Why do you choose to be an atheist?

**Nismo** · 02-06-2011

I asked you a question.. twice..

**Mouzie** · 02-07-2011

Originally Posted by Ethereal

I understand he's not in God's plan,
but to assume God can't kill Satan is a bit silly.
He created Satan, therefore he can destroy him.
So he has the ability to limit Satan to Earth,
and even the prison of hell, but not kill him?

Hey man believe what you want, just throwing my 2 cents in there.

You really can't say that God created Satan, I think Satan created himself (Yin/Yang) to create a balance between good and evil. What I think is that the snake that told Eve to eat the apple from that tree is Satan or some form of evil that created and Satan was able to take control over it.

I also never said God can't kill Satan, but I think he can't because of the manifestation between good and evil. Even if Satan is evil, he is good in a way by preventing those who committed serious sins from reaping the awards from other people. So in a way Satan is sort of like an antihero.

**Paroxysm** · 02-07-2011

God keeps satan around to make himself look like a good guy. Kind of like a average looking girl standing next to an ugo to make herself look better.

**Mouzie** · 02-07-2011

Originally Posted by Paroxysm

God keeps satan around to make himself look like a good guy. Kind of like a average looking girl standing next to an ugo to make herself look better.

I dunno, I still think Satan isn't evil, but your theory makes it more plausible too.

**[MPGH]Ethereal** · 02-07-2011

Originally Posted by Mouzie

You really can't say that God created Satan, I think Satan created himself (Yin/Yang) .

God created Satan bro..read Genesis.
At one point Satan was an Angel.
God created all Angels.
According to scriptures there ain't nothing good about him either.
He tried tempting Jesus into jumping off a cliff..
just goes to show you the stuff he finds joy in.

Originally Posted by Paroxysm

God keeps satan around to make himself look like a good guy. Kind of like a average looking girl standing next to an ugo to make herself look better.

lol..that's a pretty funny analogy

**Mouzie** · 02-07-2011

Originally Posted by Ethereal

God created Satan bro..read Genesis.
At one point Satan was an Angel.
God created all Angels.
According to scriptures there ain't nothing good about him either.
He tried tempting Jesus into jumping off a cliff..
just goes to show you the stuff he finds joy in.

lol..that's a pretty funny analogy

Job's Satan In the Book of Job, ha-Satan is a member of the divine council, “the sons of God” who are subservient to God. Ha-Satan in this capacity is many times translated as “the prosecutor,” and is charged by God to tempt humans and to report back to God all who go against His decrees. At the beginning of the book, Job is a good person “who feared God and turned away from evil,” (Job 1:1) and has therefore been rewarded by God. When the divine council meets, God boasts to ha-Satan about Job's blameless, morally upright character. Between Job 1:9-10 and 2:4-5, ha-Satan merely points out that God has given Job everything that a man could want, so of course Job would be loyal to God; if all Job has been given, even his health, were to be taken away from him, however, his faith would collapse. God therefore grants ha-Satan the chance to test Job.[7] Due to this, it has been interpreted that ha-Satan is under God’s control and cannot act without God’s permission. This is further shown in the epilogue of Job in which God is speaking to Job, ha-Satan is absent from these dialogues. “For Job, for [Job’s] friends, and for the narrator, it is ultimately Yahweh himself who is responsible for Job’s suffering; as Yahweh says to the “satan”, ‘You have incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason.’ (Job 2:3) ” [6]

I also never said anything about him being GOOD, but rather the fact that what he DOES IS GOOD in a way. Satan keeps the sinful and the evil away from God and his people. In a way that's GOOD.

**[MPGH]Ethereal** · 02-07-2011

Originally Posted by Mouzie

Job's Satan In the Book of Job, ha-Satan is a member of the divine council, “the sons of God” who are subservient to God. Ha-Satan in this capacity is many times translated as “the prosecutor,” and is charged by God to tempt humans and to report back to God all who go against His decrees. At the beginning of the book, Job is a good person “who feared God and turned away from evil,” (Job 1:1) and has therefore been rewarded by God. When the divine council meets, God boasts to ha-Satan about Job's blameless, morally upright character. Between Job 1:9-10 and 2:4-5, ha-Satan merely points out that God has given Job everything that a man could want, so of course Job would be loyal to God; if all Job has been given, even his health, were to be taken away from him, however, his faith would collapse. God therefore grants ha-Satan the chance to test Job.[7] Due to this, it has been interpreted that ha-Satan is under God’s control and cannot act without God’s permission. This is further shown in the epilogue of Job in which God is speaking to Job, ha-Satan is absent from these dialogues. “For Job, for [Job’s] friends, and for the narrator, it is ultimately Yahweh himself who is responsible for Job’s suffering; as Yahweh says to the “satan”, ‘You have incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason.’ (Job 2:3) ” [6]

I also never said anything about him being GOOD, but rather the fact that what he DOES IS GOOD in a way. Satan keeps the sinful and the evil away from God and his people. In a way that's GOOD.

Well..broken down in that light,
this seems to be very similar to the Zeus and Hades show.
Jk..they have very different stories, but some characteristics are similar.

Will elaborate a bit more later, still at work.