| | Robert, I just read through this series of posts and really enjoyed your Post #5.
When I read Milton's Paradise Lost, I found that Satan would be much more interesting to know than God. I am surprised that there are not many more Christians or theists who have the courage to note this. One would then expect that this would bother them.
Of course, one of the main appeals of Christianity is that it offers everlasting life as a reward which can easily follow a life of sin and hedonism (as indeed it is expected to for man is a sinner) for the low price of asserting a belief that Christ came to Earth to save us from the consequences of our sins. So many who accept this worldview get to follow the more interesting Satan in this life and hope to evade the consequences in the next, longer life. What a deal! It only lacks reality and wisdom. But, it really makes it clear how much of a package Satan and God are. To accept the perfection of God, one has to accept the evil and the pleasure given by Satan. In fact, one has to revel in the fact of one's being of Satan, since one has Original Sin and lives inevitably as a sinner. The Christian believes in the Satan/God dichotomy and then further divides the God side into God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost. What fanciful imaginations have been at work here!
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