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[–] Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Technically, Satan is a creation of God. Otherwise christianism would be polytheistic. So even if you consider Satan as the good guy, God is still responsible for both good and evil.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Christianity is has almost always been so dangerously close to polytheism that it’s laughable it isn’t considered to be.

It’s just bureaucracy at this point, I guess it’s not polytheism if you lower everyone to “middle manager god”

[–] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's pretty much what it is. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Satan, but it's "monotheistic". Uh-huh, sure.

[–] nefonous@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm far from being Christian but to be fair you're ignoring centuries of philosophical and theological debate about those

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I'm more interested in what is done in practice, and many Christians behave as if Satan is an evil god.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

In the story of the Tree of Knowledge, the serpent old the truth while god lied.

Between the two of them, only God kills in the bible, and boy he does it a LOT

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Not even technically, just 100% that. God created the angels, Lucifer is an angel. In practice, many Christians practice a polytheistic religion in which Satan is the bad god.