving Lord. It takes much meditation to find God Siva in all things, through all things. In this striving -- as in perfecting any art or science -- regular daily disciplines must be faithfully adhered to.

Siva is the immanent personal Lord, and He is transcendent Reality. Siva is a God of love, boundless love. He loves each and every one. Each soul is created by Him and guided by Him through life. God Siva is everywhere. There is no place where Siva is not. He is in you. He is in this temple. He is in the trees. He is in the sky, in the clouds, in the planets. He is the galaxies swirling in space and the space between galaxies, too. He is the universe. His cosmic dance of creation, preservation and dissolution is happening this very moment in every atom of the universe. God Siva is, and is in all things. He permeates all things. He is immanent, with a beautiful form, a human-like form which can actually be seen and has been seen by many people in visions. He is also transcendent, beyond time, cause and space.

That is almost too much for the mind to comprehend, isn't it? Therefore, we have to meditate on these things. God Siva is so close to us. Where does He live? In the Third World. And in this form He can talk and think and love and receive our prayers and guide our karma. He commands vast numbers of devas who go forth to do His will all over the world, all over the galaxy, throughout the universe. These are matters told to us by the rishis; and we have discovered them in our own meditations. So always worship this great God. Never fear Him. He is the Self of your self. He is closer than your own breath. His nature is love, and if you worship Him with devotion you will know love and be loving toward others. Devotees of God Siva love everyone.

This is how God Siva can be seen everywhere and in everyone. He is there as the Soul of each soul. You can open your inner eye and see Him in others, see Him in the world as the world. Little by little, discipline yourself to meditate at the same time each day. Meditate, discover the silent center of yourself, then go deep within, to the core of your real Being. Slowly the purity comes. Slowly the awakening comes.
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Answer 9

Let's make something very clear GOD IS NOT THE DEVIL!!!!
The Devil is his own creation. No, he is not inside the devil. The devil is a loser and God's children win in the end.

Answer 10

In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.

The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of Gods plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.

Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.

Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.

Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It’s meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 11

Of course, the devil started out as an angel didnt he!!!!