(March 7, 2014 at 2:22 am)Godschild Wrote: Satan and the angels live with self pride as their guide not the principles of God. How is it you can justify what you said of a being that is omniscient, omnipresent and all powerful, your ideas go against any logical thoughts of a being with those attributes.I am figuring that such a being could not possibly inspire rebellion based on something as simple as pride. How could an angel feel such pride that he would turn against his own heavenly creator who displayed such qualities as god is said to have? How could a third of his own heavenly children be so unimpressed by god that they thought Satan was the better alternative?
We can feel jealousy of other people, but it's in large part because even the most impressive people can show character flaws. God is supposed to be more than just all-knowing/present/powerful. He personifies wisdom, and love, and mercy, and generosity, and anything and everything good. What would drive a person to be resentful? Where would Satan have learned such an emotion, surrounded by god and god's closest creation?
I think the idea that such creatures would desert that god en masse is much more illogical than the thought that the god in question is actually an egomaniac. Or, even more likely, just a character in a book.
"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