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LDS - Is Satan a hero?
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It looks like you believe that Adam and Eve made a good choice. Satan talked them into the transgression. Do you believe Satan is a hero here for talking them into it, or am I misunderstanding?
Not trying to put anyone down, but it kind of looks like perhaps you do? I'm sure I must be misunderstanding so please clarify.
Thanks!
Personally, I'm not grateful for Adam and Eve's choice. I wish I only had knowledge of good.
Scott (thanks for answering) mentioned God's eternal plan. I think we are on God's backup plan. We could have been perfect and without sin.
Avon Lady (thanks for answering) mentions that sin is a progression of mankind? I couldn't disagree more. How did that progress us? We could have been sinless and not separated from God?
Bottom line. We had fellowship with God. Adam and Eve blew it (not putting them down - I might have done the same), now we are separated from God and need a savior. Before we didn't need one. Jesus would not have had to suffer and die.
I don't get your position.
6 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The more I read from LDS' theology the less attracted I'm to them.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I do not believe Satan is a hero, and I am not grateful to him. Just like Scott said, Satan was trying to screw things up, and didn't know that it was exactly what God expected. Adam and Eve transgressed, which was necessary. In a black and white world, I suppose you could say it was bad and deserving of punishment (and it was punished) but it just so happens the punishment opened the way for the world to be populated. God worked within the guidelines of eternal justice to bring about his plan.
- masya_artLv 41 decade ago
No .Satan was" not" a hero. He was an instigator though...God even at that time gave them a choice, He warned them .Just as He does now. Just like Adam and Eve, it is "if I do it ...I'll get in trouble..." but because our thinking and decision making is weak,our choices are not always what's best for us.The temptations get the best of us. We then are left to learn from our unwise choices.Some lessons can be very painful and even lead to death. Satan then jumps with glee as we are now suffering.He thrives on our pain and misery.This is not God's way .We are given choices...if we make the wrong choice just like Adam and Eve...even though we know it is wrong...too bad. Satan "feels" like he is the hero...he just caused you to get on God's naughty list. If you talked somebody into jumping off the top of a skyscraper and they killed themselves....does that make you a hero? No...because like Satan...God's anger will come down on you.
- 1 decade ago
Not a hero, but what he did was a necessary part of the progression of mankind...without sin and understanding good from evil, Adam and Eve would never have prgressed and would have remained eternally innocent and NONE of us would be here.
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- 1 decade ago
I wouldn't say it was a good choice, but it was a choice that was necessary for mankind, so you kind of have to be grateful. What Satan did was try to mess up God's eternal plan, but he didn't know that he just helping it.
- Brother GLv 61 decade ago
Hmm if God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient meaning he knows all things and knows what will happen then he knows what will happened. No Satan isn't a hero, was he a hero when he tempt Judas and The jewish leadership into killing Jesus on a cross?
