He created the devil. Didnt he?
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because we have exams in the middle of it,right!\nIf u wanna reach the position of lord u must grow ur soul by ur own decision and that will happen when an evil exists!\na good result or a bad one!\n~peace
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You've forgotten that God exists outside of Time.  He never sees the "past" or the "future". . . all times are the present for Him.  In a sense, He doesn't know what you're going to do until you actually do it, but He isn't looking into the future. . . He knows what you'll be doing next week because He's watching you do it right now.  Satan is the same way.  God created him with free will, but God didn't know what he would choose to do with that free will until he actually did it.  There was no intrinsic necessity that Satan become evil- he could have chosen to remain in heaven as an angel, if he'd wanted to.  Apparently God thought it was worth the risk, and He still seems to think so.  Perfect love can never be wrong about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom can never be wrong about the methods best suited to reach that end.  God can do anything which is not intrinsically self-contradictory. . . . but it may well be that allowing some creatures to choose evil is a completely unavoidable price to pay if you're going to have creatures with the free will to choose good.
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That is a good point. Maybe, he was the crafty one that was just doing a contract for another god who had all the business skills to sell the idea to the humans. For all you know, they nicked the idea from someone else.
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nope because i read some where that the number 666 appeared in a dream as the mark of the beast and as it turns out the number was seen upside down to be 999. besides the greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he does not exist. so there for it would be to obvious for something horrible to happen on the day 666.
617363
curse this question god created everything
53989
Man created god. In our own image. And wrote the bible as well.
587681
God created Satan, so God being "all knowing" knew what Satan would become. It's all God's fault.
547809
Darwin recanted on his death bed.  Scientist and anti-religious people have taken Darwin's work and made it into something that he never intended.  This is the work of the devil.  Darwin never intended evil---he was a scientist doing a scientist's job.  By like so many innocent people, his work was seized upon by agents of the devil in an effort to discredit the Bible and form a foundation for the atheist movement, which has infected every aspect of our society.  This infection of the devil is why our Western civilization is in such a mess---Jesus has been thrown into the proverbial jail while the devil has been allowed to run rampant over the earth.  Only Christ can resolve this situation and he will when the devil is defeated and tossed into the bottomless pit.
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Well the devil did not tempt Jesus with these things. He tempted Him with proving who He was. \n\nAnti-Christ is anything against grace and peace. Which would be trying to follow law to gain favor with God.\n\nRevelations is mainly OT prophecy. All prophecy has been fulfilled. Rev. is what Jesus took upon Himself during His sacrafice. It was judgement day already.
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Because the devil is smart and will twist peoples mind into other things like believing we come from monkeys.  It's just the devil working......
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By God's own account of it all Lucifer was guilty of was looking for a little democracy. Then God unleashed is "Shock and Awe" all over Lucifer's *ss and found out that the D man had no weapons of mass destruction at all.\n\nOff to Guantanamo with no trial and a sentence of all eternity for Lucifer.\n\nSeems a little harsh for the God that loves everything doesn't it?
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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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possibly. because he created the world. he could have right then made rainbows like he made everything else! wow! that is just mindblowing isn't it??
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God did create evil, but God can do no evil. Thats why there had to be an adversary(Satan).God does allow Satan to roam the earth, waiting to see who he can devour. You shoud sit down, get comfortable, and read Job. Buy you a good concordance,(strongs,vines,or the like). It will help you understand. You did read Isaiah 45:7 correctly. Some of the newer translations have changed the word evil to calamity,(I guess to make it sound better),but then again, calamity means evil. But one thing for sure,Those who believe in, and love God and His precious Son, have no fear of being devoured. Thats not to say we don't have trials,or even tragedies in this earth age. After all evil and good, both share this earth.  Sadly, the good get sick, have accidents, die, etc. God rains on the just and the unjust.It seems unfair to us at times, But God is in control, and we will all understand one day. Look around, even on this post, are the devoured. They have no morals, no conscience, no love, no hope. And Satan's enjoying every little tasty morsel,as he devours. Christians, keep strong. Rewards are coming soon!  God loves you, and so do I
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Satan isn't really one single being in the bible. Like black_hole_gravity said, it means "adversary" and it's more of a title than a name. Although Lucifer still is a villain in christian mythology. He did rebel against god in the story.
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If it all be true God and Satan and the whole bit. Satan has done his work through the manipulation of people through the very thing that they think is protecting them from him. Come on a creature like Satan, with powers and has been around for who knows how long, you don't think he was smart enough to think of that and do it? It's what I would have done and I am just a regular mortal person, and if someone tries to twist that idea by saying things like God would never let the Devil do that, well he need not do it him self, he could just manipulate someone else to do it. People talk about the coming of the anti-Christ, maybe he was already here, say about one thousand, nine hundred and sixty years ago. That would have been about the right time for him to do all the damage to the human race that he needed to through their own religion. This maybe the reason the Bible is so absurd. Knowing some would buy into it and other wouldn't, know that this would put people in opposition to each other. I would have done the same thing.
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i am trying to get meaning out of this its certainly informative and perhaps correct that Hitler took a scientific theory and twisted its purposes for his own use..... that is done everyday by groups of people around the world. Doesn't the KKK use the bible to justify their absurd beliefs? Haven't violent horrible atrocities taken place in the name of a god or over christianity vs islam?\nIf your point is that people take ideas and twist them to serve their own purposes then i would say you are correct but if your point is that Darwin was the devil because an evil lunatic twisted his work to be used to justify his evil then i think you would have to say the same about the author of the bible? wouldn't you?