Bible Question:
We all know the book of Job is a hard one to fathom. There are many verses in Bible that affirm the sovereinty of the Lord. And Lord mentions that He is sovereign, He does not have any counsellor. OK. My question is why would God create Satan in the first place. And in the book of Job why He would listen to Satan's masochistic plans and nod to them too!?? Even when God reveals His Will and nature to Job... it does not compensate him justly as his relatives and family members are already dead and are never brought back to life? Q1- What about the sovereingty of God in the face of Satan's doings in God's presence? Q2. If God is all knowing and determines everything.. isnt our free will a myth?? God decides whether we believe in Him or not? This is predestination. Belief in God is not a choice but fate already decided by Him? I find it heart breaking. Please answer these two questions in the light of my comment and dont try to paint all positive and shining picture. Be realistic. Thanks. |
Bible Answer: My understanding is that everything is created under the power of God. God has his ways of thinking. Why did he create Satan? why did he make himself suffer as Jesus? Why did he create this and that and destroy this and that? That's beyond human understanding. I have heard that the simple answer is that God wants his creation to glorify him. However, the depth of what his intention is not so easily to be understood. In other words, if we understand why and how everything God does, we will be called god. answer to q1: Simple answer, God wants to use Satan as a testing program to Job. Why? only God knows. Just like people ask why so many innocent people died in tsunami in Indonesia. It's beyond our understanding.. Is it act of God or act of Nature of act of Satan??? As a matter of fact, if you look at the whole picture, everything is act of God, but if you look at the smaller picture, maybe God let Satan do his thing again... A2. Here is example. A programmer creates a program that produce random number. He is a creator. He knows inside out of what's going on in the program. The number will keep coming out according to his calculation. He can stop the program anytime. But he chooses to let it run until he decides to stop it. We human are like the player in the program. We can choose certain random numbers, but we choose the - negative numbers, the Programmer or Creator will somehow design to unplug the game and make it "game over". Of course, our lives are in controlled by God no matter how. God created us and wants us to glorify his creation. Why? because is God. Again, if we think about the in-depth question of why. It's really hard to understand why God did all those.... However, the focus is not to understand the intention before God, but to focus our lives like we are the players, we are focusing the game, but not how the programmer makes the game. It's really beyond our understanding. |
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