>>40942678 (OP)
>satan is some guy
I thought it was God's enemy in the Bible. Basically the spirit of being against something/someone. It can be used as a title to be a Satan (stand against) and in a sense it is God's scape goat offering while christ is his lamb offering for his own transgressions. (Christ is advocate, Satan is enemy)
It is explained, you can not be for, by being against, you can only serve one master, for or against.
In a sense it is God doing these things, but as Satan and God's Satan is God in action giving his Satan permission, but Satan is not God, it is Satan.
It is like saying my tempurtantrum got the best of me, I was a different person. I gave my anger permission to do as it pleases.
By the end of the book God promises to defeat his Satan by Michael (his word, because he said he would he would)
He will seal it for 1000 years in a magic fire along with death and hell and create a new world free of suffering. You can assume this fire is probably something like love or something because it tortures Satan (being against) and it was explained to fight Satan you love your enemies, you turn the other cheek, (you live as the body of Christ, to be an advocate for, not against)
That's what I got out of the book, I usually don't get the posts about satan or satanism or the word satanic, seems like no one can ever explain these things in a way that makes sense to me. Maybe you're the exception, what do you think?