What's the emotional response God feels when he thinks about Satan. Is it hate? or is it love?
2007-11-15 15:58:40 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
YES DEAR HE LOVES SATAN. HE HATES SIN, BUT HE LOVES SINNERS. JESUS TAUGHT US TO LOVE OUR ENEMIES, AND NOT TO HATE THEM. THAT WAS A VERY GOOD QUESTION, MAY GOD BLESS YOU !!!!!
2007-11-15 16:10:04 · answer #1 · answered by tinkerbell 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know what... as a child, I had been taught that Christians should love everybody (even if they do bad things) in the same way that God loves everybody, and I actually struggled with this question of whether I should love Satan or not.
I concluded that I shouldn't since he was God's sworn enemy, but it really did puzzle me for a while. I *wanted* to be able to love and forgive *everybody*, including him.
I think I was probably about eight or nine years old at the time.
2007-11-15 16:22:30 · answer #2 · answered by kriosalysia 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Very much. THAT is why He has let Satan's evil persist for so long. Lucifer, at his creation, was one of God's most magnificent creatures. Even though God already knows the outcome in the end, much like he does for us, he is giving Satan every opportunity to repent.
What parent who has a child go astray does not hope and pray until the very last possible moment that they will come back?
2007-11-15 16:01:16 · answer #3 · answered by David M 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The bible says Satan or Lucifer was the most beautiful and greatest angel in Heaven but if God is a God of love so its hard to think what God feels towards him without Him saying it in the Bible But God does hate sin because it is enmity against who He is But it does say He hates satans plots against His elect.
2007-11-15 16:04:25 · answer #4 · answered by Carl F 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love is not something that God does; love is what God is.
Since mankind in general is in a fallen condition, in many cases without natural affection, it is something of a mistake to attempt this kind of analogy.
If you were love, instead of a being which attempts to love in a predetermined world, you could ask the right question and know the answer. "But he is of one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desires , even that he does."
If Satan or any elect the anthesis of Love; then faith and hope no longer remain and endless questions rule out Love and attempt to rule over Love. The mind always questions; the heart knows and rests in that Love which abides always and forever.
2007-11-15 17:49:45 · answer #5 · answered by Tommy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I personally don't have any concrete religion but I grew up with the idea of God prevalent in my life. God would not hate Satan. He would be like a parent. Dissapointed that he had to punish someone he loved. However, Satan did wrong and God will always have that opinion of him. It would be wrong for God to hate Satan for his actions though.
2007-11-15 16:01:47 · answer #6 · answered by Eliza B 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Who knows... I say he does in a way. Lucifer was an angel at one point and just terribly screwed up... Having said that maybe he does not... I have no idea.
Somebody mentioned the book of Job. Notice in the book of Job how it says "the Satan". Its not talking bout the Satan that got cast out of heaven. It just one of God's angels who is opposing Job. The Hebrew texts translates into "the opposer", not Lucifer. God would not be having this conversation with him and he certainly wouldn't be in Heaven after God threw him out.
2007-11-15 16:19:26 · answer #7 · answered by The Assassin with a Resume 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the heart is full of love, there's no room for hate. There's no room for God to think about satan.
2007-11-15 16:04:53 · answer #8 · answered by moesart 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Would God be good with out Satan? Would miracles not be sweet without tragedy? Would love exist if we had no hate?
Do you see what I'm getting at?
Without an opposite there would be not conception of the other- we would never appreciate God without Satan because we would have no conception of good. It all started with Adam and Eve, if they hadn't taken that first bite they would have never appreciated the garden in the first place, they never knew they had a sweet deal because they didn't have to deal with survival.
God would have to love Satan, he makes God look good.
2007-11-15 16:03:45 · answer #9 · answered by deathtoariel 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God could have easily kill Satan, and his followers! He could kill the sinner of the world with just a word. But he love them and Satan so much that he giving them time to redeem their ways. That love alright he created us we are his children. We make him smile, cry , angry. We make GOD proud and I be live that he love Satan and he hate chastise him but God realize that what has to be done
2007-11-15 16:04:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The book of Job has some interactions between satan and God. Check it out!
2007-11-15 16:00:55 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋