One question many people have is if Satan is heavily influencing the world today, as the Bible says, why doesn't God just destroy Satan and put an end to it? C.S. Lewis discusses this critical topic in Mere Christianity:
"Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Well, Christians think He is going to land in force; we do not know when. But we can guess why He is delaying. He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely.
But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realize what it will be like when He does? When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage, the play is over. God is going to invade all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else - something it never entered your head to conceive - comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? It will be too late then to choose your side.
That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it."
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Next blog: Making better sense of who Jesus was:
"This man (Jesus) we are talking about either was (and is) just what He said or else a lunatic, or something worse".
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