Posted 06 March 2010 - 02:29 PM
maybe you may find this interesting .
Greetings: Recently we were asked, "Did God (Yahweh) create Satan, the Devil? And if so, how do you explain why this so-called God of Love, would create such an evil being?" The answers to these simple questions, need not be complex. Yahweh clearly states He created the universe and all things that are in it - everything! Everything, obviously includes the original creation of the being that we now refer to as Satan. But before we look into Satan's creation, perhaps it would help to look into our very own creation. Oh we may struggle with the concept of being the temporal child of a man and a woman - our parents, but the gift of life, together with the gift of mind-power that we all possess, are from Yahweh, and Yahweh alone. No man or no woman or no two of them together can create "life" in any form, without conceding that it is born of the life that has been first gifted to them by Yahweh. Did you ever wonder why you were given free-will? Of all Yahweh's earthly creations, only man has free-will. Man is the only created thing on this planet with the freedom to choose his course of action! No plant, or no insect, or no animal species on this earth is capable of making decisions. Apple trees do not decide to bare peaches, grass does not choose to be pink, bees do not choose to make milk, bird do not choose to stop migrating, nor do bears decide to give up on hibernating. They simple follow their programmed instincts. No choices allowed. Man on the other hand, gets to choose. He chooses where to live, what to wear, what to eat, when to sleep, how to entertain himself, etc. In fact, man is hardly capable to live at all, without making choices. Thank Yahweh for our free will to make them for ourselves! Could you imagine what living would be like, if while you possessed free-will, someone else made all of your choices? Yahweh also created a book of instructions, sort of an operator's manual for the human being, called the Bible. He gave us a lot of examples of what would happen when we made good, or right decisions, plus many examples of what would happen if we made bad, or wrong decisions. He even graciously provided us a simple set of rules that would help us define what was right and what was wrong, and He codified these rules in His Ten Commandments as He saw fit to set them forth within His Book of the Covenant. So here we have a man, made by Yahweh, with the gift of free choice built right in, together with the potential to understand and follow Yahweh's rules, if he so chooses. Yahweh did indeed give us all free will. He does not force us to follow His rules, He simply sets them forth for us to understand and gives us the freedom to choose whether or not we agree with Him. He also defines someone that decides of his own free will to ignore His advice, as a sinner. But Yahweh did not make the sinner. He simply made a man with free will, that chose to become a sinner by not following Yahweh's rules. It is in fact, Yahweh's planned course of action for all of us to sin, thus all of us will be sinners and learn from our mistakes. He also gave that same man, the ability to recognize his mistakes together with the free will repent, change his ways and be forgiven - if he so chooses. Yahweh forces no man to repent or seek His forgiveness. He simply explained how and why He offered this "salvation" to us in His Bible, so we would be fully informed about making that decision. Once upon an earlier time, Yahweh made angels and among them He made Archangels, one of whom was Lucifer. Yahweh explains to us in His operator's manual how Lucifer was a resplendent being, with marvellous intellect and extraordinary musical talent. Yahweh also gave Lucifer free will. Yahweh also explained what was right and what was wrong to Lucifer, just like he did for mankind. Lucifer, like many (in fact all) men and women, originally chose to oppose Yahweh's explanation of what was right and in fact, he (Lucifer) attempted to prove that Yahweh was wrong! Lucifer became determined by habit of making poor or wrong choices, that he himself should rise up to be a power even greater than the power that created him! Yahweh made a spectacular Archangel named Lucifer and Yahweh blessed Lucifer with His gift of free-will. Lucifer chose to make some serious mistakes, and in spite of Yahweh's gracious attempts to stop him, he determined to oppose Yahweh, even having been fully informed of the consequences. Lucifer made choices that resulted in him becoming "Satan", the Adversary, or Devil, just like man makes choices that result in his becoming a sinner. With free will comes responsibility. We choose our own course of action and we accept full responsibility for the consequences (well at least we should). Lucifer chose his own course of action, and Lucifer must accept responsibility for the consequences. Yahweh has explained all of this to us for more than one reason. Yes it is for our benefit in terms of learning from our mistakes, but it is more that we learn from Lucifer's mistakes as well. Lucifer was granted great privileges and powers as an Archangel; abilities and powers that he still possesses because Yahweh chose not to take them away from him. Yahweh chose instead, to fully inform us of the now Satan's super abilities, powers and influences and told us that we would now have to choose whether or not we would be influenced by these Satanic temptations. Yahweh did not create evil men. Men that Yahweh created make evil choices. Yahweh did not create an evil Devil. An extraordinary Archangel that Yahweh created made evil choices. Yahweh did not, nor does He create wars, famines, droughts, murders, adulteries, or any other evil happening on this earth. Men make evil choices, sometimes influenced by Satan's whims to do all of these evil things, and unfortunately for those same men, they must accept full responsibility for their actions - not try and pawn off the responsibility by saying "it's God's fault" or "why does God allow it". Yahweh did not make the evil choices that resulted in these evil and unhappy events - men made those choices! But Yahweh is all forgiving, and it will come to pass that almost all of His children will repent and find His forgiveness. It may happen for a few in this lifetime, for many during the "Great Tribulation", for many more during the "Millennium", and for even more during the "Great White Throne Judgement " period to follow. Have a most wonderfully blessed day!
21ST CENTURY NEW YORK STATE OF MIND ."REST IN PEACE NIGHT OWL TOM"
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