(April 12, 2014 at 10:05 pm)professor Wrote: They will be here during the Millennium when Satan and his minions will have been stuffed in the pit for that duration of time.This implies that without demons to tempt us, humanity would be free of sin. God could have saved everyone all of this suffering (and whatever suffering is to come, for those who are sent to hell) by removing Satan right at the start, before he could poison humanity with temptation.
They will have been quite un-tempted by the devil for a thousand years.
Or perhaps setting Satan loose on humanity was the plan? See how many humans would cross some arbitrary threshold that Jesus' death could not redeem (based on what must be some very complicated rules and formulas) and then pull the plug on the experiment and congratulate the winners.
This stuff really starts to come apart at the seams anytime you just read it as it is written and think about it for a bit.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
