Bingowings said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

As someone who generally appreciates theism, your theology still makes me sad.

I think it's makes perfect sense.

If you take the Bible even remotely to be the story of God's interaction with humanity then everthing we attribute to 'the Devil' is done by the Old Testament God.

He wipes out whole civilisations, visits plagues and death on even his most devoted followers, urges people to rape and murder and even to murder their own children.

Jesus is in total opposition to all that and as the word for adversary is Satan one could make a perfectly good reading of the Biblical text where God is the Devil and Jesus is his rebellious son.

In fact it makes more sense that way.

The Eden Serpent whispers the Word "rebellion" into the ear of Eve and urges man to embrace free will.

Jesus urges man to not fear death on the promise of a new eternal incorruptible Kingdom with himself as ruler.

Embrace Gnosticism kids. You know it makes sense...sort of

Someone needs to spend more time reading the Bible and less reading critiques from others clearly out simply to tear it down.