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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 326378" data-attributes="member: 812">It's pretty hard to not get theological on this, but I'll try and steer clear of any truly ugly issues...Thing is, it has a lot to do with how you perceive the relationship between God and Satan. Are they truly rivals -- that is, would God destroy Satan if he could? That's serious blasphemy according to most Christian traditions because it implies that things can happen that are not God's will -- indeed that God's will can be thwarted.Is Satan deluding himself into thinking he's a rival to God whereas God is simply allowing Satan to run amok so He can find out who the bad people are?Or are Satan and God allies who work together to keep mortals from figuring out what's actually going on?Or is Satan some older being who predates the Abrahamic Jehovah and has been cast in the role of evildoer by energetic Christians?Obviously, any of these scenarios imply very different notions of who God and Satan are and what their appropriate domains would be.</blockquote>