If God is all powerful, why doesn't he just destroy Satan?
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Here's another noodle-baker.  If God is all powerful and all-benevolent, why is there evil in the world at all?  Either he is not all powerful (if he were he would have no evil) or else is not all-benevolent. (He could wipe out evil but chooses to allow evil things to happen anyways, something a loving and good God would not allow.)\nTake your pick, either way God is not all-perfect.
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Satan is also known as the "Prince of the World" which means Satan was given the temporary control over this world on Earth by God.  Remember that bet Satan made with God?  Read the Book of Job.  God allowed this arrogant Fallen One to do as he wishes upon Earth as the Test of Faith for those who are close to God.\n\nAs we can see from the Christian Bible, Satan has been constently beaten by those of strong faith.
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Everyone needs God. But God gave us a choice on who to serve. Him or Satan. People say God gives us free will, but not so. The inly will God gives us is His holy word. The Bible. That is the will for us. the devil doesn't have a will. Therefore whoever follows him will be doomed for eternal damnation. That's why it is important to hold to God and serve him. He is the only one who sticks closer than a friend, brother, mother, father, cousin, aunt, teacher or anybody else. He's there in the good times and the bad times. He'll never leave you or forsake you. God can\ndo more than what other man made gods can't do.
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Because man is stubborn and abuses God's gift of free will. \n\nMany people put other gods before the True God, for example: wealth, appearance, material goods, envy, etc. Abusing these things brings us instant gratification and gives us a feeling of power.\n\nWhen we have that feeling of power, we believe that we're as good as God, or that we don't need Him. Even Jesus was tempted, but temptation isn't a sin. Giving into a temptation IS a sin. Man is weak and falls into too many traps set by Satan.\n\nIf we learned to use our free will in a more God-like manner, Satan would have far less competition.
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If you want the short answer, it's because of Bible prophecy.  The long answer is, the world is actually in the hands of someone very sinister--the Devil.  He's only got a little time left, and so he's angry---kind of like the Nazis were when they realized they only had a limited period of time before they would be discovered by the allied troops, and so they went through and wreaked as much havoc and destruction as they could in the concentration camps.  I know this flies in the face of what a lot of churches and religions teach, but it's all right there in the Bible.  The good news is that, since Satan's time is short, he'll be stopped very soon.  And then things will get a whole lot better.\n\nIf anyone knocks on your door soon, try something new: listen to them.  You may find that what they have to say makes sense.
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The plan of God is inevitable.  Satan could not stop it, he tried his best to stop it.  But, Satan is still here trying to keep any souls he can from receiving God's salvation.  Satan is very successful at this!  I hope more people learn of God's sacrifice and accept his salvation.
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Absolutely not.  But I do believe that God can use whatever we submit to Him for our ultimate good.\n\nGod shows His power to some degree by using even what is bad to accomplish good.\n\nConsider the story of Joseph. Remember how his brothers were jealous of his dreams and visions and they threw him in the pit, sold him into slavery, and told Jacob he was dead?\n\nHe went on doing what was right, even though he was falsely accused by Potiphar's wife and thrown into prison.\n\nAfter he interpreted Pharaoh's dream, he became the second most powerful man in Egypt and saved not only Egypt, but his family from famine.\n\nWhen he is reunited with his brothers and they weep for what they have done, he says, "But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive." Genesis 50:20\n\nWe also see from the crucifixion that God can use the worst Satan can do to God's ultimate glory.\n\nIt's not that evil is good or that evil is God's will. It's just that God is powerful enough to use Satan's own efforts against him.\n\nAnd I believe that the tragedies that befall us in our lives are not good things. But if we are willing, and submit them to God, He can use them for our ultimate good. God will not waste our pain
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no because god condemns satan.
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Satan didn't kill any people, God do that....\nif God don't said die then no one can die.\nbut why satan got the reputation as a bad one?the answer is because satan didn't do what God told to.
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Wow, no offense but Satans got you right where he wants you. Satan is the father of lies, the prince of darkness, he's ready to kill and devour anything God will let him. Hell was created by God for the devil and his angels, not for people. Unfortunately some people end up there because they refuse God's forgiveness. Satans going to try and make himself appear harmless and when you least expect it he'll crush you and destroy your life. And half the time you won't even know it was him! He's that clever. Pray to Almighty God that Satan will not annihilate you.
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Satan was the most beautiful angel that was created to serve God. But he got proud and thought he could be like God... be God. So God banished him and all his followers from Heaven. He is still on the earth because humans had to have freedom of choise.
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Why is there evil and suffering in the world? \nThe question implies that if a good God exists, then evil shouldn't because God, being all powerful, should stop it. \nWe need to ask and answer two questions. First, what is evil? It is that which is against God. It is anything morally bad or wrong. It is injurious, depraved, wicked. Some acceptable examples might be murder, rape, stealing, lying, and cheating. Second, if we want God to stop evil, do we want Him to stop all evil, or just some of it? In other words, if just some of it, then why? If He were to stop only part of the evil, then we would still be asking the question, "Why is there evil in the world?"\n     Let's suppose that someone was about to commit murder. God would have to stop him, maybe whisper in his ear, or if that didn't work, do something a little more drastic, like have something fall on him, or stop his heart, or make his hands suddenly fall off. Anyway, God would have to do something.\n      What if somebody wanted to steal? God would have to stop him too, right? Undoubtedly, God's imagination would permit a more practical method than I have suggested, but the end results would be the same.\n      What about lying? If someone were to tell a lie, then to be consistent wouldn't you want God right there to stop that person from lying? After all, He couldn't let any evil occur, could He?\n      Let's take it a step further. Suppose someone thought something evil. Then, of course, God would have to step in and prevent him from thinking anything bad at all, right? The end result would be that God could not allow anyone to think freely. Since everyone thinks, and no one thinks only pure thoughts, God would be pretty busy, and we wouldn't be able to think. Anyway, at what point do we stop - at the murder level, stealing level, lying level, or thinking level? As your question implies, if you want God to stop evil, you would have to be consistent and want Him to do it everywhere all the time, not just pick and choose. It wouldn't work.\n      Evil is in this world partly because we give it its place but ultimately because God, in His sovereignty, permits it and keeps it under His control.\n      Then you might say, "Couldn't He just make us perfect and that way we wouldn't sin?" He already did that. He made a perfect angel, Satan, but he sinned. He made a perfect man, Adam, and he sinned. He made a perfect woman, Eve, and she sinned. God knows what He is doing. He made us the way we are for a purpose. We don't fully understand that purpose, but He does. \nGod is sovereign; He has the right to do as He wishes. He has the right to permit evil for accomplishing His ultimate will. How can He do that? Simple, look at the Cross. It was by evil means that men lied and crucified Jesus. Yet God in His infinite wisdom used this evil for good. It was on the Cross that Jesus bore our sins in His body (1 Peter. 2:24) and it is because of the Cross that we can have forgiveness of sins. \nConsider the biblical example of Joseph in the Old Testament. He was sold into slavery by his brothers. Though they meant it for evil, God meant it for good (Gen. 50:20). God is so great that nothing happens without His permission, and in that permission His ultimate plan unfolds. In His plan He is able to use for good what man intends for evil. God is in control.
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F, because God (probably) doesn't exist, but if he did, then it would be E.  Some people say it was Satan, but the thing is everything Satan does he has to get the O.K. from God first (as seen in the story of Job)  It'd be kind of like how even though the Godfather doesn't kill the people in the Maffia, he does order the deaths.
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God is so powerful, he can even cause Internet trolls to (oh so cleverly, they think) copy and paste into Yahoo Answers some clever riddle they found on the Internet about big rocks or hot burritos; it is easy of course to frame up some nonsense question, a poor man's version of an Escher drawing, and demand that God fulfill it.\n\nThis one fails more easily than most, at least in terms of a Christian response. Here's how God, if he were not mindful of his own words to not "put the Lord your God to the test," could work it:\n\n1. God the Father creates a one ton rock, and drops it in Galilee.\n\n2. Christ the Son tries to move it using only natural means, and since Christ is both Fully God and Fully Man, his natural-only efforts, being human, do not succeed.\n\nVoila; copy-paste Internet troll foiled!!
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cause he did not obet God and God created all and the devil is just agaist it.....but its all good.......casue the day will come where he will be in Hell burning for ever and ever and ever ...and im sure u got the point
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Certainly He could.  There is nothing that God can't do.  However, if He were to make such a boulder, then there would be something he couldn't do.\n\nWhere is it written that God can't relinquish His omnipotence?
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I sincerely doubt that Satan could repent.  Satan is used in the Bible as the personification of all evil, and without evil there can be no good (good is only good when there is evil to compare it to).\n\nThis also explains why god never tries to destroy Satan - he would destroy himself in the process.