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Almighty God created Satan and evils

Posted on 12/18/2005 4:18:30 PM PST by kevnmoon

Why are devils created? Almighty God created Satan and evils; what is the wisdom in it? Isn’t the creation of evil, evil, and the creation of bad, bad? God forbid, the creation of evil is not evil, the ‘acquisition’ of or desire for evil, rather, is evil. For creation and bringing into existence look to all the consequences, whereas such desire looks to a particular result, since it is a particular relation. For example, there are thousands of consequences of rain falling, and all of them are good. If through mischoice, some people receive harm from the rain, they cannot say that the creation of rain is not mercy, they cannot state that the creation of rain is evil. For it is due to their mischoice and inclination that it is evil for them. Also, there are numerous benefits in the creation of fire, and all of them are good. But if some people receive harm from fire through their misuse of it and their wrong choice, they cannot say that the creation of fire is evil; because it was not only created to burn them. Rather, they thrust their hands into the fire while cooking the food through mischoice, and made that servant inimical to themselves. The lesser evil is acceptable for the greater good. If an evil which will lead to a greater good is abandoned so that a lesser evil should not be, a greater evil will then have been perpetrated Thus, the creation and bringing into existence of evils, harms, tribulations, satans, and harmful things, is not evil and bad, for they are created for the many important results they yield. For example, satans have not been set to pester the angels, and the angels cannot progress; their degrees are fixed and deficient. Thus, through the creation of satans and the mystery of man’s accountability and the sending of prophets, an arena of trial and examination and striving and competition has been opened so that coal-like base spirits may be differentiated and separated out from diamond-like elevated spirits. If there had been no striving and competition, the potentialities in the mine of humanity which are like diamonds and coal would have remained equal. This means that since the creation of satans and evils looks to great and universal results, their being brought into existence is not evil or bad. The evils and instances of bad that arise from abuses and the particular causes known as inclination or choice pertain to man’s ‘acquisition’ and choice, not to Divine creation.


TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: beebers; satan; satanandwisdom; whowantskoolaid
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To: kevnmoon

God created free will...evil created itself.


61 posted on 12/18/2005 5:41:58 PM PST by madison10
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To: kevnmoon

God created evil and carried its consequences on His very own shoulders through Christ, furthering His Kingdom into Empire, empirics and share with us mortal beings. It's not God but Trinity.

Those refusing to admit that are in a special league if uerberEvils, or, rather, they are fools who want to be hurt by evil so as in a ploy to blame God and take His power.

It's not going to work because Christ forgave and resurected, the empirics validated, the salvation made possible, the erasure of evil a real opportunity.


62 posted on 12/18/2005 5:49:53 PM PST by JudgemAll (Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
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To: kevnmoon

Evil is the greatest opportunity ever for good:

1. One is freeer than he were free when safe when one gives himself the greatest latitudes in fighting evil. There is no greater freedom and daring than in bravely exploring and fighting evil. Even the smallest of child does that and tries while getting aborted.

2. Evil self-destructs ultimately because evil relies on good for its own subsistence, on constriction of latitudes for vindication, which it cannot do and can only self-constrict and selfhate in the process. Hell is a very voluntary thing, a choice indeed, and not a punishment from God, though those with conflict of interests would like to abolish these high laws inconveniencing them. Thus there is a parallel between wishful thinking and the treacherous constricting heart that has chosen hell and which wants to project and accuse others of punishing them.


63 posted on 12/18/2005 5:59:36 PM PST by JudgemAll (Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
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To: Americanchild
Despite the incoherent ramblings of this author, God did not create evil. Devils are fallen angels who chose to reject God, for they, like us, have free will.

Actually he did create all things. The laws of nature and science demand opposing ends. You have good and evil, light and dark. GOD is sovereign over all and controls the boundaries of all his creation but evil is as much a part of the creation as light & dark. But it was satans choice of freewill that manifested evil. It was there up till his rebellion and it was his choice to utilize it.

Free will of which evil is an unfortunate by-product is part of GOD's creation. But the knowledge of good and evil on earth was not known {as it was in the heavens} until the fall of man in the Garden of Eden.

64 posted on 12/18/2005 6:04:42 PM PST by cva66snipe
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To: Invincibly Ignorant

Why such a plain and simple text? Why not one that allows equivocation, muffing, fumbling, and thoughts of wiser professors?


65 posted on 12/18/2005 6:08:49 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew

exactly


66 posted on 12/18/2005 6:11:09 PM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: kevnmoon; All
"Looks like someone's been smoking Angel Dust, Goliath!"
67 posted on 12/18/2005 7:48:11 PM PST by Solamente
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To: kevnmoon

Can I have some of what you've been smoking?


68 posted on 12/18/2005 8:51:29 PM PST by John Will
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To: madison10
God created free will...evil created itself.

ding ding ding....we have a winner Hugh, tell em what he's won !

Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

evil is the absence of God

Anyone who tells you He is the author of evil is misreading the hebrew or greek.

To put a finer point on it, it is not of the nature of perfection to create imperfection. However, it is in His will to create "calamity".

pleasure to have spoken with you

Merry Christmas

69 posted on 12/19/2005 1:14:37 PM PST by Revelation 911 (God is love, Love endures forever, Love God, Love your neighbor, Vengeance is mine)
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