Of course not.
Think of it like a court case. It started off with Satan being convinced that men didn't need God to be content, so he sparked the rebellion. Since then, it's been Satan trying to prove his point. God's given him adequate time to show his side of the argument to see if the allegation was correct and that man didn't need God and could operate independently of him. What God could have done is killed Adam, Eve, Satan and just started again, but it would be conceivable that angels still in existence could begin to have doubts and think that God just killed them immediately because he was worried that they'd defeat him (which wouldn't happen).
What happened instead is what you see now. Still under Satan's rulership, we can see how things on Earth are going right now. Satan's being given time to show his side of the argument, and once his time is up, everything will be restored and there will be no question of the right course of action.
Took me a while to type that.
So what you are saying is, God created us and now is just watching to see what would happen next?
Not quite. Satan was allowed time to prove his point and it's clearly not going so well for him though. He was wrong.
Magmorph said:
God made Satan knowing what the outcome of creating him would be. God would already know the outcome of Satan's side of the argument. Time has no meaning to a infinite being.
God created an angel who allowed wrongful ambition to affect him. And though God has the power to see future events, it does not mean that he always knows everything that will happen any time he does anything. We have a sense of taste but it does not mean we taste everything we come into contact with. We have the power of speech but we do not always talk about the slightest event.
QUOTE(Prophet @ Apr 10 2011, 09:43 PM)