The Problem of Evil

[Bond]

Originally Posted by TheGame

And yes, god created satan and hell. There's MANY examples in the bible of him being angered by people who disrespect him and immorality. But that's the thing, he's god... you aren't. He has the right to make such decisions if you agree or disagree with it.

Speaking of hell and Satan... they've gone through an interesting transformation over the years. It seems to me as though hell kind of started out as a bargaining tool for peasants to fight for their king, and if they disobeyed they were going to hell. We've now moved away from that thought to a kinder and gentler hell. My prediction is that soon Christianity will move away completely from the concept of hell. The same goes for Satan. More and more modern Christians are moving away from the idea of Satan and that Lucifer became Satan. It's natural for a religion's interpretation of the world around it to change overtime.

But in any case, the best defense for the existence of Satan I have read is C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters.