(July 16, 2013 at 2:03 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Seeing as how love is a powerful motive and a great plot device, I would be tempted to write it as a conflict over a female angel. God created the perfect woman just for him, but the woman doesn't actually love god back. She just stays with him because he's the boss, and that's what he was created to do. Satan has his eye on her, however, and after some subtle flirting and courting, they fall in love with each other. It's pure, true love that brings them both great joy, but they have to keep it hidden from god. Eventually, the big guy finds out, and he gets angry with Satan. In Satan's defense the woman professes that she truly loves him, and that angers god even more. God kills the woman out of jealousy and banishes Satan to live in misery for eternity.
That's pretty good. And it would not seem out of place in the OT.
"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
