If God is all Powerful
If Gos is all powerful why can't he just destroy satan? Why wait for the events in revalation to happen?
The reason why He doesn't just destroy Satan right now is because He is going to do it whenever His time is to come and defeat Satan. God could do it right now if He wanted to but He needs to fulfill the prophecies that are in the Bible to lead up to the event of defeating Satan.(All of the prophecies are fulfilled except the Christians need to be raptured) Also God's time is different from our time because God is focused on Heavenly Time. 1
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Would there be good without evil? Or would all thoughts and deeds be simply neutral? I'm not sure God wanted to be considered neutral - if I were him I'd have created evil and subsequently Satan too just so that everyone could see how wonderful I am in comparison. Then they would worship me and I'd satisfy my giant ego... What about the starving dying children I hear you ask? Ignore them - pray to me.... I order you. 1
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Would there be good without evil? Well, I believe that that depends on the occasion. Is saving from drowning intrinsically good, or is it good because someone else pushed them in? Yet if there was no pain, then love would feel boring, it makes it all the more richer. So yes, there is some argument that the world we live in is the best world we can live in, and was therefore created by a benevolent creator, yet this argument is shown to be wrong (by natural evil, for the simplest case). Or would all thoughts and deeds be simply neutral? Are they not already? Good and bad are human constructions, largely based off of temporary feelings, derived from chemicals released in our brains, rather than logic (that's not to say that good and evil isn't logical, but that understanding comes after a natural understanding of good and bad). 1
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