Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27586321-20150408162053/@comment-25008763-20150408163923

yes but under these rules Satan is a part of God himself.. the way God tests those that He feels requires it : He even manifested as Satan to His own Son.. and quickly had Satan vanish when Jesus rejected His offer.

Thus, by accepting Jesus' power and authority, even Satan shows that he is far from beyond God's control.. if anything Satan is a "Dark Angel", a "Shadow" God uses for reasons we humans can not really understand.

basically.. God and Satan, in monotheism anyway, are connected.. the Devil is far, far weaker than God and any "evil" Satan does is still part of God's ultimate plan for the world.

only under a polytheistic or dualism based system can Satan attain a true CM status.