"Thou shalt have no other gods before Me"

[Joods]

And a fallen angel,  at that.

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But it was already in god's plan for Satan to fall,  so he was doomed from the get go.

No it was not, Lucifer chose to disobey God and the result was his damnation.

GC

Then there is no such thing as "God's Plan".

[The Grand Nudger]

Lucy: Why
God: Shutup! I ask the questions around here!
Lucy: Why are you such a cunt?
God: Because I can ...and I can without consequences.

Yeah it's like someone in the corporate world destroying the environment for profit because it's their job. Or someone turning on the taps at the gas chambers. Life becomes a lot easier if you're just following orders and don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions. I think Lucy landed the prime job!

That really is one of the more poetic failures of christian mythmaking.  They turned him into an antihero....a flawed but promethean character.

Part of that was baked in from the start, as a significant set of christianity actually did associate jesus -as- lucifer, a god that was here to save us from the character in the OT. It was their sects idea to have a gospel in the first place, and while the nascent church decided to kill them, it kept their books and imagery, lol.

[Drich]

Isn't Satan also a god?

no.

Satan per the book of Job and other encounters between himself and God, satan is a servant. Albeit one in rebellion he yields to God never the less.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Isn't Satan also a god?

no.

Satan per the book of Job and other encounters between himself and God, satan is a servant. Albeit one in rebellion he yields to God never the less.

So he's performing Mr God's will?

[The Grand Nudger]

-and is Mr God responsible for his servants?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

When discussing the Bible it pays to remember the warning advisory from Titus 1:14 (NOG) = "They shouldn’t pay attention to Jewish myths or commands given by people who are always rejecting the truth."

[Minimalist]

Isn't Satan also a god?

no.

Satan per the book of Job and other encounters between himself and God, satan is a servant. Albeit one in rebellion he yields to God never the less.

Job is just more mythology borrowed from the Ancient Sumerians. 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ludlul-bel-nemeqi

Ludlul bel nemeqi, Akkadian: “Let Me Praise the Lord of Wisdom”, in ancient Mesopotamian religious literature, a philosophical composition concerned with a man who, seemingly forsaken by the gods, speculates on the changeability of men and fate. The composition, also called the “Poem of the Righteous Sufferer” or the “Babylonian Job,” has been likened to the biblical Book of Job.

Dating back to at least 1,700 BC it far predates any of your jewish shit.

[Anomalocaris]

No it was not, Lucifer chose to disobey God and the result was his damnation.

GC

Then there is no such thing as "God's Plan".

Maybe there is a god’s plan in which he masturbates himself into dominion over all things. But the plan fell apart when it encountered all things.

Come to think of it, that’s like GC’s plan.

[ignoramus]

  God was speaking about all the man made idols, those of wood and stone, like wise money and fame. Anything that's put first in one's life over God is an idol.

GC

That's a very telling point GC!

The way I see it, God needed to stress this subtle but important difference so much that he made a commandment out of it.
Because it would be so easy to confuse those fake gods in the form of statues and other idolatry with the real McCoy because to the untrained eye, they ALL act and interact with the world as IF they are all false and indistinguishable from each other!
That's the point we're trying to make. Thank you.

[The Industrial Atheist]

Those other gods might require less restrictions.