re: Evil Vs Divine Existence? Does belief in one mean the existence of other?
God didn’t crated 'shaitan. That shaitan (Jinn-Ibliss) due to his bad behaviour became ‘shaitan’. He refused the command of God b’coz he thought he’s better than that ‘Human’ which was created from clay (terra). Rather than putting him in the hell, he was given a chance to prove his stands whereas he challenged that he’ll astray the generation of that Human. God said him those who are righteous (on right path) will not follow you (shaitan). So it is like that rather than putting one into jail (without any trials) who committed a crime were given a fair chance to prove his or her stands (being not guilty of that act/crime).
God likes Justice and justice is one of His epithet out of many.
God made ‘marriage’ a legal term but still many enagages in pre-marital acts which is un-lawful. God clearly warned not to engage in such act but many disobey. Why then blame God for man’s wrong-doing? Why not blame the Shaitan who misguided them? Most important one should sincerely repent and ask forgiveness. Shaitan didn’t repented nor asked forgiveness so his followe does the same.
I think those who don’t believe in existence of God, not even believe in existence of Satan. The foremost and VIP point of followers of Satan is that 'they must astray pplz but without proving the existence of satan, b’coz once pplz start realizing/believe that the satan exists, than they’ll automatically going to start believing in the existence of God.
Quoted from Deepak Chopra’s philosophy “Evil, like everything else, depends upon perception. As your perception changes, evil shifts. It’s very important that this shift occurs, because if you remain locked in a rigid hatred or fear of evil, you push your own shadow further out of sight. No matter how hard you struggle to overcome evil, unless you understand your own shadow, it will find new ways to bring back the thing you hate and fear.”