Thread:GodWasNeverOnYourSide/@comment-5175866-20151129211501/@comment-5175866-20151205004415

But if you believe that the Bible is fictional, and thus Satan is fictional you have to accept it from the intent of the author. Even if you were to not believe God authored the entire Bible, you would see that each and every author who mentions Satan indiviually attributes him as evil. In a piece of a literature, you can form your opinons on the characters, but it would not be correct, as the fact would be the author's intent formed from the opinon. The only other way to do so, is to be able describe Satan from a source outside of the Bible, which the Bible is the first source of it. So if you want to treat it as God's opinon, then it is not correct in literary terms.