Atheists here
I thought theist held the view god was absolutely perfect from the get go????
So what's with the
YHWH evolved.....
and / or learned over infinite time???
Here is how I explained this in response to a reply related to the ancient "gods" of the Greek myths......
and a Satan or fallen former Covering Cherub.
In a sentence I consider "God" the Creator to be a Scientist / Inventor who just happens to be composed of
fundamental or nearly fundamental energy explained by String Theory.
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Personally..... the existence of extremely powerful life forms would fit with my idea of
God evolving or learning over infinite time in the past. Some or even many of the
ancient traditions about "gods" could have a basis in a more Theistic Evolutionary Theory.
My guess is that Intelligence first came into existence in fundamental energy.....
assuming M-Theory I would guess that the energy of the eleventh space time dimension would begin to
think and plan and experiment first........
then later on fundamental energy would be formed into a more complex tenth dimensional continuum......
then later into a ninth dimensional continuum.....
later on an eighth dimension teeming with many life forms.....
later on a seventh dimension also teeming with life that on one level are somewhat "experimental"......
later on a sixth dimension teeming with life forms much less complicated than we humans are but with capabilities far beyond ours.....
later on a fifth dimensional space time was invented.... (I suspect as something of a prison environment for spirits who are very selfish and
predatory)..... (actually a lot of really angry and hateful beings may well exist in the energy of the sixth dimension as well)........ or it may be that
fifth and sixth dimensional space - time later on became more and more of a prison environment.......
but perhaps at first those levels of energy / life may have been very different indeed.
I suspect that to a degree... former Covering Cherub Halel who fell and ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil because it was in
Eden that he was in charge of...... I assume that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is somewhat like a program that increases
understanding exponentially but..... also leads to a terrible temptation.
I believe that the anger that former Covering Cherub Halel felt as he was thrown down......
would astonish us..... assuming that he was formed out of perhaps eighth or ninth dimensional energy......
the emotions that he would face would be far greater than the levels of jealousy or anger that we humans go through
so often.
To some degree... I do suspect that
Satan is acting in the mind set of the Milgram Experiment and is testing all of us
but perhaps..... if he within himself most admires the people who learn to love others.....
as opposed to becoming predatory and selfish......
This would compare to Stanley Milgram Ph. D. of course being more impressed with the
"Teacher Subjects" who DO NOT zap the "Learner Subject" with dangerously high levels of electrical pulse as they would deliberately
enact giving a wrong answer.......?!
http://www.sciforums.com/threads/can-satan-repent.164107/page-3#post-3670296