« Reply #15 on: March 01, 2014, 05:31:46 PM »
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Thank you so much MyTruePower! I appreciate that. I want to learn. But no one seems to want to discuss his articles.
I you assume you agree (hopefully this does not scandalize anyone) that Satan is good in that he exists and was created by God, but that he only does evil (evil is the only thing he does) and never does good. Can I have worded that more precisely?
You've conveyed the idea well enough.
Yes, I basically agree. Existence itself is a good thing, so insofar as Satan exists, he has at least one good thing about him. However, Satan never -chooses- good over evil. That seems to make sense to me. As I see it, we have essentially three possibly options.
1. Agreeing with Saint Thomas Aquinas that Satan's existence is a good thing in itself (insofar as existence is good by its nature.)
2. Denying that existence is a good thing (in which case it would be hard to explain how God can exist, if existence is a bad thing to have in itself.)
3. Denying the existence of Satan.
Of these three options, needless to say, I think the first presents the fewest problems.
Thank you MyTruePower2.
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