If, In The Beginning ...

[joggerjayne]

there was only God ...

Why did he make the Devil ?

That seems like a bit of an own goal.

Like going on holiday, and making friends with the sort of people you'd try to avoid at home.

[joggerjayne]

Sorry, Doc.

[snags]

Spreading will be along shortly and all will become clear...

[emmie]

there are always two sides to every story, and God presumably wanted to look for himself.

[joggerjayne]

What is "Spreading" ?

[DTCwordfan]

Maybe that is what he thought he was doing - after all places like Blackpool and Newquay border on being Satanic......

[snags]

jj:

http://www.theanswerb...uk/members/spreading/

[vallaw]

joggerjayne, you really don't want to know about Spreading

[emmie]

DT not for the souls that live there perhaps

[joggerjayne]

LOL em10

Or maybe God wanted to make himself look good, by creating a baddie with whom He would be compared.

Oh no ... hang on ... that would be "Pride" ... which is a deadly sin, isn't it ??

Actually, I'm not sure what the deadly sins are.

Pride?

Gluttony?

Smoking?

Speeding?

Wearing "double denim" or socks with sandals?

Jealousy?

[joggerjayne]

Oh, I see ... Spreading is one of us !

[emmie]

The 7 Deadly Sins, also known as the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, is a classification of objectionable vices that have been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct followers concerning fallen humanity's tendency to sin. The currently recognized version of the list is usually given as wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony.
JJ so where are you in all that lot...

[joggerjayne]

I can be a bit slothful, I suppose.

And a bit of lust is quite jolly.

But apart from that, I don't think I'm too sinful, based on that list.

[JonnyBoy12]

God did not make the Devil bad to begin with. At first Satan was the Archangel Lucifer and he fell from grace when God and he come to blows. Lucifer wanted to be another God but God told him he had to serve him or leave. He fell from grace to become the Devil we all know and hate today.

Have I got this right, folks?

[emmie]

Spreading is someone who is trying to convince Abers to convert, at least thats what it seems like, and has been espousing the gospel as she/he knows it, or not

[Zeuhl]

<<Oh, I see ... Spreading is one of us ! >>

No.
He is definitely one of them.

[vallaw]

As an atheist, I am of course well acquainted with the 7 deadly sins. Pride, Gluttony, Avarice, Sloth. Anger, Lust and Envy. I try to practice every day . .

[emmie]

zeuhl, indeed.. the naughty atheists should be gone, before we corrupt the believers.

[rowanwitch]

if god is all things...then god is also the devil and as we are in his image we get the bad stuff too so it is alright to be wicked because part of god is.therefore part of us is and we are all god anyway.. hope that has cleared it up

[vallaw]

Jonnyboy, take Milton as the original Devil's Advocate and you have it about right.