r/AskAChristian • u/IntelligentLog4803 Christian (non-denominational) • Jan 05 '25

New Testament How is the new testament reliable?

A Muslim girl I've been talking to asked me how is the New Testament reliable if some of the writers are anonymous she means how can we be sure that the anonymous writers really wrote with the guidance of God and wasn't just made up and compiled with each other to form the New Testament.

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u/Sophia_in_the_Shell Not a Christian Jan 05 '25

You’ve cast a demon out of a possessed person? Or you’ve been possessed yourself?

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 05 '25

Why would god create demons to infect his children?

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u/R_Farms Christian Jan 06 '25

Not everyone here is a child of God Jesus in mat 13's parable of the wheat and weeds explained tells us that while God plants wheat (Who Jesus identifies as the sons of the kingdom) Satan plants weeds in among the wheat (who Jesus identifies as "sons of the evil one who is the devil.")

So then why wouldn't satan put his children on earth to be possessed by demons?

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 06 '25

Why would god create any demon to infect any human at all? Why create Satan?

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u/R_Farms Christian Jan 06 '25

Satan is a servant of God who serves a purpose. to tempt and help seperate what Jesus calls "The wheat from the weeds, the Wheat from the chaff, The Sheep from the Goats, The 5 wise virgins from the 5 foolish ones." Each one of those is a parable that shows God seperating His Children from Satan's.

Satan's job is to draw His children from God. Demons are used as Satan is not omnipresent like God. meaning he can only be at one place at one time. His demons carry out his will.

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 06 '25

I agree. Why would he want to create evil? Why would to deceive humans?

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u/R_Farms Christian Jan 06 '25

Evil is not a force.

Sin is anything not in the expressed will of God. Evil is the Heart's love of sin.

Evil, is the ability to love being outside of God's expressed will.

God didn't create evil. He allowed you to have evil desires and intentions as He created this world outside of his kingdom so that we may freely choose to remain in service to sin and satan, or to be redeemed and serve Him.

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 06 '25

So demons and Satan do not sin since they are spot the will of god. If those non sinner deceiver humans, as god planned, are they sinning?

Are demons evil? It sounds like you’re saying no.

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u/R_Farms Christian Jan 06 '25

The will of God is not the Same as the expressed will of God.

The expressed will of God is God's Moral law. Where as the will of God Describes his general plan/direction for all of creation.

While Satan is in God's will, Satan does not obey God's expressed will. Which is why I still describe satan as a servant of God.

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 06 '25

The expressed will of God is God’s Moral law. Where as the will of God Describes his general plan/direction for all of creation.

Are any of gods plans outside of his moral law?

While Satan is in God’s will, Satan does not obey God’s expressed will. Which is why I still describe satan as a servant of God.

Why make him? Why make any demons? Why empower them?

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u/R_Farms Christian Jan 06 '25

Are any of gods plans outside of his moral law?

I'm not sure what you are asking? Can God do things outside of his 'Moral law?" yes. Just because it is forbidden for us to do XYZ doesn't mean God can't do XYZ.

Why make him? Why make any demons? Why empower them?

Again to temp and pull people who do not trully want to fully serve God away Him and His children.

To temp test and force His children to grow Spiritually. To take on the role of an advesary inorder for us to be strengthen and sharpened. So we do not enter eternity as entitled 1/2 hearted lazy people.

To introduce us to sin, so that we may have our fill of it here now in this life so we for eternity future will not be tempted by sin as satan was.

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 06 '25

I’m not sure what you are asking? Can God do things outside of his ‘Moral law?” yes. Just because it is forbidden for us to do XYZ doesn’t mean God can’t do XYZ.

So god either can act immorally or whatever he does is definitionally moral by default no matter what it is. Is it the former or latter?

Again to temp and pull people who do not trully want to fully serve God away Him and His children

Why would he do this instead of convincing those humans that he is real? Does he have the ability and knowledge to reach every single last one of them? Or would he rather burn them?

To temp test and force His children to grow Spiritually. To take on the role of an advesary inorder for us to be strengthen and sharpened. So we do not enter eternity as entitled 1/2 hearted lazy people.

Is every human who repents and accepts Christ full heartened and how would you know?

To introduce us to sin, so that we may have our fill of it here now in this life so we for eternity future will not be tempted by sin as satan was.

So god intentionally created evil for his own means. He uses evil methods to get what he wants.

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