God loves mankind so much, God fights for our souls every day. Satan and God are in constant battle …show more content…
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? (Philip A. Pecorino, 2000) I do not agree with this theory for the simple fact that God created the heavens and the Earth and he knew it was good. After God created this perfect existence with man and woman to prosper,” God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the sixth day.” (Version) God made man in his image and wanted to give man every possible advantage. Thus blessing man with free will. Free will as we have seen throughout history, often creates evil towards our fellow man. This is the center of the controversy of …show more content…
Yet we choose to sin against God. We tend to take easier or worldlier paths in life. When we make the evil choice, this deeply offends God. In the book of Job we learned about suffering. God and Satan are in a constant war. Satan envies the love mankind reveres for God and struggles greatly to be worshipped. Satan ultimate objective is to be worshipped as God. When Humans experience pain and suffering, it is Satan’s deepest desire for that person to denounce God. Satan desires humans to hate God in our hearts, for the evil we are made to endure. Satan will try to hoax Humans in thinking God allows evil. Satan tries any way to infect our hearts with evil. Satan will even confuse man to commit self-inflicted suffering. An example of self-inflicted suffering can be seen in someone who is morbidly obese. With obesity this person can suffer both mentally and physically. This person can blame God and ask to be healed, at the same time be glutinous and slothful. When this person loses all hope In God, Satan wins. The following is from the Book of Job, I like it’s meaning and strong devotion to God he has after he is made to suffer. “I know that you [God] can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. . . . I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now