RE: Free Will and Loving/Rejecting God
January 5, 2015 at 12:56 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2015 at 1:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Loki and Prometheus are much more in line with each other as characters (significant divergence here as well, of course). They suffer similar fates for similar reasons (and this may be an example of later revisionism....it's just too tidy). Loki's not a rebel - he's a member of the court. He actually helps them cheat people/giants/spirits on a near constant basis. In the end they banish him not for being who he is (they were fine with that so long as it served their purpose) but because he decided to play a trick on one of their own. He's later released, but not by men, and he has no particular regard for men at all. Significantly, Lokis side wins ragnarok (and we lose) - quite the departure from our bumbling Satan and damsel in distress Prometheus.
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