Griffith on Nostr: HyperBeroeanWave Free will and sin don’t seem compatible due to the nature of sin. ...
HyperBeroeanWave (npub1wh3…0yvx) Free will and sin don’t seem compatible due to the nature of sin. I suppose that argument has to be btfo by Adam and Eve sinning, but it still doesn’t feel right. If man had free will he would never sin, because sin is never justifiable, so whence sin cometh? Same for Satan. He fell to pride, but where does pride come from for an angel?
And shouldn’t he be in hell not heaven? Shouldn’t he be in hell, not in paradise talking to two innocent people? Shouldn’t he be in a block of ice nine layers down, not leading the only two humans in existence astray? Don’t we know from Job that Satan goes where he likes, talks to who he likes, converses and makes bets with God? He doesn’t seem very punished, or it’s not that clear and simple from what we know. None of it is. The Bible seems incomplete and like it’s missing context. There’s clearly more to the story than what we’re told, it doesn’t make sense on its face, and this is, one of, the reasons I’m skeptical of it. It doesn’t make sense. It should be common sense that Satan, or for someone who doesn’t believe it’s Satan, a malicious snake, should be hanging in the Garden. That’s paradise, not a community center.
If Dante was right and Satan was in a block of ice nine layers down he wouldn’t threaten anybody and you wouldn’t need to worry about him. You’d only want to know of him as the first example of sin and look upon him like a museum exhibit or a monument.
And shouldn’t he be in hell not heaven? Shouldn’t he be in hell, not in paradise talking to two innocent people? Shouldn’t he be in a block of ice nine layers down, not leading the only two humans in existence astray? Don’t we know from Job that Satan goes where he likes, talks to who he likes, converses and makes bets with God? He doesn’t seem very punished, or it’s not that clear and simple from what we know. None of it is. The Bible seems incomplete and like it’s missing context. There’s clearly more to the story than what we’re told, it doesn’t make sense on its face, and this is, one of, the reasons I’m skeptical of it. It doesn’t make sense. It should be common sense that Satan, or for someone who doesn’t believe it’s Satan, a malicious snake, should be hanging in the Garden. That’s paradise, not a community center.
If Dante was right and Satan was in a block of ice nine layers down he wouldn’t threaten anybody and you wouldn’t need to worry about him. You’d only want to know of him as the first example of sin and look upon him like a museum exhibit or a monument.