[GCFL-discuss] Let there be Satan...

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

Satan exists because of free will.  God didn't want a
bunch of robots.  He wants people that WANT to love him,
not have to.

- JP

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 07:05:38PM -0600, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List wrote:
> That little afterblurb answers one of the hardest theological questions I
> have struggled with.
> 
> If God created a perfect world, how could anything so imperfect as Satan
> creep into it?
> 
> If God knew what was going to happen,
> 
> a) why didn't God stop it before the damage was done?
> 
> b) why did God go ahead and create such a tragic world anyway?
> 
> And if God is omnipotent, why does God allow Satan to exist?
> 
> But now I know: God created Satan so we wouldn't blame God for everything
> we don't personally like, appreciate, or really want to happen.
> 
> That makes sense.
> 
> Siarlys
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