Why did Satan revolt against God?

[Twig pentagram]

Why? The story of Satan's revolt is an actual story; the pot at the end of a rainbow is just an old superstition.

My point was that some questions don't have logical or should I say factual answers to them.

 

[dust1n]

According to my understanding of the story (and admittedly, I haven't read Paradise Lost beyond the first few passages, and it's hard for me to make sense of them), Satan had a real superiority complex, and wanted to do the impossible: beat God.

That's less of a superiority complex and more of insanity.

 

[dust1n]

My point was that some questions don't have logical or should I say factual answers to them.

Thus I expected. I imagine the flaw had to be written before it could be considered a flaw.

 

[ZooGirl02]

This should help:

II. THE FALL OF THE ANGELS

391 Behind the disobedient choice of our first parents lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy.266 Scripture and the Church's Tradition see in this being a fallen angel, called "Satan" or the "devil".267 The Church teaches that Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: "The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing."268

392 Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels.269 This "fall" consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempter's words to our first parents: "You will be like God."270 The devil "has sinned from the beginning"; he is "a liar and the father of lies".271

393 It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels' sin unforgivable. "There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death."272

394 Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls "a murderer from the beginning", who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father.273 "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil."274 In its consequences the gravest of these works was the mendacious seduction that led man to disobey God.

395 The power of Satan is, nonetheless, not infinite. He is only a creature, powerful from the fact that he is pure spirit, but still a creature. He cannot prevent the building up of God's reign. Although Satan may act in the world out of hatred for God and his kingdom in Christ Jesus, and although his action may cause grave injuries - of a spiritual nature and, indirectly, even of a physical nature- to each man and to society, the action is permitted by divine providence which with strength and gentleness guides human and cosmic history. It is a great mystery that providence should permit diabolical activity, but "we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him."275

266 Cf. Gen 3:1-5; Wis 2:24.
267 Cf Jn 8:44; Rev 12:9.
268 Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800.
269 Cf. 2 Pet 2:4.
270 Gen 3:5.
271 1 Jn 3:8; Jn 8:44.
272 St. John Damascene, De Fide orth. 2,4: PG 94,877.
273 Jn 8:44; cf. Mt 4:1-11.
274 1 Jn 3:8.
275 Rom 8:28.

Catechism of the Catholic Church - PART 1 SECTION 2 CHAPTER 1 ARTICLE 1 PARAGRAPH 7

You can easily look up the Scriptural references at any online Bible.

 

[dust1n]

391 Behind the disobedient choice of our first parents lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy.266 Scripture and the Church's Tradition see in this being a fallen angel, called "Satan" or the "devil".267 The Church teaches that Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: "The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing."268

How did God not see this one coming?

 

[Riverwolf]

My point was that some questions don't have logical or should I say factual answers to them.

Whether or not the story is true, it's still a story in many peoples' psyches. I think it's a legit question at the very least from a literary perspective.

Just because too many people take this story literally, doesn't mean we can't recognize it for the classic story that it is.

 

[Riverwolf]

That's less of a superiority complex and more of insanity.

What's the difference?

 

[dust1n]

What's the difference?

So wouldn't that fall under incompetence? Or does God not take such things into consideration?

 

[tomato1236]

How did God not see this one coming?

Maybe he did.

 

[Riverwolf]

So wouldn't that fall under incompetence? Or does God not take such things into consideration?

Who knows the will of God?

 

[dust1n]

Maybe he did.

Then wouldn't he have been aware of the human fall before it happened?

 

[dust1n]

Who knows the will of God?

Of course.. but there could only be those two options.

Either God knew Satan was crazy and and punished the incompetent, or Satan wasn't crazy and willfully attacked God for reasons unknown.

 

[Beaudreaux]

According to my understanding of the story (and admittedly, I haven't read Paradise Lost beyond the first few passages, and it's hard for me to make sense of them), Satan had a real superiority complex, and wanted to do the impossible: beat God.

..."Paradise Lost"???? Is that part of the Biblical canon now?

 

[Beaudreaux]

Who knows the will of God?

Or perhaps no such God exists?

 

[tomato1236]

Then wouldn't he have been aware of the human fall before it happened?

Well yes, I suppose he would.

 

[Riverwolf]

..."Paradise Lost"???? Is that part of the Biblical canon now?

No, but from what I've seen, it's the primary source of the story. (And from what I've read of it, a fine poem.)

After all, it's not in the Bible.

 

[Riverwolf]

Or perhaps no such God exists?

...We're talking about a story, here, and God is very much a character in this story.

Perhaps the sarcastic smilee would have been better...

 

[MW0082]

Heres my question..... is God not all knopwing and powerful? How could anyone even betray such a being?

 

[no-body]

Satan is the original scape goat, that's pretty much the long and short of it.

God gives people and angels free will but he needs them to do what he wants or get punished? Sounds like a sadistic psychology experiment. Why should God be bound by any rules and laws? If God is truly omnimax then shouldn't evil be part of his will?

Saying that we are not the creator and should not question His rule is a lame cop out so is blaming all of it on Adam and Eve. What I get is we should get on our knees and suck it all down unquestionably to be rewarded. If we don't see it the way the bible (god) explains it then we are wrong. Sorry if I have a problem with this.

 

[Riverwolf]

Heres my question..... is God not all knopwing and powerful? How could anyone even betray such a being?

That's why it didn't work. ^_^