(July 10, 2016 at 8:34 am)Drich Wrote:(July 9, 2016 at 6:30 pm)Thena323 Wrote: Yah...I know what covet means.
Sure, I've entertained such thoughts in passing, in regards to the first two questions, at least. Never once organized an army of colleagues and attempted an actual takeover of the company, though.
That's not what I was getting at, anyhow. I was relaying my impression that there are limits to Biblical God's capabilities.
Christians generally convey otherwise, but I disagree.
But you do understand there are those who more agressivly 'covet' or at the very least think way too highly of themselves... and if one were to compound that over a few thousand years (working a job when you feel as if you have what it takes to own the place) something is bound to happen.
Look at the civil war.. same kind of thing happened there where in the southern most states thought they could make a better go of being a nation than what the rest of the union could provide. And... it didn't take a few thousand years for them to act.
Considering all things, If you were a believer/one of the angels who had to make a choice (stay with God or rebel) I looks as if your temperament would have had you make the same decision 2/3 of the angelic host made. You did not understand Lucifer's desire to break or knew it would fail so you stayed with God..
I understand the covetous nature just fine.
Trust me...I work with a bunch of chicks that are dead-set on destroying me.
The premise of my posts is that within Biblical context, it appears as though God doesn't simply smack Satan down because He can't.
Not yet, anyway.
According to text the Biblical God does seem to quite mighty, but doesn't he strike me as all-powerful, or all knowing, but He's generally purported to be.
That's was my gist.