If God is all-powerful, why does he have a continuing battle with Satan?
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Yin and yang\n\nAs long as there is good ther is bad. That is what we weigh good against. If there was no bad. we would have no reference for a goodness, call it God or whatever you wish. \n\nAs long as there is bitter there is sweet, as long as there is happiness, there is sorrow.\n\nChristians know goodness because there is badness within them that helps them realize the difference. \n\nSatan is simply the evil within a person that they are..or at least, should be battling against and not leave it up to God. \n\nIt is the laws of the universe. There will be no changing it.
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He made a new one.  Had several daughters.\n\nOf course, I never understood why God had to prove anything to Satan.  But maybe is to show future generations a lesson about devotion?
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Evil is the creation of the deity "god" plain & simple. He is the sole creator and therefore he created Satan and his crew. Sure he started out as an angel, but wouldn't the deity "god" see that one coming? His evil gives him something to do you know...so he won't feel useless.
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Satan didn't hijack the universe, he brought up the issue of gods right to rule man.  If God just destroyed satan and humans and then started over again his point wouldn't be proven and no one would learn and that wouldn't be fair.  Instead he allows us to rule ourselves with satans influence to allow us to make our own choice and prove his right to rule.
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A better question: Since Satan is so smart, would he REALLY make it so that "his work" can be picked out so easily? Satan could be GOD for all humans know; don't you think that would be the more ingenious move?
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According to the bible, God has participated in wars.  So he must be a fan.
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Does that primitive fairy tale sound right to you?  For example why wouldn't Satan use his powers to make Hell really nice so that people wanted to go to Hell?  He could gain power by being nice.  The whole good and evil nonsense in the Bible is really very silly if you actually analyze it.
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The book of Job suggests that Satan was created by God. He was the greatest of the Angels, and his pride caused him to rebel against God (very similar to the Adam and Eve Story).\nEvil is the result of the brokeness of creation. When God created he looked and it was good. The consequences of human rebellion against God lead to suffering and death.\n\nSo you would be right to thing that God created all things but not that he created evil. The next question however is if God knew that evil would happen why did he still create?
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hmmm. wel lthat all depends on wether you see satan as a diety. according to the mythology satan isnt as powerful as god. yet interestingly the mythology also says satan can do many magical things, tuening into other people, making people do things, invading their bodies. if anything it seems that satan has more powers than god. apaprently god has the omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence down but can he transform his figure and invade peoples bodies?\n\napaprently not.\n\ni think this question raises another similar queston....are christians monotheists? they also beleive in satan...satan seems to be close to if not as powerful as god...\n\nlogically it seems christians (and satanists) are not monotheists...polytheists perhaps.
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no because god condemns satan.
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because Satan is at work destroying God's creation. It will never get better until the End.  Then everything will be destroyed with fire.
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Indeed, God is in the ultimate control.\n\nYet you need to understand that Jesus the Messiah has not returned yet, and Satan is the ruler/god of this world “system”.\n\nThe ‘secret’ organization that rules the world "system" is Heylel and his minions... he is the one who blinds the minds of the unbelievers... he also prowls among the Christians looking for someone to devour.  All of that stuff as the rumors about Illuminati, etc... is just nothing.  Heylel and his minions cause most trouble... by deceptive tactics.\n\nNone of the above should be a secret... the written Word of God has already told us about it.  It is only ‘secret’ to the perishing and deceived.
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An argument could be made -- a yin yang comparison.  Even from a more traditional Judaeo-Christian perspective, since god is omnipresent, couldn't he be both god and satan?  A method of introducing free will, perhaps.
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You've got to remember.  It's not about what we perceive as reality.  The Bible says there is a war in the "invisbles". . .the unseen.  It is a war against the principalities and powers of Satan.  Their objective is to supplant God.  Ålways has been.  God's objective is to redeem man, to get man back into fellowship with Him.  So, as Christians, we are in the family and Satan knows to bring whatever he has to bear against us.  Sex, war, terrorism. . .whatever.  Satan knows the Bible a whole lot better than we do and he is not afraid to jack us up royally.  He is the father of lies.  Satan's goal for us is self-destruction.  Since we choose to love God and follow Him, the only way Satan can really hurt God is to get us to choose to self-destruct.  He gets us where our weakness is and then just lets sin take it course. . .the end being self-destruction.  The world is just a part of that process.  There are really only two religions in the world.  Christianity and Hinduism.  Christianity says" you need a God".  Hinduism, which comes in many forms from  Mormonism to Humanism to whatever says 'you can be your own god."  If you'll recall, that's just the same old lie Satan used in the garden and is still using today.  Hope that helps.
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Here ya go, this should keep em busy for a while!\n1. Why would God entrust the spreading of 'His' word to one of his 'fallible' children? He knows men are sinners and are untruI doubt a professor would allow one of his students to teach a class if all the other students' futures were at stake. If God loved us so much and he wants us to be with him, why would he put our eternal souls at risk like that? \n\n2. If Satan is the ultimate trickster, how do we know that Satan hasn't tricked Christians into worshipping him as God (Yahweh) and are actually rebuking the "real" God in his own name? \n\n3. If god cast the devil into hell and hell is a place for eternal punishment from which even god cannot grant a pardon, then why do the preachers tell us the devil is walking up and down the hallways of high schools tempting teenagers to do drugs and have pre-marital sex? A warden who allows his prisoners the freedom to go out and kill and rape would be terminated for incompetence. \n\n4. I have often heard from many believers that even Satan has a presence in the church, which is why even in church people can still have impure thoughts. If Satan can find his way in the church, how do Christians know that Satan didn't find his way into the Bible and twist the whole book? \n\n5. If the Universe is everywhere by definition, why do theists ask where it came from? How can there be anywhere for the universe to come from if the Universe is already everywhere by definition? \n\n6. Does God think? If so, he cannot be all-knowing. Think about it. \n\n7. If a soul is non-physical and the human body is physical, how does a soul stay in our bodies? \n\n8. If God is all-knowing, how could he be disappointed in His creation? \n\n9. If God is unchangeable (immutable), how is there evidence of a god when everything else around us is changing? \n\n10. Why did God flood the earth to remove evil? It didn't work! Evil came right back, God should have known that would happen! So why did He bother? \n\n11. Why is it that theists tell me that I have to examine every part of the universe and not find God anywhere in order to say that there is no god, when in fact all I need to do is not find God in one location since he is supposed to be omnipresent? \n\n12. If the garden of Eden was a perfect paradise as xians claim, then why did Eve even want to eat the apple? Wouldn't a perfect place provide everything a person would want or desire and thus she would want nothing? \n\n13. Romans 6:23 says "For the wages of sin is death" Does this mean animals sin as well? Or uni-cellular organisms? Do plants sin? Because they all die as well, not just humans. Why does an animal die, if it doesn't know the moral difference between right and wrong? \n\n\n14. Why would an all-powerful god become flesh in order to sacrifice himself to himself so that his creation might escape the wrath of himself. Couldn't god, in his infinite wisdom, come up with something a little more efficient? \n\n15. If we are the children of god, and yet we have never seen him, does that make us the bastards of god? Not to mention my mom didn't marry God.\n\n16. After 9/11 a lot of people have been tossing around "god bless america". Why do they keep saying this? From the looks of it god hasn't blessed anything. If god had blessed america, the 9/11 event would've never happened. Theists seem to give the answer of "everything is part of gods big plan". If everything is part of gods big plan, why are we after Bin Laden? Wasn't he and other terrorists just carrying out gods desired plan? So it seems that Bin Laden/ terrorism isnt our enemy , but god. \n\n17. Christians say that God is NOT the author of confusion. Can you say, Tower of Babel? \n\n18. Christians will tell you that if a baby dies it goes to heaven. Why then are they so against abortion? All the child is being deprived of is the opportunity to go
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Well firstly I think agnostics wouldn't be in the battle. They are in the middle and they really don't care who is wrong or right. So they wouldn't waste their time fighting over something they don't agree or disagree with. \nIn a battle of Christians vs. Atheist I think neither would come out the winner. If there is a God I don't think he would get involved. Since he gave them both free will and they both decided to fight then God might let it play out. \nI think neither would win because even if one killed off the other there would still be another belief to go against the other. Like if the Atheist won then another religion would just fill the spot of Christianity and vise versa. \nIt's kinda like the whole God vs. Satan. If God is so powerful he could just take him out. What would be the point though? With out Satan there is no evil and without evil what is good?
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Satan is the prince of the power of the air (Eph.2:2 below).  Satan is the “god” (2 Cor.4:4 below) of this present evil world (Gal.1:4 below).\n\n2 Cor.4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.\n\nGal.1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:\n\nEph.2:2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:\n\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)