"Thou shalt have no other gods before Me"

[Godscreated]

Angels have powers God has given them Lucifer was the most powerful of angels but his powers are now restricted because of who he became.

If Mr God can restrict Lucifer's powers, then why not completely remove them if he's still causing mischief?

There is an appointed time for that, if you live long enough you will see it, but in your present condition what you would see would be terrifying, enough so that you would try and hide.

Sounds like Lucifer is useful to Mr God and it's all part of his plan. In which case, why punish him at all? Why not just say to one of his angel, hey Lucy, I need someone to be evil and to tempt the humans so I can punish some of them for eternity?

 Everyone is useful to God, no one is beyond His reach. You are quite the foolish one aren't you, one day you will find the truth and I hope it want be to late for you.

GC

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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".

Yes there is, His plan of salvation, to redeem unto himself all those who desire to be redeemed. Did God know before hand that Lucifer would rebel of coarse , did He have the plan of salvation already to go of coarse. All because of His fore knowledge not a plan.

GC

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  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.

 You've made no point because you haven't one to make, you are expressing what you want to believe and not the truth. You also need to remember God is the unseen God unlike all those other woodies and bronzies.

GC