That fiddle plays like shit, just so you know. Haven’t taken it out of the closet in 35 years.
I also imagine you can’t sell it-everyone knows where it came from.
Actually, that fiddle didn’t play all that bad, it was the accompaniment that lost it for old satan. Typical atheist, can’t get together or play on key. They even screwed up satan’s band.
Carrying coals to Newca-- that is, carrying coals to Hell?
Satan’s a convenient explanation for the bad things humans do, as well as unexplained scary phenomena. Rather than trying to suss out why somebody sinned against society, it’s just easier to ascribe all the malignity to a universal boogieman. Surely a benevolent God who loves his creation wouldn’t allow such things to happen. Therefore, Satan exists to take the blame, just like Santa Claus exists to explain to kids the gifts under a tree.
Christopher Marlowe’s explanation in Doctor Faustus is basically, misery loves company.
Regards,
Shodan
Marlowe! I shoulda fuckin’ known. So he’s the reason I just made a post in the newly re-vitalized “Damn this global warming to Hell and back” thread.
There was the whole Jesus thing. According to Christian belief, that changed the rules.
That’s exactly one of the many weird things about Christian belief. Shouldn’t the Big Guy have it all figured out from the very beginning, being omniscient and all that?
And some Christians believe that Jesus, being a part of the [del]Ghostly Trio[/del]Holy Trinity, always existed. This means that the change in The Plan was “pre-Planned”, and that God wasn’t really sorry about what went on before.
If you insist on “going Greek”, might you not mean Hades, God of the Underworld, instead?
Unless of course you are a disciple of Pan, who served as the prototype of the Christian devil?
Because Satan thinks God’s way–mindless obedience to power–is the wrong way, and He tirelessly attempts to “save” humanity.
Has anyone else read “The Deathbird” by Harlan Ellison?
Shodan (and Marlowe) get it right: misery loves company.
Woah, I thought Satan always followed the contract. But he loves loopholes and the appeals court is located in his turf.
Fun fact: in Job, Satan is referred to as the Satan, indicating it’s a position, not an individual. A special prosecutor if you will.
Jesus revealed the plan that always was, there were never any changes the way was always open and people found that way even before Jesus was born of Mary. There is only one way ever, and the instructions are seek and you shall find. Enoch was the first one we know about from scriptures who found they way because we know he was ‘raptured’. We also know no one can be justified by the Law, so the entire OT system was never the way.
“You’re a rabid anti-dentite.”
You’re also in the Pit. You know who rules the Pit, don’cha?
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So you’re saying the path to redemption always existed, even before Jesus was born in this world? If that’s the case, what did Jesus reveal when he was here? And what purpose did his presence on Earth serve is the way was already open?
Voldemort
That wasn’t Satan, that’s his second-cousin-by-marriage Hades. I know, I know, those family trees are confusing…
Only those who don’t move away too fast. But if they move away too fast, he can always declare them impure.
Maybe everybody was too dense to see it until Jesus showed up. And God’s own chosen people showed him the door.