(November 23, 2016 at 12:07 pm)Drich Wrote: Satan only does what he is allowed to do.
If he temped Eve it is because God wanted eve to face temptation.
I just want to be clear, because "allowed to" is not the same as "ordered to." Is Satan created specifically to test people and try to lead them from God, or does he develop into that role and allowed to carry it out because it serves God's will? If it's the former, that has to be the worst "good news/bad news" moment of all time. But it would square with Jesus' description of him in John 8:44.
"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
