What is greater than God, more evil than the devil and poor people have it but rich people need it?
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nothing\n\nas far as your riddle goes, it has been posted on yahoo answers at least a dozen times....
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"Life without God or his goodness is hell"\n\nEven if people are not in relationship with God,he is still affecting them. He holds back evil and darkness to a degree that we don't even know about. In Hell, God's power is given way to the Enemies ways. He relinquishes His power to the Prince of Darkness. We all have a choice as to where we want to spend our everlasting life -- we get to choose our "address" of either Heaven in the Kingdom of God or in Hell with the Prince of Darkness.
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God IS the 'higher power'! PRAISE GOD!!! :) He saved me!!\n\n:)
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There is nothing greater than God.
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Actually, this is of great debate. Some people say that human nature is good, possibly because of our tendency toward community and moral universalism (which is a debate among a few also). However, some people also say it is human nature to be evil and that is exploited in modern society with the loss of God as a societal focal point.  I actually believe that as humans, we are neutral because we have the ability to do great things on both sides of the spectrum.\n\nHowever, I noticed that you're comparing sins, murder and criminality (like stealing and lying) and saying stealing to live is not a sin. I agree with you! But the problem is that we live in a society built on capitalism, which demands that goods are made cheaply and sold for great profit. Workers are exploited, and there's a large mass of poor people to support the system. Capitalism cannot work any other way. It's not necessarily the rich people's fault.\n\nThe real problem is what we are taught growing up.  Everyone is told that if only they work hard enough, they all can earn lots of money and be happy, the American Dream to be middle class and middle management, if not higher. First of all, money doesn't bring happiness. And second of all, capitalism cannot function with a lot of people being more than the "poor" level, so people are forced to live in situations where they don't have enough food or money to pay rent. Surviving is not sinning.\n\nThat was addressing criminality as a sin part. Now you ask why god gave us evil. We, as people, are like the world and are neutral. The world creates many natural disasters which destroy and kill. This is part of its cycle. God is our guiding influence toward good, but since people are capable of evil and have free will, no one can stop someone from choosing destruction if that's their ultimate choice (what they would choose beyond others' talking to them, etc.)  Simply, God did not introduce evil. God introduced free will, which ran the risk of evil even though great things were possible through good. It was a risk factor and we have to learn through society to moderate those that are not choosing the best options, and this society does not best facilitate that.\n\nEDIT: And to respond to those that say evil is from Satan. The Bible stories are just that, stories to explain to ancient people why things are the way they are in the world.\n\nI do not believe in Satan. I believe it is a philosophical argument we examined from Anselm (a Christian philosopher if you must know.)  God is eternal, infinite, incorruptible. The only one.  God is also pure good. Evil is the absence of good, so everything has differing degrees of good and evil in them. Satan represents the entire lack of good, pure evil. But if Satan is pure evil, he is incorruptible (cannot be made more evil), but the only incorruptible thing, is God. So Satan does not exist at all because Satan cannot be the same as God.\n\nSatan does not tempt people to sin, people choose it of their own free will.
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Morality is basically a set of rules, or a code of conduct that enables civilized people to live together in a society.\nIt has nothing to do with a 'higher power' but primitive people would be unlikely to accept rules and regulations dictated by just another person, so god was invented to keep a journal of who's doing what to whom.
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nothing. nothing is greater then god. The poor have nothing. The rich (obviously) want nothing.
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We won't know the answer to that one until we can get the answer to why God gives to some , so they are rich and others are poor.............somethings are just not quite so easy to figure out...........
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evil in essence does not exist.\nevil is merely the state of being without good
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God gives and takes anything from us - yes even money.  The rich are consistantly being tested by God to see how much they share.  The poor are tested by god to see whether they lose any faith in him.  Test are not only with wealth but also ( across the board - rich or poor ) with health.  How much faith does one have in God when sick.  How much have you fogotton God when you were cured from sickness.
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God\nThe better God for you is the God you Seek at the moment according to your own experiences and needs.\nonce you are done seeking the question won't even be there anymore.
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For one thing, the root of all evil is the love of money, not money itself. There are those that believe the seed of evil (as well as good and neutral) is the "self". The rest is way to deep.
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No one has power solely by their own hand.God allows some to have power but in an earth sense some although are confidants of the dark one and achieve power through wasting their years away pondering on how to become more powerful.This also is true with the rich they are never content with what they have they must always maintain a step ahead of what was once thought to be suitable in their gain.The fact is power is only obtain by to ways on this earth God or satan.I desire neither because as one answered there is great responsiblity attached to it.
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I'd rather help the poor, because generally, the rich tend to be corrupted by their wealth(it's happens easily, even to the best of us.)The poor, by default, tend to know what REALLY matters in life.
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People need something to give them 'hope' in life. Without any forms of demanding religion, the entire human culture would be in a state of chaos with no 'moral rights'.
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Well according to the Bible, the devil was an Angel who was caste out of Heaven by God - so this being the case the Devil can not be equal to God as God created him.
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nothing is more powerful than God\nnothing is more evil than the devil\npoor people have nothing\nrich people need nothing\nif you eat nothing you will die.