ANSWERS: 29
  • You get the 'Big If' award of the day. Here's another 'Big If' for you: what if God didn't know that Lucifer was going to rebel? The same question could be asked about Adam.
  • If there was a god there would have to be a devil, you cannot have one without the other. Nature will always find an equlibrium. Since men invented the gods they had to have some sort of anti-god for balance. Without the contrast, how would you know good from evil, at least in the religious sense?
    • ReiSan
      The Devil was not even mentioned in the first parts of the Bible. He is a copy of the evil deity Ahriman in Zoroastrianism of Persia. He thus was added soon after Persia conquered Israel.
    • mushroom
      There is no proper noun Devil in the Hebrew Bible, only "ha-Satan" meaning an obstacle or adversary sent by God as a challenge.
  • i didnt know he did
  • It wanted someone to spar with.
  • God gave free will , and we choose what roads were going to take . Yes God knows the outcome of both of those roads but by free will we have a choice of what road we shall take Lucifer chose rebellion against God .Adam chose to ignore God's warning . And we chose everyday to follow God or go our own way .God knows the possible outcomes for us but we choose the ones were going to take .
  • I have no proof that either one exists.
  • Maybe God had this plan already made. For good reason God let this happen.
    • Linda Joy
      Where have you been? Miss you!
  • Jehovah God gave all his creation free will...so Satan chose wrongly...making himself an enemy of Jehovah....Sadly, a third of all the created angels in heaven also chose wrong...and these ones became the demons. (Revelation 8:12) The fourth angel blew his trumpet. And a third of the sun was struck and a third of the moon and a third of the stars, in order that a third of them might be darkened and the day might not have light for a third of it, and the night likewise. In this scripture, the stars are the angels. (Revelation 12:4) and its tail drags a third of the stars of heaven, and it hurled them down to the earth. And the dragon kept standing before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she did give birth, it might devour her child.
  • There must be opposition in all things.
    • Lilo Avli
      I disagree.
    • Linda Joy
      ok
    • mushroom
      You may disagree with Newton, but the Law is the Law.
    • Linda Joy
      Maybe, like Road Runner, he never studied law. lol
  • That makes no sense. Still, it is part of the con game. If God is omniscient, he knew the Devil would lead many of his creations into eternal punishment. Only an extremely sadistic deity would allow this. God is far worse than the Devil, for he created him knowing what he would do and allows him to lead millions of humans to eternal torture. Fear of Hell and enforcing guilt upon people motivates them to pay Christians churches 10% of their money. It is a crude con game. If a person can be logical, critical and objective, he laughs at such a goofy tale. Clergymen try to arouse hysteria, so that People cannot be logical, critical and objective, of course. If God is omniscient, he is the ultimate sadist who creates humans so that he can torture many or most of them forever. He was not omniscient in the first tales about him. He comes across as a clumsy ninny who is quite ineffectual as a creator.
    • Jenny The Great ⭐
      Quote: "Only an extremely sadistic deity would allow this." You wouldn't like it if you were only allowed to do what God instructed you to do. Then you would say it is not fair. This is why none of what you say holds water. Romans 1:22 "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,"
    • Jenny The Great ⭐
      If that's the case, then God couldn't be any fairer. To your hell remarks, hell means Sheol in Hebrew and Hades in Greek. They both mean the common grave.
  • you need to ask god that question
    • Jenny The Great ⭐
      Maybe the questioner can send God a text message to get an answer?
    • Linda Joy
      Pearl is right!! And you should be ashamed of yourself for discouraging people from going directly to God in prayer for answers! What is your problem? Afraid you won't seem as important to yourself if YOU are not the giver of all information religious?!! Pride goeth before a fall! And texting God would make more sense than asking a bunch of people who don't know crap about scripture!! Prayer can take the form of a text message and God can answer any request if the asker is willing to listen to the answer!
    • mushroom
      There's an app to send your message to God, and it will be printed and placed in the Western Wall in Jerusalem. So far, that's about as direct as it gets.
    • Linda Joy
      You can also send prayer requests to the LDS temple online.
  • Just as light and darkness exist, God received all the glory when Lucifer rebelled in Heaven by his freewill. Logically, God uses sin to prove that sin is bad. John 1:5 "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."
    • Jenny The Great ⭐
      Quote: "The devil was not invented until the time that Persia took control of Israel." The devil was already known as the ancient serpent in the beginning of Creation. Genesis 3:1 "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?"
    • Jenny The Great ⭐
      Quote: "Read the Bible carefully and find where Devil, Satan or Lucifer is first mentioned by name." The word Bible is not mentioned in the Bible, yet we know what the Bible is about.
  • Who is Lucifer? If you’re referring to Satan, God created a perfect, intelligent angel. All angels were given free will, the ability to determine right from wrong and choose their own course. Satan means “resister” and devil means “slanderer”. God did not give his perfect angel that name! Those are adjectives that describe the characteristics of the spirit creature that chose to rebel against his Creator. His God-given name is unknown to us, satan the devil is not worthy of having his personal name written in the Holy Scriptures. John 8:44
  • Lucifer / Satan was created an angel and along with all the other angels was given free will...He chose to NOT be obedient to Jehovah god's standards...and so became ' the resistor' Resisting goodness. And is the current main cause of all the worlds problems... But he will be eliminated... (Revelation 6:2) And I saw, and look! a white horse, and the one seated on it had a bow; and a crown was given him, and he went out conquering and to complete his conquest. (Revelation 12:7-9) And war broke out in heaven: Miʹcha
    • pugwashjw65
      Satan and Devil mean Opposer and resistor...And YHWH is the tetragrammaton [ the four letters ] which does translate as Jehovah...a proper first name...it is NOT a title, like LORD or GOD.
    • Jenny The Great ⭐
      Good comment pugs.
    • pugwashjw65
      Hi Jen....its nice to get support...Pugs.
    • pugwashjw65
      So WHY does the Bible say this? (Psalm 69:30) I will sing praises to the name of God, And I will magnify him with thanksgiving. Name OF God...It does not say " whose name IS God. (Psalm 74:10) How long, O God, will the adversary keep taunting? Will the enemy treat your name with disrespect forever? ReISan, this is what you are doing. (Genesis 4:26) There was also born to Seth a son, and he named him Eʹnosh. At that time people began calling on the name of Jehovah. There he built an altar to Jehovah and began to call on the name of Jehovah. isa 51:15 (Isaiah 51:15) But I am Jehovah your God, Who stirs up the sea and makes its waves boisterous ?Jehovah of armies is his name. IF the term " God:/ god " is a personal name, pertaining to only one spiritual being, then Satan would also HAVE to be " God" (2 Corinthians 4:4) among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through. But commonsense tells us we know that NOT to be true.
  • This is a serious problem with religion. First off, if God exists, but does not interact with us in any material way, there is no way to understand his motives, and therefore, no logical explanation can be made to address your question. Secondly, if a devil exists, yet is completely undetectable to us, then we have no way of knowing that devil's name, let alone whether his name can even be pronounced with the sounds that humans can make, therefore there is no rational way to address this question. Thirdmost, since the stories in the Bible defy all rational thought, there is no way to reasonably address this question.
    • Jenny The Great ⭐
      If it seems that God does not interact with us, the rational explanation relies on our motives of: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. 1 John 2:16 "For all that is in the world, the lust and sensual craving of the flesh and the lust and longing of the eyes and the boastful pride of life [pretentious confidence in one's resources or in the stability of earthly things] these do not come from the Father, but are from the world."
    • pugwashjw65
      But he DOES, Jen...via his force the holy spirit...When on the earth, Jesus prayed for it...It was given [ as a power] to Jesus' disciples...it can be given to us...if we are obedient [ Matthew 28: 19,20 ] As in the case of Lazarus and Jairus' daughter...and we don't even know her name. WHO benefitted?...Jairus. Mark 5:24...(Luke 8:41-43) But look! a man named Jaʹi?rus came; this man was a presiding officer of the synagogue. And he fell at the feet of Jesus and began to plead with him to come to his house, 42 because his only daughter, who was about 12 years old, was dying. As Jesus was going, the crowds pressed in on him. 43 Now there was a woman who had a flow of blood for 12 years, and she had not been able to get a cure from anyone.
    • Jenny The Great ⭐
      pugs, hold your horses. I believe God interacts with the righteous. I'm not saying He doesn't. I'm saying God does not interact with people who have wrong motives when praying. James 4:3 "You ask [God for something] and do not receive it, because you ask with wrong motives [out of selfishness or with an unrighteous agenda], so that [when you get what you want] you may spend it on your [hedonistic] desires."
    • bostjan the adequate 🥉
      "God ... does not interact with us in any material way" was the statement I made. Obviously, stating that God interacts with us in a spiritual way would be impossible to prove or disprove. I think we can all agree that he doesn't interact in any material way; that is to say that any particular person cannot see, hear, smell, taste or feel him, except to feel in a broad (non-material) way. Since God is not a measurable physical thing, there is no way to explain his actions, real or otherwise, through rational thought. And that ought not to have anything to do with hormonal urges, since there are plenty of asexual folks who also cannot interact with God in a material sense.
    • pugwashjw65
      Out of all the comments, and citations, one sticks out..." I am Jehovah your God " IF the term ' God' is a personal name [ it is not ] then Jehovah is naming himself twice...does not make sense... But with Jehovah being the personal name and ' God' being his TITLE, IT DOES MAKE SENSE... Example...Mr. Smith the Banker...or Mr. Jones the Baker... Name and title..
    • bostjan the adequate 🥉
      Who said that "God" was a personal name? There have been countless lives lost in wars over whether God's name was Yaweh, Jehovah, Allah, or whatever. What if they were all wrong?
    • bostjan the adequate 🥉
      Thanks for the answer, but I don't understand how it can be proven to any rational standard of scrutiny.
    • bostjan the adequate 🥉
      So, in other words, the more religious an argument is, the less sense it ought to make... ...yet in any subject outside of politics and religion, if an argument makes no logical sense, it is dismissed.
    • bostjan the adequate 🥉
      I guess Jenny's comments got deleted, so now it looks like I was talking to myself. Whoever moderates these comments, feel free to clean my comments up as well, if appropriate.
    • Jenny The Great ⭐
      bostjan64, I don't know if your comments are new or old. Pugs is not active anymore. Other comments have disappeared too. What I can say in regards to your comments, without faith it is impossible to please God. (Hebrews 11:16) That is why God gave us the book of Hebrews. Example after example of true faith so that we will be imitators of those who through faith and patience longsuffering, endurance inherit the promises.
  • The same reason people created guns despite knowing all the killing that will happen and it's all they are made for. But they serve the purpose they are made for and not everyone is stupid enough to fall for it or die by it.
  • All of Jehovah’s works are perfect; he is not the author of unrighteousness; so he did not create anyone wicked. (Deut. 32:4 The Rock, perfect is his activity,+ For all his ways are justice.+ A God of faithfulness+ who is never unjust;+ Righteous and upright is he. The one who became Satan was originally a perfect spirit son of God. When saying that the Devil “did not stand fast in the truth,” Jesus indicated that at one time that one was “in the truth.” (John 8:44) 44 You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father.+ That one was a murderer when he began,+ and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie. But, as is true of all of God’s intelligent creatures, this spirit son was endowed with free will. He abused his freedom of choice, allowed feelings of self-importance to develop in his heart, began to crave worship that belonged only to God, and so enticed Adam and Eve to listen to him rather than obey God. Thus by his course of action he made himself Satan, which means “adversary.”—Jas. 1:14, 15
  • It was part of His original plan for us to be tested.
    • Texasescimo
      (James 1:12-18) Happy is the man who keeps on enduring trial, because on becoming approved he will receive the crown of life, which Jehovah promised to those who continue loving Him. 13 When under trial, let no one say: “I am being tried by God.” For with evil things God cannot be tried, nor does he himself try anyone. 14 But each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then the desire, when it has become fertile, gives birth to sin; in turn sin, when it has been carried out, brings forth death. 16 Do not be misled, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect present is from above, coming down from the Father of the celestial lights, who does not vary or change like the shifting shadows. 18 It was his will to bring us forth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
    • Linda Joy
      I said tested not tempted. And I don't know what funky bible you're using but this is the KJV: 12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be atempted with bevil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is atempted, when he is drawn away of his own blust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, ringeth forth death. 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
    • Linda Joy
      Do I need to copy in the story of Job as an example? Or do you agree he was tested, and it was God's idea? In fact God pointed Job out to Satan and allowed him to test Job.
  • Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.'"
  • To give man a choice
  • Lucifer was one of God's favorite angels until he started to want to take over the place and do things his way that's when he was cast down to earth
  • Did God create Satan the Devil? No! An angel who had been in heaven when God prepared the earth for Adam and Eve changed and became the Devil. Job 38:4, 7 How was that possible? Well, how does an honest person change and become a thief? He was not born a thief. But he desires, or wants, something that doesn’t belong to him. He keeps thinking about it, and his wrong desire becomes stronger. Then, when he gets a chance, he steals it. He has turned himself into a thief.
    • bostjan the adequate 🥉
      Assume God exists. Assume God is omnipresent and omniscient. Assume God created Lucifer as an angel. God is omniscient, therefore God knew when Lucifer was created that Lucifer would ultimately become Satan. Therefore there are only two possibilities. Either A) God is malevolent toward humanity or B) God did not create Lucifer. Assuming that God created all things, as we did, that means that, in case "B," Lucifer/Satan does not exist.
  • i think he was an angel at first and there was some kafuffle over jealousy ..am not sure how correct that is
  • For the same reason that any of us have children and tell those kids stay out of the cookie jar until after dinner. You know darn well the minute that you tell somebody not to do something that's the first thing they're going to do. And you know in advance before you have children they're going to disobey you many times. I'm sure God knew the minute that he told Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree that they were going to do that. I can only assume because he's God he had a reason why he wanted them to go through everything the human race has gone through.
  • The question basically is, Did God create Evil? Could that be the case really? Well, how many parents have had their son, daughter, make wrong choices. Even after warning them of the consequences that they might face for their choices, then regrettably watched has they broke your heart. The thing about free will is, you either have or not. God gave all his intelligent creatures this precious gift, and then could only let it play out. Was He happy about how it turned out? No! We know this for sure because the Bible at Genesis 6:6 "Jehovah regretted that he had made men on the earth, and his heart was saddened." NWT why because in verse 5 it says "Consequently, Jehovah saw that man’s wickedness was great on the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only bad all the time." NWT So the freedom to make choices means we accept the consequences of those choices, right? So the God gave Adam and then Eve the choice to obey or not, they had free will, it was their choice, so to say God made them and so the consequences are on Him is not a valid argument; because God had to let them make their own choice or take away their free will, Right? The Bible American Standard Version puts it this way at Job 34:10-12 "Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.11For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.12Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice. The NWT says this way 10So listen to me, you men of understanding: It is unthinkable for the true God to act wickedly, For the Almighty to do wrong!11 For he will reward a man according to what he does And bring upon him the consequences of his ways.12 For a certainty, God does not act wickedly; The Almighty does not pervert justice. The good news is that soon the NWT Study Bible at Psalm 37 gives clear consequences for the people who make wrong choices at verse 10 it says "Just a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more; You will look at where they were, And they will not be there.' verse 20 says But the wicked will perish; The enemies of Jehovah will vanish like glorious pastures; They will vanish like smoke." Also Lucifer, or Satan the Devil, will be destroyed the King James puts it this way in Hebrews 2:14 "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil" So when Lucifer, or Satan the Devil, is destroyed then evil will be destroyed also. Right? I would like to leave you a link that uses the Bible and will go into more detail, I hope you find it interesting...https://www.jw.org/finder?srcid=jwlshare&wtlocale=E&prefer=lang&docid=1102013400.
  • One would have to believe god existed in the first place? To do any of that. you are all weak minded if you need to belive in things that don't exist .
  • Creators create.
  • I would suggest studying Romans 9 and you may also find Ezekiel chapters 25-32 helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWMZnS4kstU
  • As far as whether the devil was deliberately created by God, we should examine what the scriptures say about this. Psalm 5:4 indicates that God does not take delight in wickedness. Then Deuteronomy 32:4 mentions how God’s activity is perfect and all his ways are justice. Would a perfect and just God deliberately create someone to wreak havoc on the universe in opposition to him? At John 8:44 it says that the Devil did not stand fast in the truth. So if he didn’t stay in the truth, he must have been in ‘the truth’ at one time, meaning he had been created as part of God’s righteous creation of spirit creatures (angels). James 1:13-15 indicates that we are drawn out by sin, enticed by our own desires. Therefore, Satan desired worship and rulership that belonged to God, as evidenced by the scriptural account where Satan tries to tempt Jesus into doing an act of worship to him (Matthew 4:8,9). Therefore, Satan is identified at Revelation 12:9 as the original serpent who deceived Eve in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:1-6). That is what led to the mankind’s downfall into sin and death (Romans 5:12). 1 John 5:19 says that Satan is the ruler of this current world. The scriptures indicate that we are living in the last days of this present system of things, and Bible prophecy is fulfilling this. The gospel accounts told us that in the last days of this system of things, we would an increase in a war, famine, pestilences, and natural disasters (Matthew 24:3, 7, 8 and Luke 21:10, 11). There would also be an increase in bad and selfish attitudes among people in general (2 Timothy 3:1-5). So we are in an unprecedented time in human history, and therefore we should be watching world conditions and understand what they mean. However, the time for God to act is coming soon. The scriptures promise that in the future soon, God will restore the peaceful conditions to the earth that he intended. He promises that wicked people will be destroyed and that righteous people will live on the earth forever (Psalm 37:10, 11). The earth will become a paradise again and peaceful conditions will be restored. For example, there will be peace between all humans and animals (Isaiah 11:6-9). We will build our own houses and plant and eat from our own gardens and vineyards (Isaiah 65:21, 22). It also says that there will be no more sickness (33:24) or sorrow or death (Revelation 21:4). Also, those who have hope as well, the scriptures say that there will be a resurrection of the dead back to life (Acts 24:15 and John 5:28, 29) For more information, you may visit Jehovah’s Witnesses’ website jw.org.

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