broadmode on Nostr: You got close-ish. Satan really rebelled, as did Man. Both are deserving of hellfire, ...
You got close-ish.
Satan really rebelled, as did Man. Both are deserving of hellfire, as both reject God's grace.
God knew these things would happen as a result of granting agency/beingness to us, but that (in the greater sense) suits His plan. It would be reasonable and accurate to say that God preordained these things. God even tells of of His predestination.
Think carefully: If any of the events within Creation, including how Man or Satan acts, could upset God's plan, then God is not God.
Yet: Man was really granted agency by God, and we really used it to rebel against Him. We did that, not God. It's not as paradoxical as one would think upon closer inspection.
Man exists within the bounds of Creation, which was divinely engineered towards God's ends, not ours.
Satan really rebelled, as did Man. Both are deserving of hellfire, as both reject God's grace.
God knew these things would happen as a result of granting agency/beingness to us, but that (in the greater sense) suits His plan. It would be reasonable and accurate to say that God preordained these things. God even tells of of His predestination.
Think carefully: If any of the events within Creation, including how Man or Satan acts, could upset God's plan, then God is not God.
Yet: Man was really granted agency by God, and we really used it to rebel against Him. We did that, not God. It's not as paradoxical as one would think upon closer inspection.
Man exists within the bounds of Creation, which was divinely engineered towards God's ends, not ours.