So from the statement, "If thou cursest me for doing the same thing that was done in other worlds..." you are implying that Satan was on those other worlds. But the statement doesn't say that. Also you are implying from that statement that these other worlds did not have a different Satan like character or that there was not another way that the people on them could have fallen. That is a big stretch from that statement. My take on it is that a fall has occurred on all other worlds and Satan is complaining that God is punishing him for partaking in what God has allowed to happen on other worlds. Satan probably feels that he is justified in doing what he did since it was done on all other worlds. What is not clear is how people came to fall on other worlds and whether there is a Satan like character on these other worlds who were punished for their role. We don't know how people of other worlds fell but the conversation seems to indicate that Satan did that which was done in other worlds or in other words, brought about the fall. I would take that as if a fall did occur on all other worlds and if he was doing that which was done on these other worlds that a fall occurred on them as well. To imply that Satan was on these other worlds and that he was never punished for doing the same thing he always does is reading into the statement much of what is not there.Obeone wrote: ↑September 5th, 2022, 2:13 pmPerhaps.CuriousThinker wrote: ↑September 5th, 2022, 1:19 pm In the temple video Satan mentioned to God that he was simply doing what had been done in other worlds. Perhaps they were commanded both but didn't wait till the proper time to be given permission to eat and therefore keep both commands. Instead of asking how to fulfill both they sought their own way.
Also, notice, the devil said: "If thou cursest me for doing the same thing that was done in other worlds..."
Think of this for a moment. It is obvious that Satan tempted Adams in other worlds before. If in those worlds (millions of them) he was cursed every time (millions of times), why is he surprised now?
The truth seems to be that he was not cursed before, because though he tempted their Adam's it did not produce a fall because they rejected his temptation.
This earth seems to be the first one where Satan's temptation produced a fall, hence HERE he was cursed for the first time. Hence his complaining.
Thus of millions of worlds, this earth seems to be the first one that fell.
Those other earths began and continued in terrestrial, millennial state, precisely as God commanded them.
This proves again that there was a better way, had Adam listened to the Father.
God placed a tree in the Garden and named it the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Was not this tree the key to gaining knowledge of good and evil? Was there really another way? If there was, then why place the tree in the garden in the first place and name it such? God then commands not to partake of it or else you will surely die. Partaking of the tree in and of itself was not what brought upon them the fall. It was the disobedience to his command to not partake of it that created a transgression which brought on the fall. The fall itself is what really, in my estimation brought about man's beginning of understanding good and evil. At that time they lost the blessing of living in a paradise and were cast out into the lone and dreary world. They became subject to illness and death and other things around them also died. They got their first lesson on disobedience to God's commands. They from that point began to experience good and evil. This, although harsh and difficult was part of God's plan so that mankind could know good and evil and learn to prize the good over the evil. I don't believe that there was any other way for them to acquire a deep understanding of good and evil and gain the strength to resist evil except by experiencing it first hand and this experience made them to become like God, to know good and evil.