I am not trying to force my faith or disagree with a religious group. But I really want to know your opinion about this. since everyone of us question God for letting the devil to disturb humans. another valued question. do you think that evil comes from Satan or from within? who is real devil? Satan or us...we have a free will to choose between right and good, yet when someone does something bad, they say devil made him evil...tell me...
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I was always told that God allows evil because He is all about free will and doesn't want to impose himself on us. God allows us to see Him if we chose to see him and he will leave us alone if we don't. As for the evil thing, i beleive that evil comes from your inability to resist temptation. Satan doesn't make you do anything, he just suggests it.  You do the rest.
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Angels were created 4 His pleasure. To worship Him and praise Him. They were here before we were.Satan it says in the Bible was the praise & worship leader of Gods heavenly choir. His angelic name was Lucifer.\n\n One day satan started to wonder why he wasn't considered an equal to our Creator. Then he started to question Gods authority over him and over the other angels and he began to rally them against God. One third of the angels he convinced to war against God. And the way satan became evil was a little sin called Pride. Through out all of this God never interfered.\n\n I think God was waiting for Lusifer to repent. God loves all his creations until He cant reach them anymore. He waited until satan & his followers came agaist Him ready to battle. Ofcourse God won and cast him down to the earth.\nAll of this occurred before man was created. \n\nI belive that the reason GoD gives us all free will,angels included, is because He is a good parent. I am a mother and I know that I have to let my children make mistakes so that they will, with my guidence, become the kind of adult that I can be proud of & welcome into my home forever. But when they choose not to be good, and I know that I cant reach them anymore, I will cast them out of my house. It will break my heart but I must do it to show the others in my house or the other ones that want to be a part of my house, that that sort of bahavior will not be tolerated. \n\nBecause a parent must love all thier creations, we let them have free will. Understand? Read the Bible and you will see many ways that He has loved us.
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Isn't it curious that our understanding of good and bad are meant to originate in Adam and Eve's great 'sin'? That the 'sin' they committed was wanting to learn about their surroundings instead of just blindly saying 'my Father told me not to touch it, so ı won't touch it'?\n\nIn normal life, we call that growing up. We call it learning for yourself. And it's humanity's greatest single trait.\n\nIf it was the devil, in the form of a snake, that convinced Adam and Eve to open their eyes and question their surroundings, and if it was God who arbitrarily said 'look but don't touch', here is my question:\n\nWhich one of them should we give praise to?
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How has the human race really proven over the course of human history that it's worth believing in? Sure, we've done some good things, but have they outweighed the bad so much? \n\nHowever, you're right. God gave us free will. He gives us responsibility for ourselves - it's irrational to give Him all the credit or all the blame for everything. Sometimes it is just life that gets in the way, not Satan, not God, just "stuff happens." And no, God's not physical, but believers can still feel Him. That's no excuse for putting everything on Him, though, like you said!
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Satan created mankind. All of the ancient texts point to this. Christianity and judaism have tortured Satan's name for their own benefit. I feel that everything I have in life I owe to Him, and He rewards me every day. Other religions teach people to be stupid. "Dont eat from the tree of knowledge!"  Well I say "why not???"  You should want to know what the Gods know. You should want to ascend to a level of Godhood. Anything less is selling your existance and purpose short. We use 5% of our brains. It is the judeo-christian beliefs that have caused this to mankind. And for what? A book created by Constantine? Satan is not evil. All He ever wants and asks is that mankind use his brains and ability to the maximum extent. All other religions preach to DENY knowledge. Satan saved mankind when other "Gods" wished to destroy mankind. Yes, I love Satan.
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A lot to read, but, I think the last sentence sums up the whole, as to what you ask. Yes, we may not be sure of the details between God and Satan, I believe this is a personal dispute. Ever hear people say about a Husband/Wife or two best Friends arguing; "You don't want to get in the middle of that"? I not going too, it between God and Satan. True we may be in the middle to some extent and too much to write on that.\nThe Bible does not give too much detail about Satan and in Job chapter 1 we see he is in Heaven talking with God about Job! I not understand God's full plan and it His choice. So, I trust Jesus and figure one day may know the deeper details. Hope this helps.
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In my opinion, "evil" is "self-contradiction."\n\nAlthough bible matter doesn't say this explicitly, I do believe it's the gist of thought all through its contents.
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Wonderful question !!  If you could just pass this all around the world and ask for this.   If every human on Earth would take  your question and aim for this.  It is not too much to ask.     Un-fortunately, there is just the opposite.    satan is on a rampage and it usually effects the poor and angry people.   Yes,  you right on and IF we could do what your wonderful question suggests.
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If it were true, then it wouldn't nessesarily make any real difference. If you yourself are a good person, then it shouldn't  matter that you have a parent who is in fact the lord of all that is evil. You wouldn't have to follow in their footsteps if you didn't want to.\n\nIf God can mess up and create The Devil, then surely The Devil can mess up and create someone who isn't that bad.\n\n\nIf either of them happen to exist in the first place, that is.
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If God is all knowing and all loving, why did He create Satan and allow evil in the world? A good question, to be sure. One that I’m not sure we can ever fully understand, not being omniscient ourselves. While I do believe that a large part of the answer lies in the fact that God decided to give us (i.e. men and angels) freedom of choice, I also believe that is used by most Christians as a pat answer to avoid the discussion (and personal contemplation) in the first place. To examine this question fully we must try to get a handle on many difficult concepts: freedom of choice, the nature of God, the nature of love, the nature of omniscience, and the nature of evil being the primary concerns. None of these are easy topics, and many of them will have to be looked at simultaneously.\n\nOne of the first questions I believe we need to ask is this: Why did God create us in the first place? The answer lies in what He calls us… His children. Why does any parent want to have children? While there may be a few who will answer that they want an heir to their estate or kingdom, and others who might answer that it is their way to immortality, I believe almost everyone would admit that the reason they want to have children is they want to have a child to love, and to be loved by that child. It is no different with God. He wants to (and does) love us. He wants to be loved by us. He wants all the joys of parenthood. With this understood, we now can explore the idea of freedom of choice.\n\nGiving freedom of choice comes both from the desire to love, and to be loved. Let’s look at a couple of examples we can relate to. If someone is trying to completely control his or her spouse or significant other, the relationship is almost always a bad one. No one likes to be controlled. A husband who tells his wife what friends she can or cannot have, when she can go out of the house, when to have dinner on the table, etc., is usually described as abusive. Not always physically, but that often goes hand in hand. Giving someone freedom of choice is also giving them trust and respect. Love cannot exist without it.\n\nI think it is even easier to see the necessity of freedom of choice when we look at the desire to be loved. God is described as a Father, so I am going to explore this aspect by looking at fathers. A father could make his six year old daughter climb into his lap every night and say, “I love you, daddy,” right before going to bed. He could, but I don’t believe most fathers would want to. While most fathers would want very much for their six year old daughter to do just that, if it was forced, it would not mean anything. A father wants his daughter to climb into his lap and say, “I love you,” out of her heart, not out of command. God wants the same thing. Yes, He could have decided not to give us any freedom of choice, but He created us because He wanted to be loved by us. If we did not have freedom of choice, than we could not truly love. Love must be a choice.\n\nNow that we have touched on the nature of love and freedom of choice, I believe it would be good to look at the nature of God. We will also discover much about the nature of evil while examining this topic. While God is called the creator of all, there is one thing that God did not create: evil. God did create Satan, the author of evil, but God did not create evil. Evil is the absence of God. This is why God is described as light, and evil as darkness. Darkness only exists where light does not. They are not true opposites. The only way to have darkness is to block out all light. There is no such thing as a “darkbulb” or “flashdark.” Only light can be created. God is also described as a consuming fire. I like to take these two concepts together and liken God to our sun. If you get too close to the sun you burn up; you become part of it. This is why in the Old Testament it is stated that if you see God’s face you will die. You would be consumed. When Moses was al
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I don't think there is an actual "devil". I think the "devil" is a just a way for us to apply a bad face to evil acts. I think humans need God as humans have been worshipping dieties for tens of thousands of years and nearly 90% of the world believes in a diety in some form.
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my answer is based on bible, so sorry if you think the bible's a fake.\n\nbut, the bible teaches that all people are inherently evil.  i think the only good people do is solely out of the grace of god.
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The short answer is that God is loving enough to allow us to suffer the effects (both good and bad) of our actions and the actions of others. If God did not allow us to experience the consequences of our actions (and others'), then free-will would be only an illusion, and God would be unjust in judging some worthy of hell, and others being admitted to heaven. OUR ACTIONS CAUSE EVIL, not God! Does God allow evil? Yes! Did God create evil? NO! God merely created free moral agents with the ability to choose to follow Him, and do no evil, or to rebel against Him, and do evil things.\nThat begs the question, why did God create free-will? Because without free-will, we would be nothing more than robots, or puppets on a string. God created man for the purpose of having relationship with, and to serve and protect the lesser creations of God (animals, the earth, anyone or anything less powerfull than ourselves).\nHaving said that, God does use evil (when it happens), to further His agenda for the earth, and particularly for those that love Him, and are called according to His purpose.\nGod created the POSSIBILITY of evil, He did not create evil, and along with the possibility of evil, had a plan to turn what was evil into something beautiful. THAT is why Jesus MUST BE God, Because God Himself stepped in and bore EVIL on His own self, in order to undo the power of evil, Jesus must also be man, because evil was introduced to the earth through a man, and a man must then break the power of evil.\nJesus was both 100% God and 100% man - fulfilling justice for both God and Man.
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The REAL issue is this: if God made us, and doesn't want us to sin, then he must have made a mistake, because according to christians, we do sin. If God did make us right, then sends us to hell for being imperfect, when he's the one who made us that way, then he's a sadistic a-hole. \n\nSo which one is he, incompetent or sadistic?\n\nMaybe there's a third option. There's no such thing as sin. Everything we go through down here is a lesson to learn.
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There is no evil in basic terms.You speak of it as if it were the opposite of good,yet, they are both moral value judgments that are understood from the perspective of "opposites are absolute", and you ignore the unity that exists. Creation and Destruction are two sides of the same coin. In your terms, Evil is the desire for destruction.
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Evil is a consequence of the presence of free-will. Given free-will, some people will choose good, and some will choose evil (some fraction of the time).\n\nFor good to exist, evil does not need to exist.\n\nHowever, for good to be truly appreciated, evil may be a backdrop that makes good that much more appreciatable (to coin a term).\n\nAlso, there is greater virtue in being good when everyone around you is being evil. \n\nAnd, the presence of evil provides an environment (for a limited period of time) where souls can grow and develop character (in a manner consistent with God's purposes for our universe and for us).\n\nFor a brief explanation of God's purposes in creating the Universe and human beings, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/new/godspurposes.html\n\nCordially,\nJohn
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If someone is imposing their will on yours, then you may kill that person.  That's how I understood it when I read the Satanic Bible.  The whole book seems to be very self-oriented; if anything offends you, get rid of it.  They are just as nuts as all the other religions.