God, all good and almighty, and evil, for Arminians.

[GoldenKingGaze]

A thread about why evil exists today, before Christ's return. Why Satan exists, and his range of powers and cohorts. Why Jesus died on a cross, to face evil. Why He looked foolish. All this while God is almighty and all good. Also all knowing, knowing the end of the world from the beginning... The wisest ones.

This thread avoids the views of those who believe in predestiny and God choosing some to become evil and be lost.

So why does God seem to step back from stopping evils? Why is Satan so protracted in his reign? Why did Jesus have to die on a cross to defeat evil? Why did He undergo scarring and a bruised heel?

Why are people in Hell for eternity? Why does God lose souls? Why do bad things happen to good people?

Why did Adam fall in the first place?

Why is it that the world evangelism progresses so slowly?

I think God to a large extent loves our free will condition and has made it so interventions, at least on Earth are minimal, unless we ask and don't doubt. He wants a bride not a slave.

I think in creating Lucifer, God much valued the good of free will, and had to create a source of evil, because there was no way to create a near infinite number of free willing creatures without eventual rebellion. And Lucifer was the minimal and completely endable one. God knowing an infinite number of flow charts, of beings good and evil, when he chose to make some for real. So Lucifer, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Adam and of course Jesus.

To what extent if any is there a purpose for evil?

 

[Original Happy Camper]

A thread about why evil exists today, before Christ's return. Why Satan exists, and his range of powers and cohorts. Why Jesus died on a cross, to face evil. Why He looked foolish. All this while God is almighty and all good. Also all knowing, knowing the end of the world from the beginning... The wisest ones.

This thread avoids the views of those who believe in predestiny and God choosing some to become evil and be lost.

So why does God seem to step back from stopping evils? Why is Satan so protracted in his reign? Why did Jesus have to die on a cross to defeat evil? Why did He undergo scarring and a bruised heel?

Why are people in Hell for eternity? Why does God lose souls? Why do bad things happen to good people?

Why did Adam fall in the first place?

Why is it that the world evangelism progresses so slowly?

I think God to a large extent loves our free will condition and has made it so interventions, at least on Earth are minimal, unless we ask and don't doubt. He wants a bride not a slave.

I think in creating Lucifer, God much valued the good of free will, and had to create a source of evil, because there was no way to create a near infinite number of free willing creatures without eventual rebellion. And Lucifer was the minimal and completely endable one. God knowing an infinite number of flow charts, of beings good and evil, when he chose to make some for real. So Lucifer, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Adam and of course Jesus.

To what extent if any is there a purpose for evil?

"of course Jesus"

are you stating that JESUS is a created being?

 

[GoldenKingGaze]

Jesus is the self existent Father of eternity, who came to us as we now celebrate, as a child, then also having, a human spirit, soul and body and a nature like ours of getting tired...

"of course Jesus"

are you stating that JESUS is a created being?