Why would God allow Satan to tortue his most loyal follower?
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What is the first Commandment? Thou shalt have no other gods beside Me.\nIf God has commanded US to put God first, then God also must put Himself first! - Otherwise He would be breaking His own Commandment and God cannot deny Himself.\nSatan was making an accusation that the only reason Job (or anyone else) followed God is because of the good things God gave them. (i.e. selfish motivation is the only reason to follow God.)\nAfter God had vindicated His own good Name to Satan, (and to Job's friends, who had spoken falsly about God's character), God not only restored Job's possessions, He DOUBLED them.\nIf God had put this man's comfort above His own good Name, then God Himself would have been guilty of idolotry - something that can never happen!\nJob's three friends were the original humanists - They thought that God existed for the sole purpose of humanity, not the other way around.\nI have seen a lot of answers on here that reflect the sayings of Job's three friends - I would be VERY CAREFUL about disparaging the Character of God.
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Our GOD asks us to obey him through the following of his rules ,to go to paradise and to  avoid the hell,but I want to tell you that there is a few peoples loved God deeply and forgot the fear.The fear comes when the Devil try to prevent one from obey his God and if so the hell is the fate.
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you are posing the same idea that Lucifer did to Eve. That God had some evil intent in His edict. Why or why not eat of the tree is not the issue. God could have just as well of said "Do not pee where the grass does not grow" The real issue is whether to obey God or not. The exercise of free will as according to Gods plan was initiated here so that after the full consequence of self interest is evident and the world is impacted as it has been God could then show that the exercise of the will by choosing to Love God through Christ would be possible, to the intent that the manifold wisdom of God might be known by the church to the principalities and powers in heavenly places.
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i think satan prefers we dont believe in him. the bible warns us about satan. that he comes to kill, steal, and destroy. that  he is the accuser of the brethern and the father of lies. the bible tells us to beware of his wickedness and schemes and to put on the full armor of God so we can stand in the day of battle. if we do not acknowledge satan then we can not beware of these things or know how to fight against his schemes. satan wants people to have their heads in the sand so to speak. satan is sneaky and a cheater that will do whatever it takes to kill, steal and destroy. but he was help up in public ridicule at the cross of calvary. satan knows his days are numbered. thank you jesus!
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God had created us with "desire" , it belongs to the spiritual world.\nThis is the "desire" which will lead us towards good or evil.  It needs to be educated with religion so as to refrain it from doing evil.  As we all know the Satan will be ever ready to mislead and seduce our desire to follow their evil act against the God.  It is God's intention as to set trial on each individual as how faithful they are.  This is our choice as to choose to be faithful to the God or to follow the evil, as all our soul will return to where it belongs, we have no way to run.  The choice of Heaven or Hell is solely in our own hand, The "desire" in us to believe or not and to follow either Good or Evil.
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If I understand you correctly, you want to know why Satan would choose to blow his citizenship in heaven?\n\nI think pride blinded him.  He didn't know about hell.  Hell wasn't a reality until the first betrayal so far as I know.
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God doesn't follow his own teachings.  It is lust, and greed.  His first commandment shows that he would be envious if you worshiped anyone else.  He also killed babies in Egypt breaking his thou shall not kill commandment.  He also broke his commandment of not coveting your neighbors wife when he knocked up Mary.  If God went by his own rules, he'd be in hell!
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Satan offers only 3 temptations, the same 3 he offered Eve &\nJesus. The lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh & the pride of life. He offers this to people to get them focused on anything but Jesus. He can't claim your soul, he leads you astray, and you miss the opportunity to Choose Christ & be saved. All unsaved people are destined to hell, the same as Satan.
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Because it is not necessarily God's will. He created us all and gave us all free will. Also, Satan is the one who is in charge of the bad things that are happening to us all! But, I think that God can(and does) use some bad things that happen to us and he turns them into a test...I think that it is mostly a test of faith. Hope this helps!
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no way. he refused all the devil asked him Jesus knew he had power over satan. he paid the price of sin that God demanded   the blood of a pure sacrifice.
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There is most definitely a spiritual warfare going on around us. Everywhere. Everyday. The battle invovles Satan and his fallen angels versus God and His angels. We just can't see it. The battle is over our very souls. The devil is out to destroy our souls--so that we the creatures that God loves will end up in hell with him fo all eternity. But God who is truely a loving God will fight for our souls. But ultimately, the choice comes down to each individual soul--to choose to follow Christ or to give in to Satan and his demons. In spite of all Satan's efforts to defy God, God will come out as the Champion--though some souls will sadly be lost forever. God is in control, and as long as a person truely trusts and believes in Him, they have nothing to fear from this spiritual battle. In fact in doing so, that personis cotributing to Satans final defeat
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You've stated just a few reasons why I ended up asking the question, "Is it possible that the Christian God and the Muslim God(Yahweh and Allah) are the same entity as Satan? The character flaws exhibited by the religious "good gods" can be lined up point for point with the understood character flaws of "Satan". One of the most sadistic stories I've ever read has got to be the story of God telling Abraham to sacrifice his own son and then, "Oh, sorry just testing". You don't get any more cruel or mind-controlling than that.
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I think no god will arrange and furthermore enjoy the killing of people.\nI think the god you are talking about is the one from the \nbible.   THAT GOD IS MADE UP  by the ones who wrote that book.\nIt is impossible that a god can can be so twisted !\nOr maybe the bible is a book about the devil....what do you think?!
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I agree with you. He must have made a deal with the devil!
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Satan wants War.\n\nHe wants to be like the Almighty God.
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God had a choice. he chose to send them to Hell
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No amount of me telling you what is and what not ain't gonna convince you,The fact that u r asking this question is because deep down you know u r wrong,The christian God as u put it, and satan r not equal and whomever came up with the idea you being taught against the bible with the bible is really cunning must be the devil himself,Let me tell you what my God give me that no demon in hell can give you peace.God treated lucifer unjust r u kidding me? God could have killed him he should have, but look around you all the wickedness thats happening the Devil is very well in charge.Do you know your lucifer talk to God see in Job when God said to him have u considered my son Job he said To God do u think job serve u for nothing meaning the omly reason y job serve God is because he was rich God said to him take all he has Job stayed true to God anyways your devil is gonna burn in hell along with anyone who serve him, you can prove God for yourself just talk to him.Say if u r really up there do something to let me know u r real