Ha! Satan wins then, because he has convinced you that he doesn’t exist - which, according to many fundies is a very clever thing to do - although I reckon I could pull it off without breaking a sweat, if I were invisible.
Chronos Exactly!! Satan is hells prisoner #1 which makes him the head honcho.
As the big cheese he can run the place as he wants and what’s more he does just that.
Every soul in there has a whale of a time and even some angels consider defecting.
Of course Satan can be a real bastard at times so you have to keep your nose clean.
Well is he?
I had a great idea for a Sci-Fi movie this morning involving this very theme. Basically, it would be set in modern day with a ‘Heavenly Host’ showing up in orbit around the earth and attacking various people/things on the planet from orbit. The scene that came to me was when one of the scientists is on the floor of his lab, where an angel is about to kill him…and he asks the angel ‘Why’.
The angel tells him that heaven created many races on many planets, telling each that they were ‘the only one’, but it was expected that over time, during the logical progression and advancement of the race, it would expand its understanding and accept that there were other races and planets out there. The problem was that Earth was no longer expanding its knowledge or evolving as a race. And satan wasn’t hated by god; he just had a bet with him over how quickly this planet would advance. If god wasn’t talking to satan, it was only because the experiment wasn’t over and the bet hadn’t been won yet. Also, evidently all prayers Are heard by god, and humanity amongst all other races had become way too needy for even a god to tolerate.
Angel: “You could have had your freedom and have lived your lives as you saw fit without any interference from us. Many thousands of planets do just that. But you didn’t want to grow up and think for yourselves; you insisted that we take care of you. And you, as a race, need to know that as races go, you whine incessantly. Did you know that one of us actually volunteered to be extinguished just to be able to over-fill that bitch Joplin’s needle with too much heroin? You should consider your selves lucky that anything with the name ‘Mercedes Benz’ on it wasn’t vaporized from your planet over 30 years ago.
Well, you wanted to be taken care of, and now you will be. You won’t have to think about who is evil or not; we’ll decide that for you. You won’t have to worry about supporting a justice system; we’ll judge everyone …and our judgment will be absolute and final. There will be no appeals. Free Will was truly wasted on humanity. ”
Sorry - I missed off a smilie. 
(Given that we have little information about God, even less on Satan and are still unsure how to rate intelligence, I was a bit baffled why it mattered so much anyway. :eek: )
Your argument is ingenious. However, on those grounds, nobody is as clever as
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Kayser Soze!
Fuck Ryan out loud. The Easter Bunny is totally made up! Sheesh.
Since neither one exists, it’s a meaningless question.
Are you saying that it never makes any sense to assess characteristics of fictional characters?
“I think the count of Monte Cristo was an admirable person”
“That is a meaningless thing to say. He never existed.”
Well, considering that God is perfect and omnisceint, two things that make Him God, if He created a question that He could not answer, He would be denying His omnisceince. This would be denying the truth, thus making Him cease to be perfect. If He ceased to be perfect He would cease to be God. So, IMO not that He COULDN’T, God CAN do anything, but He WOULDN’T.
Both made up?
Dammit, next you’ll be telling me The Tooth Fairy isn’t real :dubious:
The whole god/satan myth is based on them being equal.
Otherwise, satan would just wipe him out and party forever.
Satin is free will. All the flaws that make light against the silky shadow.
I think it depends on how in touch he is with his production department. I mean, if he micromanages every little molecule personally, then he’d always know the actual solution to the puzzle, but Im sure like any big CEO he is pretty out of touch with the day to day operations, so his production team probably constantly comes up with stuff that he doesnt understand.
Well, he intelligently designed the prostate gland so that it wraps around the unrinary tract. That’s pure evil.
In order to conform to standard practice in written English, make that “… He intelligently etc.”
Batman, if he’s prepared.