Something I found very interesting in this weeks reading was actually at the very beginning of Book Four. To the best of my understanding, it almost seems like Satan second guesses himself. So, it made me think, is there any chance Satan regrets what he did? I understand this is a book and it is written with characters who do not always give a perfect "image" of the one they are trying to portray, but that is just what it made me think of. Satan already knows the outcome of the story. He understands what is going to happen at the end of time better than any of us. He has already experienced the wrath of God when God removed him from Heaven. But still, is there any way he regrets what he did? He was in Heaven. He knows its beauty. He knows what perfection is; he basically stared it in the face. Does he miss being there? I also wondered if he was lonely? Is that why he persuaded Adam and Eve to eat the fruit? Did he just want someone or something to be, in a sense, just like him, blemished and broken? Did he want everything to be messed up because he was tired of being by himself? Was it just because he "hated" God? Again, I know it is a book, and literally, the end of the quote talks about how he confirmed himself in evil. Just that moment of Satan second-guessing himself made me curious.
Don't get me wrong, I do feel like I have an answer for my questions, and I feel like the answer would look something like, "No you dummy. Satan was prideful and wanted to be God which made him jealous of God. He wasn't lonely and he doesn't regret what he did. He had the other fallen angels with him, so he didn't care about being by himself. He wanted to be "in charge" and in a sense, he might have been, over the demons at least. He wants to take as much from God as he can because he is still jealous of God." Anyways, I just thought it was an interesting statement and made some interesting questions come into my head. What do you guys think, because I really don't know? Was there any possible way Satan regretted what he did, even for just a moment?
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Don't get me wrong, I do feel like I have an answer for my questions, and I feel like the answer would look something like, "No you dummy. Satan was prideful and wanted to be God which made him jealous of God. He wasn't lonely and he doesn't regret what he did. He had the other fallen angels with him, so he didn't care about being by himself. He wanted to be "in charge" and in a sense, he might have been, over the demons at least. He wants to take as much from God as he can because he is still jealous of God." Anyways, I just thought it was an interesting statement and made some interesting questions come into my head. What do you guys think, because I really don't know? Was there any possible way Satan regretted what he did, even for just a moment?
I commented on Spencer's and Mary Emma's posts.
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