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This truth also Holy Scripture confirms, saying: God is light, and there is no darkness in Him, (I John i, 5)

Amen. And yet God created Satan, who was a "murderer from the beginning."

If God truly didn't want any evil within His creation, He could easily erase Satan from all existence.

And yet He doesn't.

Obviously evil serves a purpose of God, just as heresy serves a purpose...

"For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you." -- 1 Corinthains 11:19

God is all holy and within Him there is no evil. Yet God created Satan and permits Satan to prowl the earth, spewing lies.

Thankfully, by His word we know that...

"God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him." -- 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10

5,142 posted on 04/25/2008 1:08:09 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)

To: Dr. Eckleburg; RinaseaofDs; kosta50; blue-duncan

“”If God truly didn't want any evil within His creation, He could easily erase Satan from all existence.””

Everything is one NOW with God.

The devil's pride, Adam and Eve's fall ,yours and my sins,the beginning and end of the world is all one EVENT and NOW with God

God who is love has created and willed all things in perfection and love.

All corrupted nature and sin is man's free doing,not God's

5,146 posted on 04/25/2008 1:22:35 PM PDT by stfassisi ( ("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi))

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