What if God is a control freak and satan just wants us to have a good time? What has satan done that is so bad? Seems like God is the one who brings famine and disease.
FYI - i don't really believe in any of this crap
2007-11-18 09:45:23 · 30 answers · asked by PD 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
FYI2 - I have read the entire bible - start to finish
2007-11-18 10:13:06 · update #1
several years ago
2007-11-18 10:13:32 · update #2
but i did skip the psalms - boring
2007-11-18 10:15:43 · update #3
Man, I hate changing teams, I just bought all this memorabilia on ebay too.
2007-11-18 09:50:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
This question reminds me of Genesis 3, and the dialog between Satan and Eve. Read it and see what I mean.
This question is AGE old, Satan is out to FOOL you with LIES as usual.
Since God is and has ALWAYS been in control, I can just see Satan stomping his foot in a temper tamper, mad as a HORNET that God tossed him out of Heaven, just for wanting to be LIKE GOD, to BE GOD!
There was NO famine or disease before man fell to sin.
One day the earth and heavens will be reborn anew, and all will be restored. THEN and only then, will death, famine, disease and every other BAD thing you can imagine will be forever gone, tossed into the Lake of fire with Satan, his Angels and those who chose NOT to believe.... BTW, that is your prerogative, NOT to believe !!!
2007-11-18 18:32:53 · answer #2 · answered by MBlessed (SOC) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan is not the good guy and it is a very slippery slope to think so, whether you believe this "crap" or not. My ex, that I was with for 17 years of my life, is a high up satanic leader. It absolutely has destroyed his life. Not only that but it has destroyed many others around him, including innocent children.
When you deal with dark entities and black magick, as many satanists do whether they profess belief in an actual being known as "satan" or not, you contanimate your own aura, energy, soul, etc.
His little corner of evil advocates total selfishness and "Do unto others as they do unto you." Now this can very tempting with all the jerks in the world who will wrong you. But your actions in this universe whether you think so or not, WILL bite you in the "tail." Imagine someone having some real occultic power and this philosophy be out to get you, and maybe you didn't even deserve it.
Needless to say at the very least, it is not elevating your soul any to party like there is no tommorow and advocate selfish hedonism. Interestingly, in all the time I knew him he while he advanced up in the dark heirarchy, he never actually said that he did *not* believe in a literal entity known as "satan."
Based on my experience, I *honestly* believe that there is a satan who uses people of tools of destruction, whether they say they believe in a literal satan or not. As a result of my dealings with him, it became brutally apparent to me that there is a fight between light and darkness, with each side trying to claim souls for their own. I thought that was all bunk myself until my direct experience with this guy.
Trust me "God" is the good guy in this battle. I would probably be dead from this man's eventual unrelenting abuse of me if God and his angels didn't step in and blow him apart. I also didn't believe any of that either, until it happened.
It is interesting when a satanic dude fears a God he won't confirm or deny that he believes in the existence of. One day it became extremely apparent that God had put his seal on me as his own and didn't want me messed with, and was angry that I was messed with. That was the only time I ever saw the tough satanic guy petrified in 17 years. From that day on, he has given me a *very* wide berth.
He started as an innocent Christian raised boy with the very same questions you ask and eventually became a top leader of a very dark and destructive hierarchy. It cost him a 17 yr relationship with the only woman that will ever truly love him, harmed several innocent people including children, and unless he totally turns around, it has probably cost him his soul.
You tell me who the bad guy is.
2007-11-18 18:36:14 · answer #3 · answered by An Independent 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Bible, Satan ONLY does what God PERMITS him to do. No clue why so many Christians seem to believe he has more power than God.
Satan isn't the one who drowned, plagued, and slaughtered millions (more than Hitler); hardened hearts; conspired to have his own kid brutally beaten and executed; or repeatedly commanded his followers to kidnap, rape, hurt, and kill people. God did all those evil things himself. With a god like that, one doesn't need a devil.
2007-11-18 18:01:26 · answer #4 · answered by gelfling 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
HE'S NOT!!!
If you really don't believe in God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit, then you need to think about it and then pray.
Is there someone you know for whom you are sure this person is evil or perhaps not someone you really don't want to be around, not of good character?
Unless, this person change their ways most likely this person will spend eternity with Satan. STOP! If you are not a believer
in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit then you will end-up spending eternity with this character and Satan for eternity in a Lake of Fire!
Is this what you really want?
2007-11-18 17:58:01 · answer #5 · answered by NJ 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A somewhat broader question is: does God define what is good? In otherwords, are God's commandments in the Bible good because God said so, or are they good in themselves?
I think that "the good" can be defined without reference to any deity. What is good comes from our values, as defined by philosophy. The alternative is something like what you have argued: if "good" is simply what God wants, how do we know we've picked the correct side of the Manisheistic face-off?
2007-11-18 17:54:00 · answer #6 · answered by cosmo 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I like the Jewish view of Satan, that he's god's prosecutor rather than an independent spirit.
Makes more mythological sense.
2007-11-18 17:51:20 · answer #7 · answered by numbnuts222 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I actually think humans bring famine. How in the world did humans decide that people should have to pay for food when God gave an Earth that offers food free and feeds all animals free of charge? Sounds silly to me. As for disease it's a part of nature. We're all going to die one day.
2007-11-18 17:49:14 · answer #8 · answered by Lucky S 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
If Satan were the good guy, we'd be in T R O U B L E
lol
2007-11-18 17:51:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
God has absolutes and you'd best learn them. The Bible has been around longer than any other book and you educated people tell me that you don't know it. If you don't know the Bible, you are not an educated person.
2007-11-18 17:51:58 · answer #10 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You know, that's a very interesting question, checkout Enlil and Enki. If nothing else, you may find it more believable.
You can just keyword both names together and tons of stuff comes up for you.
2007-11-18 17:55:07 · answer #11 · answered by Scorpian S 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋