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Despite the fact that I am for anyone being any way they wish as long as it is not pushed on someone else, I'm going to anser these because I really doubt that dixie could.
As best as I can tell from my studies it's a free choice thing. A couple of religions hold that there are a finite number of souls (although a staggeringly high number for our little minds) and He has to wait till everyone has had a chance to "choose their way" so to speak. This is one of the harder questions to answer since by definition God's thinking is a little above ours.
Actually, Lucifer, AKA Morningstar, was one of the first and highest ranked angels, so lowly is not an accurate description. Secondly, while angles (who are NOT humans after they get to heaven. They are separate creatures altogether) do have abilities that humans do not, creation is not one of them, at least not in the sense you are ascribing. Now Lucifer can take an existing place and modify it. Some curtains here, a throw rug there, torture chamber off the back.... But that brings us to the third point. Hell is a recent creation based upon the fiery pit that Satan and the non-saved souls will be ultimately destroyed in at the end of the 1000 years that follows the Armageddon war. There is a holding place for that 1000 years, but the modren image of hell is derived from that final pit
Again Satan does not have creating powers, but you'd be amazed at what can be manipulated and put together in new ways. Is what Satan supposedly doing encouraging people to be gay? Maybe he is whispering in their minds from their birth to be attracted to their gender. Maybe he is forcing certain genes to develop into opposite of the body's gender (there are studies that show that male gays have brain structures more closely related to female brains than straight male brains and vice versa). BUt he doesn't just create gay people.
Now I will say that I find people who gay bash and worse try to make laws against homosexuality and then try to claim to be Christians to be highly hypocritical. Jesus didn't go around and try to have laws asserted against those he claimed were sinners. He didn't go around bashing people and harassing them. He hung out with them. He said what he had to say and then he buddied around. He even STOPPED people from causing harm to sinners (the prostitute; "Let he who is without sin..."). So any Christian who is frothing at the mouth about gays is not following Christ's example.
If God's so powerful - the creator of the universe and the infinite beyond - why doesn't he just destroy Satan straight out? Why does he have to wait until some mythical, theoretical date in the future? What's he waiting for exactly?
As best as I can tell from my studies it's a free choice thing. A couple of religions hold that there are a finite number of souls (although a staggeringly high number for our little minds) and He has to wait till everyone has had a chance to "choose their way" so to speak. This is one of the harder questions to answer since by definition God's thinking is a little above ours.
Wasn't satan just a lowly angel at one point? What makes Lucifer so special that he can defy god and get away with it? Can any angel fall from heaven and create an alternate place (like hell) where people can go when they die?
Actually, Lucifer, AKA Morningstar, was one of the first and highest ranked angels, so lowly is not an accurate description. Secondly, while angles (who are NOT humans after they get to heaven. They are separate creatures altogether) do have abilities that humans do not, creation is not one of them, at least not in the sense you are ascribing. Now Lucifer can take an existing place and modify it. Some curtains here, a throw rug there, torture chamber off the back.... But that brings us to the third point. Hell is a recent creation based upon the fiery pit that Satan and the non-saved souls will be ultimately destroyed in at the end of the 1000 years that follows the Armageddon war. There is a holding place for that 1000 years, but the modren image of hell is derived from that final pit
Why did God - the original creator - give creating powers to Satan? (such as the powers to create gay people so they can have gay sex with each other)
Again Satan does not have creating powers, but you'd be amazed at what can be manipulated and put together in new ways. Is what Satan supposedly doing encouraging people to be gay? Maybe he is whispering in their minds from their birth to be attracted to their gender. Maybe he is forcing certain genes to develop into opposite of the body's gender (there are studies that show that male gays have brain structures more closely related to female brains than straight male brains and vice versa). BUt he doesn't just create gay people.
Now I will say that I find people who gay bash and worse try to make laws against homosexuality and then try to claim to be Christians to be highly hypocritical. Jesus didn't go around and try to have laws asserted against those he claimed were sinners. He didn't go around bashing people and harassing them. He hung out with them. He said what he had to say and then he buddied around. He even STOPPED people from causing harm to sinners (the prostitute; "Let he who is without sin..."). So any Christian who is frothing at the mouth about gays is not following Christ's example.