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Why do you think that?

NO. YOU thought that, not bramps! And as you admit, you ASSUMED.

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No, bramps comments point to an assumption that he is making.

My comment, which I re-post below, is in retort to his comments, which presume that people would be nothing more than robots, without the capability of doing evil.

Your post makes the assumption that, mankind cannot be creative and capable of wonderful things without the existence of evil, or the capacity to do evil things.

My interpretation is after considering bramps comments below:

You are God. Capable of creating anything. Would you create a bunch of preprogrammed robots and quickly bore as they operate predictably or would you give your creation instructions and a free will and let the decide their own fate, with rewards and punishment based on their chosen paths?

My approach to the subject is not much more than saying that, Satan, is a product of people's imagination, and not a real creation. God gave us the capability of creating monsters in our minds, and Satan is man's attempt to personalize the evil doings of mankind. God gave us the free will to go in different directions, including evil and good, but, there is no need to create a Satan in order to identify what evil is about.