Satan was made by God, as God has made all creation. Why would atheists be mad? It's the Christians who should be mad about that. Dick move, really. World would be better without Satan, personal opinion, but I guess God knows better than I do, He must have some sort of plan for making Satan, and letting him run amok.
Doesn't address the comment, but good preachwork. Just remember not all evil looks evil, the most insidious of false prophets approach claiming to know the truth of Goodness. "The path to hell is paved in good intentions" does not mean that doing good leads to a negative outcome, it means those who would bring Hell upon us do so by claiming their bricks and mortar, their works, are more Goodly.
Satan was created by God, as one of His most powerful and fearsome creations. Neither Satan nor God are clowns, here to entertain us with our preconceived notions. Evil is cunning. Evil changes its methods. It does not tire of its vocation. It does not seek to be wiped out. If it never changed, it would have been wiped out millennia ago.
Do not assume Evil to be so simple, so childish, so... innocent and pure. The choices men make to allow evil to enter are not the tales of superheroes and unicorns. They are the tales of walking past a beggar. Of watching the cries of the downtrodden and shrugging in mock helplessness. Of looking at a dichotomy presented by the king of lies, and never conceiving of a third option.
You want an easy foe. You want a simple vanquish, to work without thought, without concern. You want to be morally and intellectually lazy. THAT is the work of the Lord of Lies. To assume evil to be innocent and childlike, obvious and easily vanquished, is his greatest accomplishment.
You ever wonder what would have happened if they didn't? Like, people have free will, what if they chose to believe in him and Jesus was like, "no, but I came here to die, someone has to crucify me." And they all just go "that sounds horrible, who would do that to God's own son?"
I mean, the truth has always been savage. They killed Jesus for the truth and it was probably the same forces trying to kill us today.
Boom. It's Satan, the Father of Lies. The atheists won't like it, but that's the fact.
Atheist don’t care. Source: I am one. Evil is evil, call it whatever you need to.
Satan was made by God, as God has made all creation. Why would atheists be mad? It's the Christians who should be mad about that. Dick move, really. World would be better without Satan, personal opinion, but I guess God knows better than I do, He must have some sort of plan for making Satan, and letting him run amok.
Satan only lives in the heart of men who choose to allow him to enter
Doesn't address the comment, but good preachwork. Just remember not all evil looks evil, the most insidious of false prophets approach claiming to know the truth of Goodness. "The path to hell is paved in good intentions" does not mean that doing good leads to a negative outcome, it means those who would bring Hell upon us do so by claiming their bricks and mortar, their works, are more Goodly.
Satan was created by God, as one of His most powerful and fearsome creations. Neither Satan nor God are clowns, here to entertain us with our preconceived notions. Evil is cunning. Evil changes its methods. It does not tire of its vocation. It does not seek to be wiped out. If it never changed, it would have been wiped out millennia ago.
Do not assume Evil to be so simple, so childish, so... innocent and pure. The choices men make to allow evil to enter are not the tales of superheroes and unicorns. They are the tales of walking past a beggar. Of watching the cries of the downtrodden and shrugging in mock helplessness. Of looking at a dichotomy presented by the king of lies, and never conceiving of a third option.
You want an easy foe. You want a simple vanquish, to work without thought, without concern. You want to be morally and intellectually lazy. THAT is the work of the Lord of Lies. To assume evil to be innocent and childlike, obvious and easily vanquished, is his greatest accomplishment.
God created freedom. Rebellion (Satan) is an inevitability if the freedom is real.
No salvation without sin.
You ever wonder what would have happened if they didn't? Like, people have free will, what if they chose to believe in him and Jesus was like, "no, but I came here to die, someone has to crucify me." And they all just go "that sounds horrible, who would do that to God's own son?"
Well that was a savagely asinine comment.
Projection.