I dont understand how someone can say that there is no God but yet fail to realize that Satan used to be an angel in heaven until he got kicked. People these days are so confused and it is sad.
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Well, to commence, the framework you are using for your question only accounts for those of Abrahamic faiths.  That's to say there are three major religions that share a common plotline going back to Abraham.  They are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Of the hundreds of religions on the planet outside these three, many fail to have such a melodramatic “good verses evil” relationship or have alternately interesting structures of faith.  So, you could see why many of those would not believe in a devil, but could believe in a god.\n\nNow, among those faiths that do purport the existence of an all-evil figure, there are many which do not practice their faith as taught.  They still consider themselves Christians or Jews or Muslims, but have found fundamental fault with humankind’s influence over how a god's teachings are put into action.  In so doing, they've been left without guides beyond the self, spiritualists, people smart enough to know that there is something quite precious larger than themselves, but unable to articulate that feeling out beyond a natural, balanced, state of neutrality.  In many cases these folk might be closer to the truth than a practitioner and in many cases further from it.  Nonetheless, in the infinite constructs it takes to presume greatness without guidance, a sort of an independent research, many constructs take a shape leaning toward righteousness to such a degree of obliterating evil as an outside source.  To these folks, evil is construct of humankind and personifying anything as a greater source of evil than humankind is a shallow attempt to take the blame off of ourselves.  That said, the opposite also occurs with equal frequency.  Some people are able to make that personification of an evil source, without being able to conceptualize a being greater than that, one which could make all that evil go away.  They are, in fact, only human.\n\nIn Belgium, for instance, in the 80s, the opposite of your question was true. There were many people who believed in God, but did not believe in the devil.  You can see where those folks and the folks you are worked up over, kind of fall into the same basket.\n\nIt comes down to source materials.  If a person derives belief in a god from words above all else, then s/he logically has to believe the remainder of those words.  If instead, a person's belief in a god includes words, but more readily comes from nature or quantum physics or emotions or imperial thinking or consistencies between religions or practices or art or study of other words, then it becomes very easy to formulate alternate spiritualities that neither step on the toes of religious dogma nor fall in regimented concordance with it.  In any case, that is HOW some people come to believe in one and not the other.  Best be careful not to lump the conscientious folks who’ve thought their ways into this positions to be lumped in with the “confused” masses who’ve arrived there out of laziness.\n\nFor you, good asker, though known as Satan, as Lucifer and by other names, the word "devil" was actually taken from mythology that existed in non-Abrahamic religions.  Devils, among their other supposed appearances, were little, red, horned miscreants that caused bad things to happen.  They were just as fictional as gremlins, sprites, trolls, and imps, but we, as Judeo-Christians borrowed that image and that word to better explain Satan because it was something that the people already knew about from drawings.  So, in a linguistic sense, if you believe in the devil, you are believing in something that doesn't exist and therefore the person best suited to answer your own question.
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Because that "God" in Jeremiah 13:14 is the Lord, God of Israel. That "God" is not the same God who created humans or is it the same God who created the entire universe. They are all different. The Lord, God of Israel is actually Satan, the fallen angel. Satan is an alien from heaven and is obsessed with control and power over humans. In the case of the biblical story you brought up, Satan is concerned with collecting all the gold and treasures from all the people he ordered massacred. Reread the story again with this explanation in mind and it will make sense. Satan is still concerned with hoarding gold to this day. The followers of that "God" are actually Satanist working for a real alien (or angel). There is nothing spiritual about the mass killings of women, children, and babies; it is just, quite simply, a factual account of a greedy, gold hungry alien passing as a 'god' to humans who willing do his bidding in exchange for worldly policical powers. These Satanist are behind almost all the world events of modern times. But don't be scared, their time is almost up and they will soon be at our feet (Rev 2:9 and 3:9). And the creator God of human beings will be returning! (Rev 20-22) That is the Good News of the Bible.
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Wow, this is a new topic and compared to what I have read so far today...a pleasant change.  Possibly so, since we are to believe we were all 'created' in the image of God.  Angels were first according to history and Satan, Lucifer was his favorite at one time.  I don't know what else to say, but I appreciate the question for the open minded people out in the world today...what if this is true?  Good one.
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No, because there is no hell. You make a pretty good point. If someone were on an isolated island he wouldn't even have the slightest concept of what god is. Know why? Because it's a man made organized religion. The bible is man made too.
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My dear the Spiritual world governs rulers the earthly world. there are two kingdom in the spiritual world; HEAVEN AND HELL. there is a war btn these two as God is trying to follow up his Part 'the spirit' he put in Man during creation. this is something he did with love en 4 the purpose of man worshiping him.\nNow satan rebelled en confusing, lying, destroying God's plan. \nSO THE CONFUSION IS ALL AROUND THERE.\nTHERE IS GOD, OK. EN THE ONLY WAY TO GOD IS THRU JESUS CHRIST. HE (GOD) IS THE  HOLY OF HOLY AND CAN BE APPROACHED BY SINFUL MAN UNLESS WASHED BY JESUS' BLOOD. for more details u can email me.
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I think it's a bunch of crap, people are terrified to believe in a higher power. There was no big bang... there was God and he wanted life on earth, so there you go.
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Very true and very sad.  It's horrible that those who have answered other questions here and claimed to haved live as Christians previously, but have turned away don't realize that also.  It's silly that those who don't believe honestly think they can have so much hate and it comes from themselves, but then claim that Christians are the ones who hate.  They don't understand that because of our love for God we will defend Him to the end, fully acknowledging that He does not need our help, He certainly can handle it!!  But that Satan wants to put anger and fear and doubt in all of us.  Satan's total reason for being is to turn us away from God...he has no other purpose.
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I am not a great believer in the God theory, so I'm not surprised that he/she hasn't been back since the old biblical days.\nIf there is a God, perhaps he doesn't like what he sees, and has washed his hands of the whole mess.
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Satan Cast Out of Heaven\n\nIn the early part of our century, there was a war in heaven. The Bible book of Revelation describes what happened: “And war broke out in heaven: Michael  and his [good] angels battled with the dragon [Satan], and the dragon and its [bad] angels battled but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his [bad] angels were hurled down with him.”\n\nWhat was the result? The account continues: “On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them!” The good angels could be glad because Satan and the bad angels, or spirits, were no longer in heaven. But what about people on earth? The Bible says: “Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time.”—Revelation 12:7-9, 12.\n\nYes, Satan and his wicked companions mislead and cause great woe for people on earth. These wicked angels are called demons. They are enemies of God. All of them are evil.
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What sort of all-powerful god would make disabled people in the first place? Most will say mentally disabled people go to heaven, but, does that make sense? If it is so, then why would god not make everyone mentally disabled so they all go to heaven? It appears that the brighter people are, the sooner they go to hell. Popular theology is not wisdom, it's nonsense.
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its not true what you said about God....HE DELIVERED THE PPL FROM SLAVERY THROUGH MOSES SO HE DIDNT LOVE IT.. but Satan doesnt care and I dont care what Satan thinks... THIS IS RELIGION HERE....
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Satan was not the "best" but the most beautiful and he held a posistion that was one of the highest, a "coverer" Angels worshiped God like they do now before humans existed. Satan's source of greed and pride is from himself.
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You cant prove there is not God no matter how many excuses people make. All you have to do is look around you and the beauty in this world and in the world it's self. No rediculuous big bang created life. Only God did this. Praise the Lord!
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Before, and during the time of Jesus, in the Old Testament, when a person died, or was killed by god it was said that he was no more, but after the death of Jesus came the advent of Christianity, and with it came another idea that had never been mentioned before, and this was the idea of hell. What a wonderful thing that the new church gave us. I wonder how many millions of people spent most of their lives in misery because of the ignorance of a few zealots? And to this day the church would rather have people suffer then tell them the truth. It makes me sick to my stomach.
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"Life without God or his goodness is hell"\n\nEven if people are not in relationship with God,he is still affecting them. He holds back evil and darkness to a degree that we don't even know about. In Hell, God's power is given way to the Enemies ways. He relinquishes His power to the Prince of Darkness. We all have a choice as to where we want to spend our everlasting life -- we get to choose our "address" of either Heaven in the Kingdom of God or in Hell with the Prince of Darkness.
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Satan doesn't exist, therefore he cannot be chained in heaven, nor can he be loose on earth.  Sorry to disillusion you.
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If God wanted to leave absolutely no room for anyone to doubt or try to disprove His existance and authority, He could have done. His thoughts and ways are better than ours - we'd love everyone to just have to believe - but God gives everyone the choice. People don't want it to be true that there is a God - the implications are too big. Like recognising that yes there is actually right and wrong - people don't want to go there - remember Pharohs magicians who tried to explain away the wonders that were shown them in Egypt - they didn't want to acknowlege God either - its nothing fresh!  The reality of our Eternal God who controls everything in life and death is just more than folks can take - they want to "live a good life and be happy" They don't want to know about a God who will hold us responsible what we do with our lives, it just doesn't fit with their "lifestyle choice". They will either try to logically reason a way that it could possibly have happened without needing a God or they will just instantly dismiss these realities without further thought as just "fairy tales". Don't fret. Yes some people will try to explain things in a way that ignores God, they refuse to believe - creation itself cries out! Its of no suprise in one sense ... there is going to be both the sheep and the goats. Stand firm. One day every knee will bow, and every tongue confess that He Is LORD.