If Satan is the source of so much evil in the world

Mar 3, 2019 13:54:18 GMT Vegas said:

Mar 3, 2019 12:52:15 GMT Isapop said:

I never even implied that mankind reached it technical zenith back then.  It is your notion that God, since Eden, decided to sit back and let man just do his thing without exerting his influence is a pure, unbiblical crock.

And I never even implied that God decided to sit back and let man just do his thing without ever exerting some influence... ever.


The Bible has Him doing stuff in it... Mostly, to establish His right to be Universal Sovereign.. and to - already stated, ya illiterate illiterate - protect the Messianic bloodline.



You did, however say "if any question like that was raised, it got answered way back then"... and I'm just pointing out to you that they really weren't...  as Man has yet to achieve his highest potential for attempting to answer the question of whether or not we are better off without God.

Genesis 11:1-9 proves you wrong.  God is NOT determined to see that man is left alone to reach his potential.  God actually expresses alarm that man might do so: v6 " The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them."

And then God takes action to permanently cripple man's future attempts at progress: "7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” 8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth."

Go ahead and stick with your "God allows evil because since Eden he has been practicing a 'hands off' policy towards man to prove (to somebody?) that his way is best."  Just don't pretend the Bible actually gives any support to that.