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Why does God, according to his own words, "create evil"?
At the outset, we need to grasp the significance of the sentence preceding the one you quoted:
There is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
This is the Lord God Almighty, creator ...
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Why does God, according to his own words, "create evil"?
This explanation is extracted from the New English Translation version:
God is ultimately sovereign over his creation, including mankind and
nations, in accordance with his sovereign will, he can ...
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Does the false prophet cause the spirit of Satan to move into the image to give it life?
It is Satan himself who causes the arising of the beast from the sea, the beast from the earth, the false prophet, and the making of the image. Satan gives rise to those means of getting his wicked ...
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How can some Christians deny devils and Hell exist?
The simple answer is that some people so interpret the Bible as to turn literal aspects of such things into symbols for something else that is non-literal.
You further ask how such persons are ...
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Do any denominations teach that angels have, or do not have, free will?
The Catholic Church says yes, angels have free will. See for example paragraph 309 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
As purely spiritual creatures angels have intelligence and will: they
are ...
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How did Satan get into Eden?
It was part of God's eternal plan that the Devil should enter into Eden and tempt Adam and Eve. Without this no other part of God's plan of redemption could have taken place.
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Why did Michael the Archangel defeat Satan instead of God himself?
I am not aware of any official Church teaching on the matter but the following is a Catholic opinion.
Some people might mistakenly believe that God and Satan are some type of rivals or even equals, ...
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Is God in everything? Resolve 1 Kings 19:11-12 with Ephesians 1:22-23
A simple way to resolve these verses is to hold Ephesians 1:22-23's 'all things' and 'everything' is bracketed, and has to do with the new creation and Kingdom, a view which is reasonable given the ...
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Wilderness temptations of Christ: how did Satan appear to Jesus?
Where is there any basis for claiming that Jesus Christ had any satanically-driven thoughts?
Yes, Satan tried to put thoughts into Jesus' mind that had all the hall-marks of the deceiver. Yet the ...
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What is the basis for the Christadelphian belief that Satan is not a personal being?
Many years ago I spent several months having weekly discussions with a local Christadelphian couple. The husband was a prominent leader in their congregation. From the notes I took and the literature ...
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Could the invisible incomprehensible nature of God be the reason why Satan started a war in heaven?
In the essay "Satan's Triad of Vices" by Robert C. Fox, the author makes a connection between Milton's Paradise Lost and ideas from Saint Gregory's "Moralia in Job". The triad of ...
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Was salvation available to Lucifer and those angels who rebelled with him?
St. Alphonsus di Liguori considers the reprobation of Satan in his booklet Treatiste on Prayer. He concludes that before he fell, he was given sufficient grace by means of prayer to be numbered among ...
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If Satan is not a person, how do Christadelphians explain what "satan" was in the case of Job?
This is a bit of a straw man question. It's founded on the statement "the Christadelphian view that Satan is not a person" backed up by repeating the text of another question from a non-...
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If a third (or a large number) of angels rebelled, what was the justification?
If a third (or a large number) of angels rebelled, what was the justification?
We know not the exact moment the angels were created, but we know that they were created naturally good. Although, at the ...
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If a third (or a large number) of angels rebelled, what was the justification?
The Bible describes the essential factors in Lucifer's fall. Lucifer could have stayed in favor with God, loved and honored by all the angels, exercising his God-given abilities to bless others and ...
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If a third (or a large number) of angels rebelled, what was the justification?
What was the justification of angelic rebellion?
You suggested that the creation of mankind was a factor, that
... their creation and future/destiny stir some resentment among the angels and their ...
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According to the Catholic Church, has Satan ever appeared on earth since biblical times?
According to the Catholic Church, has Satan ever appeared on earth since biblical times?
It is rather hard to get a clear and unambiguous yes answer to this question, but it is permitted for the ...
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How did Satan get into Eden?
("There is general agreement that Satan had already rebelled when Eden was created and that Eve sinned just a few hours/days after creation."..)
Your assumption will negate potential answers ...
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How did Satan get into Eden?
First, understand that Satan was, and still is, the god of this world:
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
— John 12:31
In whom the god of this world ...
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How did Satan get into Eden?
It appears that the first time the word we translate into English as "Satan" didn't appear in the Hebrew scriptures until Job 1:6 which speaks of this one appearing in heaven along with the ...
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Do any denominations teach that angels have, or do not have, free will?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does teach that angels have free will, including Lucifer and those that followed him, though angelology in LDS teachings is distinct in identifying ...
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According to Catholicism, who is the leader of devils?
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All four Bible citations talk about the same devil, as Satan, Lucifer, and Beelzebub are different personalities (and names) of the same devil according to the Roman Catholic tradition,[citation ...
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