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Wow so many questions.

First its is very important to answer all of your bible questions from the bible and not from any personal ideas. Anyone answering bible questions from their own "feeling" "i feel this, or that" is telling you what they think and not what God himself said through his word the bible. I only say that b/c based on your question it seems like you have received those types of answers before.

So first why get answers from the bible? (2 Timothy 3:16-17) 16 All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.

How can God create an imperfect world? Simple answer he didn't. He created a perfect world which was ruined by human through the use of their free will and the decisions they made. Imagine the only car you had ever seen was a wrecked car in a junk yard. You might think "why would anyone make this thing. Its a wreck and so useless". Then later you find out that the car didn't look anything like that when it was created and when it was new it was very useful until a person came along and misused it by ramming it into a tree. You can hardly blame the designer of the car because it was possible for someone to drastically misuse his creation.

Iron ore isn't good or bad. You can make a nail out of it to build a house or you can make a gun to kill your neighbor.

I suggest reading Genesis chapter 2 too understand what God "created". He made perfect people and a perfect world for them to live in. Even Satan who possessed the serpent in chapter 3 was created perfect. The Satan "chose" to become imperfect when he "chose" to try and mislead the first humans. Likewise Adam and Eve both "chose" to believe Satan who they had just meet over God who had been caring for them all their lives. The world we live in now is a result of those choices. --------Why would he create the world in the first place? Well consider this. Humans were created in God image. Since you can't see God but you can see people this is understood to mean that we were created with similarities like intelligent thought, imagination, and emotions. Now after creating Adam the first human God said "It is not good for the man to continue by himself" (Gen 2:18)

So if we are made in such a way to be similar to God and God said it is not good for a man to be by himself then clearly God didn't want to be by himself either. Consider the opening words of the bible...Gen 1:1 In [the] beginning God created the heavens and the earth. So how long was God completely alone before the created the universe? I dont know but it wouldn't have taken me long to get really lonely, now combine that with his unlimited power, intelligence, and imagination. Creation was inevitable.

If Satan punishes sinners in hell, why is he considered evil? First Satan doesn't punish sinner. There is no scripture anywhere in the bible that says Satan punishes evil doer. The idea of Satan punishing people in hell is based on word of mouth misconceptions of several scriptures and commonly perpetuated by artist rendering in Saturday morning cartoons. So for a scripture read the whole bible its not in there anywhere.

Consider this.. (Romans 6:23) 23 For the wages sin pays is death. . .

(Romans 6:7) 7 For he who has died has been acquitted from [his] sin. There are dozens more scriptures which support this but even from these two you can see that the punishment for sinning is death. It doesn't say the punishment for sin is death AND ETERNAL TORTURE UNDER THE THUMB OF SATAN HIMSELF!!!

The traditional Americanized ideals about Hell are complete fictions based only somewhat in anything the bible actually says. But hey. It sure does make a good story to tell the congregations right before you pass the collection plate. At least so long as nobody asks to see any supporting scriptures.

Now as for why Satan is evil.. (John 8:42-47) read all that. Jesus here points out that Satan was the original sinner and the father of the lie the first sin. He lied when the told Eve that she wouldn't die if she eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad and that she would become like God. Now Eve sinned herself for believing him over God who had always taken care of her and for breaking his one rule for her and Eating from the forbidden tree but Satan was the first.

Shouldn't he be considered an executor of justice?

I think this was answered above. He can't be an executor of justice because nowhere in the bible does it suggest he fulfills anything resembling that role. Everything he does is based on hatred and rage. (Revelation 12:12) . . .Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to YOU, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time.

Why can't an all-powerful and all-loving God save good people from going to Hell? Literally translated "hell" means the common grave of all mankind. Basically a hole in the ground where you bury someone.

Earlier we discussed the fact that the "wage of sin is death". Since our first father Adam had sinned before having children sin is passed on to all of the human race by him. (Romans 5:12) 12 That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned. . .

So we are all subject to pay for that sin with our lives because while God is merciful (Exodus 34:7) . . .by no means will he give exemption from punishment, bringing punishment for the error . . .

This may seem harsh but imagine having a child you love dearly. What if you never punished them? They would be spoiled rotten. Imagine that you tell your child to clean their room but they refuse. You might rightly punish them by grounding them from playing video games for the day. Now if they immediately capitulate and go clean their rooms it may be merciful for you to lift the sentence of grounding them but it wouldn't be justice. Eventually your child would learn that nothing you say has serious meaning unless you accompany it with a threat. Is that how you want your children to learn? Always having to be threatened with punishment before they will do the right thing? God balances justice and mercy perfectly. So while we may die for our sins we are promised the hope of a resurrection.

Why is belief in Jesus more important than being a good person? (John 17:3) 3 This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.

Simply "being a good person" can not bring you the prospect of everlasting life. An individual human has no means of living forever on their own. While being a "good person" without doing so out of

loyalty to God may well be commendable it would be very short lived if not for the everlasting life offered by those who believe in God and are "good people" because they understand and agree with his teachings on how to be a "good person" and they trust him to have their best interest in mind.

Remember Eve? Why did she eat from the forbidden fruit? She wanted to ...(Genesis 3:5) . . .be like God, KNOWING good and bad.

Effectively she wanted to be able to decide for herself what was right and what was wrong. A choice which neither she nor the rest of the human race was capable of making correctly.

Imagine telling your child to brush their teeth before bed every night. Now your child takes it upon themselves to decide that you must not know what you are talking about and they will just brush their teeth whenever they feel like it. Maybe they will decide on their own to brush every night. Or maybe they will only do it once a week. The choice shouldn't be up to them because they simply dont know what is best of them.

Likewise God created us. As our creator he knows what is best for us. He doesn't put rules in place to restrict our fun or creativity. He puts rules in place to help us help ourselves. (Isaiah 48:17) . . .your God, the One teaching you to benefit [yourself]. For example the ancient Israelites were given laws by God which among other things included basic sanitation. A concept which the world around them had no idea of the value of. Yet it kept Gods people clean and healthy.

Why is the Bible so full of sexist philosophies? I don't know for sure what you mean by this as you gave no scriptural example so I'll try to answer it best I can.

The advisory panel for America's National Council of churches has urged removal of "sexist" terms from the Bible. These include referring to Jesus as "HE" and referring to Jesus as "Son of God". They feel it would be more appropriate to substitute something like "Child of God" This is beyond ridiculous. Jesus was born on Earth as a male it is therefore appropriate to refer to him as a "Son" for no other reason. More than that God wrote the bible. If "God" didn't want Jesus or himself referred to as males then they wouldn't have been. (2 Timothy 3:16) All Scripture is inspired of God.

Now if you meant "sexist philosophies" as a reference to Men being head of a house hold and woman being subject to men. Consider this. When God created our first human parents Adam was created first. He spent unknown years being taught by God before Eve was created. He described his reasons for creating Eve (Genesis 2:18) . . .God went on to say: It is not good for the man to continue by himself. I am going to make a helper for him, as a complement of him.. It is clear from our design that God always intended to create a female of our species to go along with the male and because of his intelligence it was no accident that he happen to start with the male. So its easy to see that it was part of his original purpose that a Man would lead his family. That doesn't make him more important by any means its just his job in the family arrangement.

Thousands of years later Jesus reiterated this... (Ephesians 5:22-25) 22Let wives be in subjection to their husbands as to the Lord, 23 because a husband is head of his wife as the Christ also is head of the congregation, he being a savior of [this] body. 24 In fact, as the congregation is in subjection to the Christ, so let wives also be to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, continue loving YOUR wives, just as the Christ also loved the congregation and delivered up himself for it.

Now don't confuse the word "subjection" with the word "slave". Nowhere in Jesus dealings with woman did he EVER act or treat them as if they were not as good as men or treat them without respect. The fact that a wife is to be in "subjection" to her husband in no way means that he gives orders and she obeys them without question. It is the job of a wife in the family to help her husband accomplish his goal of caring for the entire family and NOT to satisfy his every selfish whim.

Notice the husbands responsibility here as well. He is to "love" his wife just as Christ "loved" the congregation" and delivered up himself for it. Now Jesus didn't just die for his congregation. He first spent years building and caring for the congregation. He served the congregation and took care of it. The congregation wasn't just there to satisfy Jesus whimsical desires any more than a wife should be for her husband.

So if this is considered a "sexist philosophies" i would suggest that a better understanding of what the bible actually says on the role of men and woman in a marriage and a christian congregation would be in order. Learn from the bible and therefore from God. Don't just listen to the misinterpretations of a few

people who twist scriptures they never understood to give a bias sexist impression of God. If after coming to an accurate understanding of the roles God set out for us you still do not agree with them or see the merit consider that God created us and knows what is best for us the same as a good parent knows when a child needs to brush their teeth or get some rest.

If at some point you think you know better than God just remember. So did Adam and Eve. Look where that got us.

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