Orange Order stands by grand master comments: Homosexuality is wrong

Originally posted by Surtur
Humanity in general might be responsible for more deaths, but God has a body count that absolutely dwarfs any single human in history. It's also true that he has done things a lot more horrible then Satan. Satan technically tricked people into gaining knowledge..and we see him as the ultimate evil. Don't get me wrong, the guy seemed like an arrogant d-bag, but gee I wonder where he learned THAT from? Actually can anyone think of any examples of Satan just flat out murdering someone?

I actually agree with the statement of if there is a God it is not the biblical one. Why? Because I am here typing this to you right now. The biblical God would of flooded this world 1,000 times over by now.

Satan doesn't appear until the Book of Job, and there's no real textual support in the Bible for Satan being the serpent.

This is correct.

First of all, let's not go into picky Biblical details like that- Surtur is entitled to refer to an exceptionally detailed Christian tradition of associating the serpent with Satan.

But in any case, do we have any more comments on topic here, or is it time to close?

Whether or not the serpent was actually Satan is arguable. One thing for sure is that if it wasn't the devil then Satan was at least most certainly influencing/possessing/controlling it. An ordinary snake would have no motive for trying to get Adam and Eve to disobey God nor would it be able to talk without help from a powerful being. So the serpent deceiving Eve was STILL Satan's doing no matter how you look at it.

What did I just say, Star?