(March 30, 2013 at 2:55 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Forgive me for interrupting your godgasm Drich, but at what point would your god not have realized the fatuous nature of satan's promises and temptations in explicit detail? I mean, it would be pretty difficult to tempt me into "sin" by offering me a glass box with nothing in it - promising that it was filled with 100$ bills....Or, perhaps more mystifying, by offering me something (like the world) - which I, as god, already had dominion over.....
That's just me, a lowly human worm.. monkeyman with no soul....etc etc etc. I assume your god would have slightly steelier ones than I?
That's just it. God (at that time) did not have control of the world. If you remember after Creation He handed the reigns of this world over to Adam to be it's care taker. Then Adam handed the reigns over to satan when he ate of the forbidden fruit. Or rather Adam handed Humanity over to sin, and as Satan is the Father of all sin. Meaning Humanity (the rulers of this world) became the properity of Sin, and sin belongs to satan. (Satan manipulates man through his bondage to sin, making Satan the ruler of this world.) *Side note this world is the cloest thing to a satan run Hell/Satan run world (where the devil is in command) Real Hell is not satan's realm as in other religions. Hell is where Satan is punished forever. Hell was stoked and primed for him to be punished forever not us.
Anyways, The offer Satan made to Christ was a way to reobtain dominion over this realm, this world without Having to die on the cross. God's way Had Christ beaten and scouraged, to pay for sin (And maybe it cost Him His Deity as well) Satan offered to simply give everything back without having to give anything up.
All He asked was that Jesus turn His back on God and worship Him. (Which if you think about it is kinda what God did to Jesus, In that He turned His back on Christ while He died on the cross.)
Tell me that is not a temptation. I am a goal oreanted person, and if the Goal is X and we have a very difficult plan to obtain X at Great or even catastrophic loss, and someone else offers a plan to ensure the accomplishment of X with little to no loss.. I would be in.
I Thank Christ it was Him there and not me. This world would look very different otherwise.
