One of my big reasons on why I left the religon was when I saw how many people God killed in the Old Testament (the part that really gets to me is when he killed the frist born of Eygpt) I thought It was vary hypocritcal of him, that he tell us to forgive and love our enemys when he could not do the same. (I dont care if the hebrews were slaves back then, I do not belive in the killing of Childerin, for any reason)
But now I just relized something, If he is okeay with killing for his people and really loves us, how come he never killed Satan?
He okeay with killing childerin but not the fallen angel who caused all the problems in the frist place and is still trying to get to us?
I cound never answer these qustions and I need answers.
So why?
God gave angels and man free will. satan has free will and sinned and man sinned. Destroying satan would not solve the worlds problems as people will still sin. When I sin, I can assure you, I do so cause I want to, not because satan is making me sin. Same as any man, they freely sin, satan can't force someone to sin, unless in the case of demon possession, which I know nothing about, if a demon enters a man, I've no clue if a demon could cause a person to sin or if that one possessed willingly gives over to the demon, no clue on that one.
It's a shame that you say you lost faith over the ot where God orders babies killed, because you must have missed that God is perfect, righteous, good, Holy, never does evil, is pure, etc.
Had you realized those truths, you would realize that for whatever reason God did some of the things done in the Old Testament are for reasons God needed to do so, which we don't know the reasons, as often some judgements are not explained why. If you think God doesn't care or love every individual on the earth you're wrong.
So when God passed judgements we don't know the mind of God. Though sometimes He explains and sometimes He does not explain. But when He has wrath and judges and death occurs, a person who has faith in God, who can't quite grasp the why's still has faith in God as we know what I listed
God is perfect, righteous, good, Holy, never does evil, is pure, and much much more
and we don't doubt God's qualities that we know, no matter what they are.
We live by faith.
He is the creator and He knows the why's of things. The bible is not exhaustive nor do we know if we will ever be told many things, though surely we may.
Why he never destroyed satan isn't spoken, but since man sins, the world wouldn't change very much, as people kill, steal, destroy, and many other heinous things men do of their own free will.
satan isn't causing all the problems in the first place as you wrote. As since God has determined not to destroy satan there is a reason, we don't know, but we know satans end.
But it's a good question, never thought of it.
If you focus on Christ who is our salvation for those who believe in Him, your whole world will change, as well as your take on God and though we all wrestle with difficult or sometimes easy passages, when one has faith in Christ, we know God, and know He is good, and never does evil.
We live by faith.
