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No, it just means you are stupid, deciding for Satan instead of God your creator. He loved you first.
Satan hates you.
Lingweenie
Personally I do not believe in heaven/hell or god/satan. But I don't believe that it is portrayed that he is stronger.
But I think that Christians in particular have been mislead as to what Lucifer's (Satan) true intentions were. Christians believe he is evil incarnate, but I don't think that he is evil. The best word I can describe Satan would be manipulative. Since in the story of Job, and the famous garden of Eden event, he was testing these people, manipulating them, and trying to persuade them. He didn't do "evil" things that we consider today to be evil, such as murdering, thieving, etc.
Satan was the first person in Christianity to rebel. He didn't want to serve under god for the rest of his life. He wanted his own power and authority. He didn't do it for the sake of evil. He just got feed up being a servant. And we humans share that characteristic. We don't exactly like being told what to do, we want to be independent.
Satan actually wanted us to gain knowledge. Which is why he tempted Eve to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. I'm sure it maybe because he wanted to do it to smite god, but it seems like he wanted them to have free will, and do as they wanted. And to be able to attain that knowledge.
Many cultures have had deities that are in the form of serpents that gave to them knowledge, and science, etc. And as you know, Satan was said to come in the form of a snake when he tempted Adam and Eve.
What I am ultimately trying to say is, that I don't believe Satan in the Christian faith would be stronger. Because after all apparently good will always prevail in their prophecies. Not to mention It doesn't really seem like Satan wants to be stronger per say. He is just a rebel who wanted to be the master of himself. He did not want to be a servant any longer. And did not want to have to bow down to authority forever. Because in the Christian faith, there is a strong sense of underlying submission. God wants you to trust him no matter what, and worship him and only him. And if you don't he will make you suffer forever and ever.
arpgme
Satan means doing what you want rather than being forced to servitude like Jesus said.It IS good to give and love others, but only when you want to, otherwise, if it is forced it is fake anyway.
arpgme
FREEDOM, emotional honesty, being honest with your self should be the highest good, if you just try to live some spiritual order, then it is delusional - trying to deny self instead of just being your natural happy self-centered self.Self-centered, selfish, as in, looking for benefits for SELF.
For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. 38 For as they were in those days before the Flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, 39 and they took no note until the Flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.
God is Love,
If Jesus is God and Judas was possessed by Satan, then Satan killed God.
arpgme
God is Love,
InhaleExhale
NO, Love and fear are concepts of duality.
GOD is supposed to be all, encompass everything, God is the UNIT that divided itself to see its other side.
InhaleExhale
If Jesus is God and Judas was possessed by Satan, then Satan killed God. If one was believe the Gospel of Judas then God asked Satan to kill him.
Its Love and Hate you are speaking of. The opposite of Fear would be Intrepid/bravery.
Satan blocked God's will for mankind to be saved since most will go to hell anyway (Assuming the bible is true)
vethumanbeing
Its Love and Hate you are speaking of. The opposite of Fear would be Intrepid/bravery.
InhaleExhale
If you wish to use words and their meanings as words, I am looking at the two as concepts of our mind in their most basic forms from my perceived view of coarse.This is personal beliefs to me that have been paper mash-aid from many other beliefs before I existed here.
InhaleExhale
Hate stems from fear, there would be no hate if a consciousness had no fear trying to deceive it and no love to fear the loss of. Fear could be seen partnered with deception, and love with truth.
InhaleExhale
Love just is and is not afraid of what it is and fear need to hide its true form so it deceives. Love and hate are the two emotions/thought processes that all else stems from.
That is how I see things at the most basic levels,
I like to look at it that way because its different to what many see.
InhaleExhale
Just like I believe God, good and love all originate from the darkness, the nothing, the void.
It is the light that brought duality and knowledge of good and evil. So its the light that is the bringer of evil as much as the light brought everything else that separates from the unit.
enough of my mad ramblings.
As for Satan being stronger, God basically said to him, go for it, see if you can do better.
Then Satan's rulership style essentially sabotaged himself. He should have been interested in humanity succeeding at the very highest level, instead he let it all go to a big mess and a total failure.
God has proven Satan a liar over time. This period of time is like a court case where history is the evidence.
Don't blame Satan for how God made him, and don't forget who planned it all.