(October 27, 2014 at 2:26 pm)dyresand Wrote: Think about this for a moment and let it sink in.Why couldn't we have knowledge of good and evil without eating the fruit?
What if Lucifer was actually the good guy
Satan
•Satan, like Prometheus, gave knowledge to humanity by giving Eve the fruit from the forbidden tree. Because of Satan, humanity gained knowledge of good and evil, according to Genesis. Since we couldn't have possessed knowledge of good and evil before eating the fruit, Adam and Eve couldn't have known that eating the fruit was evil, so it seems a little harsh to punish them as severely as God did. Satan gave humans true capacity for moral judgment, unlike God, who simply expected everyone to mindlessly obey his orders.
Eating the fruit was wrong, yet gave knowledge of both evil and good.
Not eating the fruit after Satan's temptation would have been right, and so presumably would have given them knowledge of both good and evil as well.
Quote:•There is no biblical record of Satan engaging in the murder of torture of any human being, unlike God, who is guilty (and proudly guilty) of commiting genocide.Er, read Job.
Quote:•There is no biblical record of Satan ever ordering someone to kill someone else, unlike God, who has repeatedly demanded the deaths of those who commit even the smallest of offenses.I agree with you on this one, but since as noted in Job Satan directly kills and tortures, this point doesn't help his case at all.
Quote:•Satan will not be holding a massively dramatic ceremony full of blood and death for the return of his son to Earth. God apparently will.Read Revelation. Satan mimics the trinity and kills those who won't worship him: "The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed."