Was God creating Satan a good idea?
Was God creating Satan a good idea?
Eden and creation seemed to be going along quite well for God and man until Satan was cast into Eden by God. God would have been in charge of who he allowed into the Garden of Eden. After all, God would have kept a firm control of who entered his new day care so as to insure the wellbeing of Adam and Eve.
Being all knowing, God already knew that Satan, with God’s own power of deception, would successfully tempt Eve to eat of the tree of all possible knowledge.
It almost seems as if God wanted us to and planned for us to fail. Perhaps that is why the Church called Adams sin a happy fault and necessary sin.
Christian dogma, the opposite of Jewish dogma, has Satan as God’s nemesis and arch rival for the souls of mankind. God’s foreknowledge would have told him that Satan would cause him to condemn the vast majority of his beloved souls to hell and death and thus play into Satan’s hands. This to me seems like God creating a huge amount of grief for himself and mankind, unless God truly wanted man to fail, --- and sin was a happy fault and necessary sin as the Church says.
Did Adam and Eve actually do what God really wanted them to do, and was God creating Satan a good idea?
We are told by the Church and scriptures to emulate God.
Should all parents do as God did and create a situation of failure for their children so as to insure that they too have the happy fault and necessary sin that makes them fail?
Why was it important for God to insure that we failed?
Regards
DL
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...when man created god(s)...
Yep, you heard me right.
The Hyena clitoris houses the birth canal. Not that strange in and of itself, but a problem arises from the Hyena's innate social structure. Females run the show, and pecking order (and therefore mating preference) is determined by aggressiveness. Aggressiveness is enhanced by androgens. Ergo, the females with the most androgens are more likely to mate. Trouble is, androgens also increase the length of the clitoris... by a lot. Up to seven inches. Unfortunately, the diameter of the birth canal remains a paltry inch or so.
Alpha females have to pass two-pound cubs through a seven-inch tube one inch in diameter. The tube often rips, and the rip is often fatal for first-time mothers.
Cool design!
