Everywhere you see movies about satan and demons they are pictured as extremely UGLY! Why? Why is a different opinion other than god's so terrible and disgusting to look at? Actually god and satan's battle for our souls are kinda similar. God tells us what he expects of us and punishes us if we don't listen. Satan doesn't actually threaten us with anything but tries to lure us into his way of thinking (but I'm not sure why someone would want to live in hell with all that boiling and burning if they side with satan). God wants to overthrow satan...satan wants to overthrow god. Both want absolute power.
God is supposed to be love and peace and everything good. Is satan just the opposite? Does he really want anarchy and strife and ill will? What makes satan want to be like that? Even when he was an angel, was he a bad apple and played tricks on the other angels? Did he have a mean streak? It doesn't make sense that satan wants to be bad just because he gets his jollies from it. How does wanting bad things to happen to us help his cause? If everything disintegrates into chaos and anarchy then satan loses his motivation since he has won...like a virus that invades a person and ultimately kills him, but in so doing the virus also ends up killing itself. I really don't see anything that evil in satan other than he just has different ideas. For example, he wanted adam and eve to eat from the tree of knowledge against god's wishes. Big deal.
So what I guess I am asking is, what makes evil so repulsive if all it is is just another viewpoint?
Which brings me to another question...does everything bad has it's roots in satan if he truly is the "father of destruction"? Or is it just an isolated product of our free will.
I hope I have confused everybody.
God is supposed to be love and peace and everything good. Is satan just the opposite? Does he really want anarchy and strife and ill will? What makes satan want to be like that? Even when he was an angel, was he a bad apple and played tricks on the other angels? Did he have a mean streak? It doesn't make sense that satan wants to be bad just because he gets his jollies from it. How does wanting bad things to happen to us help his cause? If everything disintegrates into chaos and anarchy then satan loses his motivation since he has won...like a virus that invades a person and ultimately kills him, but in so doing the virus also ends up killing itself. I really don't see anything that evil in satan other than he just has different ideas. For example, he wanted adam and eve to eat from the tree of knowledge against god's wishes. Big deal.
So what I guess I am asking is, what makes evil so repulsive if all it is is just another viewpoint?
Which brings me to another question...does everything bad has it's roots in satan if he truly is the "father of destruction"? Or is it just an isolated product of our free will.
I hope I have confused everybody.