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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: richpick Ordered by Date |
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1 | Genesis serpent and Satan? | Bible general Archive 2 | richpick | 97080 | ||
Radioman, I am not pro-Satan but rather pro-compassion. Someone with less of a heart might have no trouble accepting things like Psalm 137 where praise is given for those that bash babies against the rocks but I am having a hard time with all this and am thinking of leaving Christianity altogether. I come here for answers and all you and charlemaigne give me are the old brush off. Thanks for nothing. I doubt if i will post here again. I will look for Christians who care enough to take on the difficult questions that i have. | ||||||
2 | Genesis serpent and Satan? | Bible general Archive 2 | richpick | 97079 | ||
Radioman, I am not pro-Satan but rather pro-compassion. Someone with less of a heart might have no trouble accepting things like Psalm 137 where praise is given for those that bash babies against the rocks but I am having a hard time with all this and am thinking of leaving Christianity altogether. I come here for answers and all you and charlemaigne give me are the old brush off. Thanks for nothing. I doubt if i will post here again. I will look for Christians who care enough to take on the difficult questions that i have. | ||||||
3 | Genesis serpent and Satan? | Ezek 28:13 | richpick | 97078 | ||
Thank you Christian 7 for being the only one not to brush me off because I ask difficult questions. Your answer might be what I am looking for. Although I still have many more questions, I doubt if I will post them here. Most people who have responded seem too insecure to answer what I have to ask. Thank you again. Bless you and your family. | ||||||
4 | Genesis serpent and Satan? | Not Specified | richpick | 96981 | ||
Where in the Bible does it make a connection between Satan and the serpent of Genesis? The only mention of Satan in the Old Testament is in the book of Job, where Satan approaches God with other of his sons. God asks Satan what he has been doing to which he replies that he has been wandering the earth. God then sends Satan to torment the faithful Job. The feel of the story is that Satan is God’s servant or even son, not his enemy. He may be the favored son because none of His other sons are even mentioned by name. There is no implication of Satan being a rebel or a tempter, that does not come until the New Testament authors add their two-cents worth. In fact there is no real evidence of Satan doing anything evil in the Bible, just warnings and temptations. God on the other hand has been responsible for a. Genocide (Noah’s flood) b. Murder of 42 little children (2 Kings 2:23-24) c. Murder of Midianite children (Numbers 31:1-18) d. Murdering a person for saving the Ark of the Covenant (1 Chron 13:7-11) e. Mass murder of men for being in interfaith relationships (Numbers 25:5-6) These all seem like pretty evil deeds to me. Do you think murdering children is evil? I sure hope that you do and I would like to know how we can justify these deeds of God. While we are on the subject of Satan, I have a few additional thoughts. Now supposedly, Satan was second in heaven, and thus possessed of superhuman insight, yet his pride led him to rebel against God. So if he was so smart, he should have come up with the conclusion that God would have a plan to cope with his rebellion. It has been laid open in the Scripture where man and demon alike can read it. Satan then, should be well aware that to the extent he encourages people to act in the fashion already described in the prophecies, he will in fact be helping God carry out his divine plan. Some rebel! It would be far more rebellious for him to do nothing. For a superhuman power, second only to God in intelligence, to so conveniently and willingly play the role that God requires of him, while remaining his implacable foe, seems absurd. This is especially the case when God continually rubs it in by publishing all over the world what Satan will do before he does it. Do you not think that Satan has read the Bible? If Satan were truly God’s enemy, then he would have let Jesus die of old age. Had Jesus died naturally, our standard theology would suggest that we could not now be saved, for according to most views it took his death as some sort of sacrifice to make God’s forgiveness of our sins possible. What greater blow could Satan give to God and humanity were he truly the evil one he is made out to be? Lastly, if Satan were God’s true enemy, then why doesn’t God just destroy him? God had no trouble wiping out the whole population of the Earth with His flood. He had no qualm about destroying the Tower of Babel or sending a she-bear after the little children who made fun of Isaiah’s bald head, so what could it hurt Him to destroy the one opponent that poses the greatest threat to his people? Someone answered once that God allows Satan to “weed out” all of the corruptible souls. He likes to see who retains faith in Him despite all of the temptations that Satan whispers. Putting that into perspective, that is like George Bush allowing Saddam Hussein to openly travel the U.S. and encourage Americans to move to Iraq. George just wants to see who retains faith in America and who leaves with Saddam. That type of thinking just doesn’t make sense. How can we solve these dilemmas in Christian doctrine? |
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5 | Genesis serpent and Satan? | Bible general Archive 2 | richpick | 96991 | ||
Where in the Bible does it make a connection between Satan and the serpent of Genesis? The only mention of Satan in the Old Testament is in the book of Job, where Satan approaches God with other of his sons. God asks Satan what he has been doing to which he replies that he has been wandering the earth. God then sends Satan to torment the faithful Job. The feel of the story is that Satan is God’s servant or even son, not his enemy. He may be the favored son because none of His other sons are even mentioned by name. There is no implication of Satan being a rebel or a tempter, that does not come until the New Testament authors add their two-cents worth. In fact there is no real evidence of Satan doing anything evil in the Bible, just warnings and temptations. God on the other hand has been responsible for a. Genocide (Noah’s flood) b. Murder of 42 little children (2 Kings 2:23-24) c. Murder of Midianite children (Numbers 31:1-18) d. Murdering a person for saving the Ark of the Covenant (1 Chron 13:7-11) e. Mass murder of men for being in interfaith relationships (Numbers 25:5-6) These all seem like pretty evil deeds to me. Do you think murdering children is evil? I sure hope that you do and I would like to know how we can justify these deeds of God. While we are on the subject of Satan, I have a few additional thoughts. Now supposedly, Satan was second in heaven, and thus possessed of superhuman insight, yet his pride led him to rebel against God. So if he was so smart, he should have come up with the conclusion that God would have a plan to cope with his rebellion. It has been laid open in the Scripture where man and demon alike can read it. Satan then, should be well aware that to the extent he encourages people to act in the fashion already described in the prophecies, he will in fact be helping God carry out his divine plan. Some rebel! It would be far more rebellious for him to do nothing. For a superhuman power, second only to God in intelligence, to so conveniently and willingly play the role that God requires of him, while remaining his implacable foe, seems absurd. This is especially the case when God continually rubs it in by publishing all over the world what Satan will do before he does it. Do you not think that Satan has read the Bible? If Satan were truly God’s enemy, then he would have let Jesus die of old age. Had Jesus died naturally, our standard theology would suggest that we could not now be saved, for according to most views it took his death as some sort of sacrifice to make God’s forgiveness of our sins possible. What greater blow could Satan give to God and humanity were he truly the evil one he is made out to be? Lastly, if Satan were God’s true enemy, then why doesn’t God just destroy him? God had no trouble wiping out the whole population of the Earth with His flood. He had no qualm about destroying the Tower of Babel or sending a she-bear after the little children who made fun of Isaiah’s bald head, so what could it hurt Him to destroy the one opponent that poses the greatest threat to his people? Someone answered once that God allows Satan to “weed out” all of the corruptible souls. He likes to see who retains faith in Him despite all of the temptations that Satan whispers. Putting that into perspective, that is like George Bush allowing Saddam Hussein to openly travel the U.S. and encourage Americans to move to Iraq. George just wants to see who retains faith in America and who leaves with Saddam. That type of thinking just doesn’t make sense. How can we solve these dilemmas in Christian doctrine? |
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6 | Genesis serpent and Satan? | Ezek 28:13 | richpick | 96998 | ||
Where in the Bible does it make a connection between Satan and the serpent of Genesis? The only mention of Satan in the Old Testament is in the book of Job, where Satan approaches God with other of his sons. God asks Satan what he has been doing to which he replies that he has been wandering the earth. God then sends Satan to torment the faithful Job. The feel of the story is that Satan is God’s servant or even son, not his enemy. He may be the favored son because none of His other sons are even mentioned by name. There is no implication of Satan being a rebel or a tempter, that does not come until the New Testament authors add their two-cents worth. In fact there is no real evidence of Satan doing anything evil in the Bible, just warnings and temptations. God on the other hand has been responsible for a. Genocide (Noah’s flood) b. Murder of 42 little children (2 Kings 2:23-24) c. Murder of Midianite children (Numbers 31:1-18) d. Murdering a person for saving the Ark of the Covenant (1 Chron 13:7-11) e. Mass murder of men for being in interfaith relationships (Numbers 25:5-6) These all seem like pretty evil deeds to me. Do you think murdering children is evil? I sure hope that you do and I would like to know how we can justify these deeds of God. While we are on the subject of Satan, I have a few additional thoughts. Now supposedly, Satan was second in heaven, and thus possessed of superhuman insight, yet his pride led him to rebel against God. So if he was so smart, he should have come up with the conclusion that God would have a plan to cope with his rebellion. It has been laid open in the Scripture where man and demon alike can read it. Satan then, should be well aware that to the extent he encourages people to act in the fashion already described in the prophecies, he will in fact be helping God carry out his divine plan. Some rebel! It would be far more rebellious for him to do nothing. For a superhuman power, second only to God in intelligence, to so conveniently and willingly play the role that God requires of him, while remaining his implacable foe, seems absurd. This is especially the case when God continually rubs it in by publishing all over the world what Satan will do before he does it. Do you not think that Satan has read the Bible? If Satan were truly God’s enemy, then he would have let Jesus die of old age. Had Jesus died naturally, our standard theology would suggest that we could not now be saved, for according to most views it took his death as some sort of sacrifice to make God’s forgiveness of our sins possible. What greater blow could Satan give to God and humanity were he truly the evil one he is made out to be? Lastly, if Satan were God’s true enemy, then why doesn’t God just destroy him? God had no trouble wiping out the whole population of the Earth with His flood. He had no qualm about destroying the Tower of Babel or sending a she-bear after the little children who made fun of Isaiah’s bald head, so what could it hurt Him to destroy the one opponent that poses the greatest threat to his people? Someone answered once that God allows Satan to “weed out” all of the corruptible souls. He likes to see who retains faith in Him despite all of the temptations that Satan whispers. Putting that into perspective, that is like George Bush allowing Saddam Hussein to openly travel the U.S. and encourage Americans to move to Iraq. George just wants to see who retains faith in America and who leaves with Saddam. That type of thinking just doesn’t make sense. How can we solve these dilemmas in Christian doctrine? |
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