Why did God punish him?
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You're thinking about Job, and it's actually a long story.\n\nIn the end, Job was blessed for his suffering, even though he never knew why.\n\nJob was shown for the type man he was for our learning, not to prove Satan wrong.  He's an excellent example for us in suffering.  Sometimes we do suffer as the result of evil being in the world and sometimes we are tested because others think our service to God is hypocrisy and we would deny God if our privilege was taken away.\n\nIn the end, Job has a better understanding of God, Whom he loves and has worshipped consistently all his life. \n\nHis story shows us that suffering is not always the result of personal sin; riches are not always proof of God's approval and the lack of them is not always proof of His disapproval; disaster is not always judgement; our obedience is not just a personal matter - our examples affect others (all beliefs his friends held, and many still hold today).\n\nWe don't always get why God does things, but we learn from Job that God is in control, He considers us even though He allows us to be tempted, and that He is with us (read the end of the book) even when we are suffering.\n\nIn John 12:27-28 Jesus says, “Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name.”  This is right before He was taken to be beaten and crucified.  Sometimes when going through a trial or grief, I consider that my purpose may be to go through the trial in a godly way.  How I deal with adversity may be my single greatest achievement, and more important than anything else I accomplish.  It may serve to bring someone else to Christ.  If my temporary suffering aides in bringing about someone else's eternal reward, that helps to put it in perspective.
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God was angry because the people were being very sinful.
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God had a choice. he chose to send them to Hell
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God dosent see How much Bad u might have done!!! He sees How much Good for others!!
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God's goodness demands that He punish evil. But it does not restrict Him from taking that punishment upon Himself, in the form of His only Begotten Son, the Messiah Jesus.\n\nHowever, if you only want to continue in your sins, there is no point in bringing you to Heaven, where there is no sin (Revelation 21:8, 22:11; John 3:16-21).
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He tried to tempt Jesus into worshipping him and renounce God. Jesus got angry and told him off.
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seems to me, God made you, too....you didn't choose to be gay, so why would you be punished?
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Because you sinned against god, this is the way he punishes you.  LOL, No seriously, go see the doctor if your worried about it, you may need medicine.
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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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Punishment?  Are you referring to the results of one's own actions?  If so, the punishment if of one's ownself, rather than from God.   However, if one should seek God's  guidance before making choices then there may not be a 'punishment' to be considered.  God is very real!
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Nobody knows what God is thinking, or why He did certain stuff, or what His intentions are. I doubt anybody can get inside His head (not literally) and fathom His unfathomable reasons for everything.\n\nHowever, it does not hurt to speculate, just to make a little sense out of everything. Maybe God wanted the Devil around so that Man can realize how horrible the Devil's Way is and how wonderful it is to live in the love of God. You can't realize what light is unless you know what darkness is. Like, in the Garden of Eden, everything Adam and Eve needed was given to them. They experienced God's love, but they took it forgranted when they disobeyed God. So, God sent them out of the Garden, probably to make them realize that they were wrong and that they needed God and His Grace and His Love.\n\nWhat do you think?
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:}\nI wasn't A very nice person when i came to know the lord.\nI had done allot of things to offend his very nature.\nHe chose to submit to a criminals punishment to the death on the cross and horrible punishment as a means to atone for my sins so i could spend eternity in bliss with him\nHe loves me.
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because he was human, he got temptations and everything, and it was worse for him because as the christ, it would be his first real experience of pain. Besides, look at the human race, were a waste of space, why should he go through all that for us? WOuldn't u hide, they are going to whip you and nail you to a cross, come on, you arent going to walk right up and be like "ok, here i am", at that time he was human, remember that
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It was part of God's plan to set in motion the sacrifice of his son as he promised.  People talk about how God gave us freewill, he didn't.  We are all his puppets.  Therefore we cannot be held accountable for our actions
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God does not what you to be damned so he sent Jesus!\n\nWhen you reject him and basically say screw you GOD go away, he does what you ask. \n\nOnce you are dead and do not have GOD stopping you from over comsuming on sin, you will continue to be tortured by not being able to control yourself. Kinda like drug users who destroy there lives for drugs!\n\nBut if god made you a robot so you had no choice to choose or reject him, you would be mad as well, I will post a question called GOd and hell, so you can reply there!\n\n\npart 2\nIt is hard to understand how serious sin is to GOD!  It is hard for me to understand that as simple as GOD's plan for redemption is, people reject it! It is not like GOD set it up so you had to do all these things to work for forgiveness. IF GOD would have required me to do things I could not, then punished me for not being able to do it, I would agree with you. since GOD made it as easy as believing he did all the work and just wants me to believe he did! It is as simple as believing in GOD! \n\n\nI also know GOD characteristics of Love, Mercy, Justice!\n\nIs GOD a sadistic Creator for giving free will? \nIs man sadistic for choosing to be separated from GOD?\nJustice requires consequence for choice!\n\nI rest that when it is done we will agree that GOD acted fairly in Love, Mercy, and Justice.\n\n\nI will check my question for more replies! GOOD Question though!
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In the first place, it was our mistake that we did not pay any heed to His advice.  By giving that advice, He made us aware of the fact that He was in a position to give advice and we would be better off to follow that.\n\nHowever, we are human beings and we may commit mistakes and God does not punish us for our mistakes but forgives us.  Just think how many mistakes you have  committed since your birth and still you are enjoying life.  What we csonsider as punishment are just reminders from the Almighty that we must learn from our mistakes and do not commit the same sin twice.
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God didn't lose control.  He made people able to choose right or wrong.  Being people, we often choose wrong.  \n\nAlso, there's about a million reasons why God should be in charge: he made everything, he knows everything, he is perfectly just, he's all-powerful, he's all-present, he's outside of time (so he never runs out of time), and besides all this, he loves us!\n\nThe reason that he changed the languages at the tower of babel and wiped out the earth's population during the flood is that he is just and fair.  See, the hard thing to understand is that God deserves to be the Ruler over everything, including us, and when we rebel against him, we are the ones who are wrong.  That's the definition of sin-- rebellion against God.  So because the people building the tower of babel and all the people on earth(except for Noah) were rebelling against God, God in his infinate justice punished them, because justice demanded it, and he had the right to do so.\n\nIt's hard for us to understand, especially because we innately know that a person would be wrong to wipe out the world's poplulation or punish people for trying to userp them.  But because God is God, he's right to do so.\n\nIn fact, we all sin, and the just punishment for sin is eternal separation from God (otherwise known as hell).  No person on earth could possibly earn their way to heaven, because the requirenment for getting into heaven is perfection, which none of us has ever, or can ever, acheive.  So if God is just, he should punish us with eternal separation from him.  However, God also loves us, and he wants to spend eternity with us in heaven.  So, God came up with a plan, The perfect plan.\n\nHe sent his son, Jesus Christ, down to earth, to be born in a stable in Bethlahem.  Jesus is the only person who ever lived his entire life without sinning once.  He never sinned because not only is he 100% man, but he is also 100% God AT THE SAME TIME.  During his 33 years on earth, Jesus proved that he was God's son, and the savior of the world by preforming miracles and fulfulling thousands of prophecies that were given to the Jewish people hundreds and thousands of years before he was born.\n\nAfter living perfectly for 33 years on earth, Jesus came into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, knowing that he would be put to death that Friday.  He could have stayed away from Jerusalem, or called angels down to stop his execution at any time, but he didn't.  He willingly gave his life because he knew that his death was part of God's plan.  Jesus was to live a perfect life, then die on the cross as punishment for the sins of every person who ever lived.  Jesus was whipped within an inch of his life, mocked, spit upon, forced to carry a wooden cross up to the hill where he was crucified on it, pierced by nails in his hands and feet, finally hung on a cross, where he was taunted and ridiculed until he died.  But far worse than the physical torture, Jesus, who had never sinned, took on all of the sins that you and I and the human race have ever committed.  He had to feel the guilt and shame of things he had never done, and he had to be separated from God.   Finally, Jesus died.  Jesus did all of this willingly for you, and he would have done it even if you were the only person on earth.  He loved you so much that he would rather die this horrible death than go through eternity without you.\n\nBut the story doesn't end there!  Jesus was laid in a tomb, where he stayed for three days, but on the third day, he came back to life!  This is the real meaning of Easter! After rising from the dead, he stayed on earth for forty days and appeared to more than 500 of his followers before ascending to heaven.\n\nIf you don't wake up tomorrow, do you know for sure where you're going?  Because of Jesus' sacrifice, your sins can be forgiven and you can be made right with God, know for sure that you will go to heaven when you die, and start