Why God doesn't stop Satan?

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Satan was responsible for cheating of Adam and Eve which resulted in fall of human. He also is responsible for all crime around the Glob. So why God doesn’t stop him?
 
Satan was not responsible for Adam’s fall, it was Adam himself who was responsible. Satan gave him the idea, but it was up to Adam to decide.

When we do wrong at the suggestion of anyone, aren’t we the ones responsible for taking their advice? It may well be, that bad suggestions are wrong also, the monkey is on the back of the person who made that decision, and not the one who suggested it to us.

So the only ones who can really stop Satan is us, if we no longer listen to him.
 
I once read a quote that said that without evil, we would be forced to live in a twilight world at best. But we live in a world of good and evil (not good versus evil).
 
fred_conty said:
Satan was not responsible for Adam’s fall, it was Adam himself who was responsible. Satan gave him the idea, but it was up to Adam to decide.

When we do wrong at the suggestion of anyone, aren’t we the ones responsible for taking their advice? It may well be, that bad suggestions are wrong also, the monkey is on the back of the person who made that decision, and not the one who suggested it to us.

So the only ones who can really stop Satan is us, if we no longer listen to him.
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Beat me to it, but you said it better 😃
 
For us to all have free will, there needs to be an ‘alternative’ to God.

If Satan did not ‘fall’, who would have been there to tempt adam and eve, who would be in the world today, whispering temptations into our ears that draw us towards sin and away from God?

Satan is doing exactly the job he was created for.

Imo, the story of the fall was just something humans could relate to, to help us grasp a larger concept, but in reality, an angel would be intelligent enough to realize trying to overthrow heaven would be literally impossible, heck, even humans can recognize this.
 
Bahman said:
Satan was responsible for cheating of Adam and Eve which resulted in fall of human. He also is responsible for all crime around the Glob. So why God doesn’t stop him?
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God lets people choose. Free will, Bahman, free will.
 
Bahman said:
Satan was responsible for cheating of Adam and Eve which resulted in fall of human. He also is responsible for all crime around the Glob. So why God doesn’t stop him?
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Well…because God is wise and knows Satan from the inside out, because He created Satan.

If God stopped Satan now, then Satan can turn that into victory for himself, as he can say, only the more powerful God can stop him…so defeat would turn to victory.
 
I see 2 possible answers to the question has emerged so far.
  1. God already has stopped him, but we just have not yet fully seen it take place because we are in between, in time.
  2. God gives everyone free will. And by extension He allows us to experience the consequences of those free choices. Kind of like if you bite the hand that feeds you, you may experience what it is like to go hungry. If we didn’t experience the natural consequences of our decisions, both good and bad, then we don’t really have free will. Free will would be a kind of an illusion where the consequence for an action does not correspond to that action. If you never experienced bad consequences for a bad action then you may think there is no reason to believe such action is bad. If you jump off a cliff and nothing ever bad happens as a result you would not think it would be bad to jump off of it. This gives you a false sense of freedom where there are no bad consequences for any action, even if it is intrinsically evil. Having good consequences for good actions and bad consequences for bad actions restores the natural order of things.
 
Bahman said:
Satan was responsible for cheating of Adam and Eve which resulted in fall of human. He also is responsible for all crime around the Glob. So why God doesn’t stop him?
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Satan and his cohorts are “on a leash” so to speak. They can only tempt so much, and God stops them.
We are not tempted without a way out…which is using our free will and the grace that the Lord offers us to resist temptations.

So, we become stronger spiritually when we resist temptations and choose God.
 
Dorothy said:
Satan and his cohorts are “on a leash” so to speak. They can only tempt so much, and God stops them.
We are not tempted without a way out…which is using our free will and the grace that the Lord offers us to resist temptations.

So, we become stronger spiritually when we resist temptations and choose God.
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👍 true
 
Bahman said:
Satan was responsible for cheating of Adam and Eve which resulted in fall of human. He also is responsible for all crime around the Glob. So why God doesn’t stop him?
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It might be for the same reason that I keep a 14 foot Burmese python loose in my basement. I tell my small children not to go down there. But if they choose to disobey me they bring the dire consequences on themselves. But if they follow and honor my command no harm shall come to them.

I am the parent and they are the child. They are to obey my commands because I know what is best. It is out of love that I do what I do. And if they love me they will follow.

Hope this helps.
 
Sparkythedog said:
It might be for the same reason that I keep a 14 foot Burmese python loose in my basement. I tell my small children not to go down there. But if they choose to disobey me they bring the dire consequences on themselves. But if they follow and honor my command no harm shall come to them.

I am the parent and they are the child. They are to obey my commands because I know what is best. It is out of love that I do what I do. And if they love me they will follow.

Hope this helps.
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Great parenting skills. If everyone were more like you there wouldn’t be so many bad kids around.👍
 
If God loves perfectly, then he loves constantly, if God loves constantly, he can’t stop loving, even momentarily.

If God can’t stop loving even momentarily, God doesn’t take breaks from loving.

If God doesn’t take breaks from loving, and loving is defined with a freedom for the beloved -

Then the responsibility lies with the beloved to reflect the love of God.

A creation who does not reflect the love of God does not reduce or change the source of the responsibility. Even if there is no longer potential.

In the case of humans, if someone is breathing, there is still a potential to reflect the love of God.

Smile at the next person you see.

Take care,

Mike
 
Satan has been vanquished. It has been revealed and we know this as Catholics.
However, it is difficult to believe or appreciate, tied as we are to this world.
We will fully know it at least at the end, when we return to God the life He gives us.
There are consequences to sin and that is what we have to deal with in our Journey to God.
 
Sparkythedog said:
Why? What’s wrong with what I wrote?
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No doubt you have a python running free in your basement, symbolically speaking that is.

However, the message you may have been trying to communicate is a reaction to your interpretation of Genesis.
If that is the case and you want to understand it, you should ask plainly about what your issue is with it. Otherwise, what are you doing here?

The third understanding of your cryptic statement is that you have a reptile dangerous to your children in your house. I don’t believe you do, although maybe we should call in Dr Phil.
:tiphat: Puts on Dr Phil hat. “Very curious indeed.”

So, why don’t you fill us in on what you mean.
 
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