A long time ago God gave satan the earth and all the planets to look after,this was when satan was with god at the time.all the plantets were closer to the sun at this time,and they all had life on them.but than satan rebeled aganist god.he wanted to be higher than god.God than there was war in heaven and satan was defeated.than there was a void.all the plantets were moved back to where they are now.than God had a plan to create a new earth.we all know the rest of the story.

Hi george I beleive that God will put things right and this medium told me that the world will never end because we keep evolving all the time and will go on doing this.

Love and God bless    love juditha

My understanding is that past humans, in their limited understanding of the nature of reality beyond the physical, originally thought God was responsible for all things. 

However, more than being praised for the good things in the world, God was being blamed for all of the negative things as well. 

Therefore Satan was created as a balance, allowing humans to dump all responsibility for the world's negativity upon this imaginary being. 

Of course, it seems God in this context is just as imaginary as Satan, just the opposite side of the coin- a being responsible for all good in the world. 

In reality, we are the responsible ones- not some larger than life character.  But we've been over this before...

Related to what Justin wrote, I believe there are different energy levels, and some levels are quite dark, and if one creates in such a way, one might connect to such a level.

I also immediately thought of the word scapegoat as I was writing my last post... It's exactly what Satan is.. and maybe, to some people, what God is as well.. I don't think everyone would be able to handle the fact that they themselves were responsible for every aspect of their life and not a 'higher being who dictates everything.'  It's a convenient belief anyway, especially when the chips are down.

Who is Satan. I don't know him, George.

love, blink

I am with you on this one, OOBD. Our experience of life may be interpreted as suffering, but God wants us to find happiness. The point of the Cruxifixion is the Resurrection; A Course in Miracles says the cross if is a meaningless symbol without the resurrection that follows. Was that not Christ's point, after all? Look what I can do, see what I can accomplish! This and more will you also do.

And could not a God just simply make us perfect just like that? What is the point of a God that punsihes us for Eternity for not performing perfectly, and make it our nature to never make it?

No-- My God is big enough and loving enough and forgiving enough for all of it, because God is ALL OF IT, even the dark parts, even what we have imagined as evil. We have imagined there is a war, and somehow God can lose....

All There Is is All There Is. I think God is All There Is, even the ring around the collar.....

The priest's job is to keep you coming back and donating, so that "someday" you will deserve blessings. Well, my dear friend Juditha, you are already blessed! You were created that way.......

Thomas

I believe that when we suffer we listen to false ideas our minds create. When we stop listening to false ideas we experience happiness, peace and love, and this is what God is about.

It seems that your belief in the idea that you are not wanted is creating that exact reality.  I had the same fear when I was younger, so I know that to change the way others look at you you must first change the way you look at yourself.  You must realize that you fit in perfectly with this world, you are meant to be here, and you are a wonderful and unique person and there is no reason why anyone would think negative things about you.  Even if you don't find these things to be true right now, if you begin to truly believe them you will find these beliefs manifesting in your life in a rather short time.  Instead of sending out fear to everyone and therefore attracting what you fear the most, the idea is to send out love, confidence, and appreciation for the amazing person you are and this will attract similar people into your life, and may even change the way the negative people in your life now think about you.

George-
God and Satan are concepts for our limited thinking. Each religion has it's own concept of what God is and what Satan is. Some persons believe that in order to have and understand "good" there must be "evil".  Human beings created many Gods, demi-gods ,demonds and devils. Our ultimante goal as humans on this particular planet is to grasp the concept of pure, unconditional love. You as a human may manifest a beautiful wonderful think (example: a rose) as evil. You will twist it in your mind until it is sinful to look at, think about, smell, etc. That same principal may be applied to a God. When you take the God out of God, you get Satan.
Another seneiro: Take the invasion of Normandy, France during WWII.
When the American solders were there, they were both God and Satan to the other human being involved. A wife in France will say "God has sent you to save us and my family. You are all angles of God for protecting us."
The wife of the German solder says "Satan has sent you to destroy us and to destroy my family. You are all the devil's angels who are destroying us."

The same holds true of any religious belief: If you don't do what the church says and its religious leaders, you are doing Satan's work and God will punish you.
If you  only do exactly what their bible and religious leaders tell you to do, then you get a gold star and God will love you.
Concepts created by humans.  Love to ALL --- Carol Ann

That's one of the oldest problems David. If God is almighty, all-knowing, all-good God won't allow any evil. This problem is a reason to turn away from an all too simple humanoid image of God.

Spooky