(July 22, 2015 at 2:46 pm)dyresand Wrote: This is why i say satan isn't bad.If you go by the idea that the Bible is a single, unified work, then he does bad things. He deceives, he seeks opportunities to hurt people and then takes full advantage, he tries to derail god's plan to redeem mankind and drag as many people to damnation with him as he can.
He is equal parts Pandora and Loki. He unlocks the gateway to hell and then tries to usher people in, realizing from the start that his own fate has been sealed. In that sense he's kind of like a Bond villain. You know, the quirky billionaire who hatches the brilliant idea of causing the world to blow up in the hopes of earning a few million dollars. Not the best thought out plans, all in all. But he's a flawed character in a book that is all about flawed characters. Few of the characters in the Bible come away unscathed.
It'd be a very fun landscape to develop further, if people weren't so touchy about it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
