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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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What is more objectionable to Christians: Satanism or Atheism?
One would have to make some sort of survey to answer the question regarding the two alternatives offered, by the question, regarding Christians.
To my own mind, it is clear what Jesus Christ's values ...
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Is there any biblical basis for believing that Satan will do his uttermost to prevent a sinner from coming to saving faith in Christ Jesus?
I would first draw attention to the Parable of the Sower in Matthew, where Jesus equates the bird that snatches the seed (the gospel) to the evil one, which is Satan.
When anyone hears the word of ...
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How do I restrict the activities of Satanic forces around the teaching of the Word Of God?
The Bible tells us that Christians are engaged in spiritual warfare against satanic forces. Ephesians 6:10–12 says:
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armour of ...
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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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Did Satan physically and literally fall from Heaven or Sky?
Fall of Satan I did my college thesis on the Fall of Satan, because it is important in establishing the Lordship of Christ over the world in the Kingdom of God! You picked a good topic.
First, the ...
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Did Satan physically and literally fall from Heaven or Sky?
First, let's clarify what the Bible means by "heaven" which has 2 senses:
Part of the universe (the "sky"), usually denoted in the plural "heavens" in the Biblical ...
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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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Is there any biblical basis for believing that Satan will do his uttermost to prevent a sinner from coming to saving faith in Christ Jesus?
Is there any biblical basis for believing that Satan will do his uttermost to prevent a sinner from coming to saving faith in Christ Jesus?
The short answer is yes.
It is all too clear that the ...
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What is more objectionable to Christians: Satanism or Atheism?
I would argue for atheism.
Satanists are certainly opposed to God... but they recognize that God, or at least Satan, exists. "You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and ...
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Who is "the devil"?
Who is "the devil"?
The word devil comes from the Greek diabolos, which means accuser, and which was used to translate or indicate the one in Hebrew referred to as Satan (with the definite ...
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What is the genre of "The Screwtape Letters"?
The only other story in this vein I've ever read was The Loser Letters There also is a follow-up to The Screwtape Letters called Screwtape Proposes a Toast.
As for the genre, I looked it up in my ...
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What is more objectionable to Christians: Satanism or Atheism?
The answer depends somewhat on the type of atheism and the type of Satanism. However, Satanism has little intellectual or moral power and is not a great threat either to Christianity or the world. ...
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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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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 genre of "The Screwtape Letters"?
I have a copy of ‘The Screwtape Letters’ and found it insightful, even if it was written “tongue-in-cheek”. At least it came from the pen of a Christian and illustrates how the spiritual forces of ...
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What is the genre of "The Screwtape Letters"?
What is the genre of "The Screwtape Letters"?
I am sure there may be several ways to characterize this type of Christian fiction, but I believe ”Christian demonic fiction” would be quite ...
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What is the genre of "The Screwtape Letters"?
Arena, by Karen Hancock, is science fiction, but set in contemporary times, and has a demonic-ish character.
She also wrote a series, "Legends of the Guardian King", which is fantasy in a ...
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Since God allows Satan to exist, why should we pray for him to be crushed?
One does not need to be a Catholic in order to pray for God to crush Satan! Anybody who reads the Bible and who has spotted the first prophecy (in Genesis 3:15) will know that God has promised to ...
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What is more objectionable to Christians: Satanism or Atheism?
There are certain differences between atheists and devil worshippers. Atheists do not have a motivator .They come together with identical ideologies and go public challenging the faithful. Devil ...
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What is more objectionable to Christians: Satanism or Atheism?
In Matthew 12:30 (ESV), Jesus says "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters." This is in response to various people accusing him of being in ...
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Who is "the devil"?
Of course, the Devil was there from the beginning. But, there has been a paradigm shift in the image of the Devil that human beings have had. For instance, the Devil had been on talking terms with ...
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Is there any biblical basis for believing that Satan will do his uttermost to prevent a sinner from coming to saving faith in Christ Jesus?
Allow me to share with you a brief extract from a (lengthy) sermon by Charles Spurgeon, The Devil's Last Throw, referred to in my question above.
... when a person had almost believed in Christ, but ...
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Is there any biblical basis for believing that Satan will do his uttermost to prevent a sinner from coming to saving faith in Christ Jesus?
There are many statements and points in the Bible that warn those with faith in God to beware of this invisible entity, known by various epithets such as Satan the devil, the great red dragon, the ...
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Why does God, according to his own words, "create evil"?
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, evil can mean:
Profoundly immoral and malevolent: This usage describes the moral quality of certain actions or behaviors. For example, "He committed ...
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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 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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