If One God, why so many denominations?, page-70

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09/09/19

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Originally posted by DBT9: ↑

More from Judaism;
''Passages in Tanach like Isaiah 45:7 and Deuteronomy 30:15 pose a monumental theological problem for Christians who maintain that God did not create Satan, the angel of evil. According to Christian doctrine, as you state in your question, Satan was the highest-ranking angel who, through his own act of spiritual defiance and outright disobedience, became the chief adversary and slanderer of God, and the embodiment of evil in this world. As you maintained in your question, God never created evil according Christian teachings; He is only the author of righteousness and perfection. Therefore, God could never create something as sinister as the devil himself. Rather, Satan’s unyielding wickedness is the result of his own spiritual rebellion.

Although this well-known Christian doctrine has much in common with the pagan Zoroastrian Persian dualism from which it spawned, it is completely alien to the teachings of the Jewish Scriptures. In fact, this Christian notion that Satan, in an act of outright defiance, ceased to function as God had intended him to, suggests that God created something imperfect or defective.

For the Jewish faith, Satan’s purpose in seducing man away from God poses no problem because Satan is only an agent of God. As a servant of the Almighty, Satan faithfully carries out the divine will of his Creator as he does in all his tasks.''

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DBT, Judaism is not alone in misrepresenting God. The apostle John made that clear.
(1 John 5:19) We know that we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.

The ''we'' John referred to were the genuine footstep followers of Jesus. All other organisations were serving Satan. It's the same today!
The obligation rests on each of to identify the one true religion.
Hint:
It will be bringing praise to the one true God, Jehovah.
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