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Expert: Hannah - 8/23/2008
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What does God says about killing? If someone is pure evil, what do you do to deal with them? Also, why can't God kill Satan and what do you do to beat Satan?
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Killing is one of the most severe sins there are. If there is one thing God couldn't care more about, it is His children. What are some of the worst things you could do to His children? He cares most how his children enter the world and how they exit it. Killing in war of course, is not upon your head, but if it was unjustified is upon the heads of the rulers of the countries. If someone is pure evil, what do you do? Well, what can you do? If you were supposed to kill them, you would do it. There have been times in the scriptures in which God told people to kill other people. Why? In the Book of Mormon, it says, "It is better that one man should perish, than a whole nation dwindle in unbelief." Meaning, sometimes you have to kill a man to save the people that he would later effect. And we have to make that judgment. And God is merciful. I don't think if someone was given the death sentence and then God said, "Nope. I didn't want him to die." That you're automatically condemned. Condemnation is SO much more complicated than fire and brimstone preachers would have you believe.
Why can't God kill Satan? He's not alive. He never had a body. He's a spirit. God has done what is like killing Satan. He has denied him and his followers a body. Everyone who has ever been or will ever be on earth has a body. And that's theirs to keep, regardless of what they do here. Granted, if you reenter Satan's prescence (really tough to do), and you have a body, it will be slightly awkward, but that's the way it works. He was SO desperately to have a body, that's why he hates all of us. How do you best Satan? He only has power when you give him power. Satan has no power of force, only mind power. And if you shut him out, he's powerless. If you tell Satan, no, everytime that he tempts you, you already won. It's pretty cool.
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