why doesn't God just kill the devil?

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Free will.

Free Willy

@lemondrop said
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God is the Creator. Lucifer who became Satan is a creature.

God would not completely execute His judgment upon the creature WITHOUT the coordination, harmony, and agreement of ANOTHER creature.

Therefore, there God will not unilaterally destroy Satan until the Creator has another creature to AGREE with this will of God and CO-EXECUTE God's will against the rebellious Satan.

He waits until the other creature - man is in completely harmony with the Divine will. Then the triangle of God, man, Satan is weighted on the victorious side of God and man. The final balance is against the rebel creature because the Creator and the agreeing creature are a team.

Though He could, God will not unilaterally destroy His rebel enemy without the agreement of a remnant of His creature humankind, brought under His kingdom.

@sonship said
God is the Creator. Lucifer who became Satan is a creature.

God would not completely execute His judgment upon the creature WITHOUT the coordination, harmony, and agreement of ANOTHER creature.

Therefore, there God will not unilaterally destroy Satan until the Creator has another creature to AGREE with this will of God and CO-EXECUTE God's will against the rebellious Sa ...[text shortened]... nemy without the agreement of a remnant of His creature humankind, brought under His kingdom.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
If a child wrote that as a work of fiction it would be graded as a D-

@Ghost-of-a-Duke

If a child wrote that as a work of fiction it would be graded as a D-

Now the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. (Rom. 16:20)

@sonship said
@Ghost-of-a-Duke

If a child wrote that as a work of fiction it would be graded as a D-

God created man to have two things - image for God, and exercise dominion for God. That is Genesis 1:26,27.

God wanted man His creature to express God and reign for God.
His plan never changed. He still would use man to express Himself and to ...[text shortened]... n - Satan. - crushed - underneath the feet of the triumphant and prevailing church of Christ.

@Ghost-of-a-Duke

What grade do you give your atheism which is clueless about everything ?

@sonship said
@Ghost-of-a-Duke

What grade do you give your atheism which is clueless about everything ?

@Ghost-of-a-Duke

Atheism is a beautiful thing. A mindset that rejects the ridiculous and fanciful and is not afraid to say 'I don't know.'

I give it a B+

Historically, atheism has generally been an integral part of communist ideology (see: Atheism and communism).

Communist regimes killed 60 million in the 20th century through genocide, according to Le Monde, more than 100 million people[2] according to The Black Book of Communism (Courtois, Stéphane, et al., 1997).[3] and according to Cleon Skousen[4] in his best-selling book The Naked Communist.[5]

It is estimated that in the past 100 years, governments under the banner of atheistic communism have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 and 259,432,000 human lives.[6] Dr. R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, is the scholar who first coined the term democide (death by government). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to communism is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.[7]

The Reign of Terror of the French Revolution established a state which was anti-Roman Catholicism/Christian in nature [8] (anti-clerical deism and anti-religious atheism during the Enlightenment played a significant role in the French Revolution[9][10]), with the official ideology being the Cult of Reason; during this time thousands of believers were suppressed and executed by the guillotine.[11] Although Communism is one of the most well-known cases of atheism's ties to mass murder, the French Revolution and subsequent Reign of Terror, inspired by the works of Diderot, Voltaire, Sade, and Rousseau, managed to commit similar persecutions and exterminations of religious people and promote secularism and militant atheism. Official numbers indicate that 300,000 Frenchmen died during Robespierre's Reign of Terror, 297,000 of which were of middle-class or low-class.[12] Of the amount murdered via the guillotine, only 8% had been of the aristocratic class, with over 30% being from the peasant class.[13]

@sonship said
@Ghost-of-a-Duke

Atheism is a beautiful thing. A mindset that rejects the ridiculous and fanciful and is not afraid to say 'I don't know.'

I give it a B+

Beautiful?

[quote] Historically, atheism has generally been an integral part of communist ideology (see: Atheism and communism).

Communist regimes killed 60 million in the 20th century t ...[text shortened]... Atheism and Mass Murder[/b]

https://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_Mass_Murder

Beautiful ?

@rajk999 said
I would guess that the Devil and other beings like him [if there are such things], are already immortal and cannot be killed. Hence the reason why God can only hold them or lock them down and torture them. This is the reason why God chased Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden. They could have eaten next from the tree of life and got immortality.

@Ghost-of-a-Duke

Historically, atheism has generally been an integral part of communist ideology (see: Atheism and communism).