SmallFarm wrote:It's important to remember that Satan and his angels don't have the gift of agency like we do and operate within strict parameters set by our Father. ;)koiape wrote:That's the problem...why didn't these fake aliens take over back in the 1800's when they were first officially spotted? What are they waiting for? It will be so much easier to convince 1800's people that these aliens are superior beings and be worshiped as gods. Imagine what would have happened to the LDS Doctrine if aliens interfered. Imagine how much weaker, smaller, insignificant the church would have been if demons impersonated aliens at this time...the masses wouldn't even look twice at the Bible, The Qur'an and we can just forget about the little new controversial religious book, the Book of Mormon. Which none of these books mention anything alien or alien-esque, fly spaceships, intelligent life outside of Earth.
Demons must not be very smart if they waited until we had the Internet, nuclear bomb, electronical technological advances and a general increase of knowledge about life to start showing up now. And here we often contribute Lucifer as the master of deceit, father of lies, and bringer of sin....he could have easily turned this world into helpless little slaves if he would have went this route.
OK. If you can provide me with scriptural or modern revelatory source that states that God has prohibited Satan to "time periods" of when he is allowed to do something or not do something than I will concede because I honestly cannot think of one. Or perhaps you mean that the world is now wicked enough to embolden his deceptive ways?