There is multiple gods (Good guy) but only one satan (bad guy).
Should we then change the name of the different gods to GOOD and rename satan BAD?
Therefore, we know its a battle of good between bad. lol
1. In the topic title the spelling of
god is lower case first letter. This doesn't fit with the idea that there are many gods. However, if the Creator - The Great First Cause (TGFC) - God is the One Who is being talked about, the name should be capitalized.
2. The word "God" is not the name of God. We apply the word God to TGFC, but originally and throughout the ages, the word God has not been the word that was used. In the Bible, for example, the places where God's name has been translated from the original, the actual name was something else... like Elohim, Adonai, Yhwh, Saviour, etc.
"God" is not the name of God. But since we apply it as though it were, we have already changed the name of God.
3. The Bible tells us in at least two places that, every person who believes in God as his personal Saviour is a god. However, none of the gods (idols) of the nations throughout history are gods. If they were, they would be believers in TGFC-God, as talked about in #2. But the writings about them never talk about them believing in TGFC-God. Therefore they are not gods.
To call these idols "GOOD" is to call them something they are not. They are nothing. They have no strength. If any of them are found to have any strength whatsoever, the strength was granted to them by TGFC-God, temporarily, for His purposes.
Renaming Satan "BAD" is not a good idea. Why not? Because humans do bad things, and are often called "bad" as well. Only if you are going to categorize people who do not believe in TGFC-God as Satan's children, only then should you rename Satan to "BAD," and his children right along with him.
4. The battle between good and bad has already been finished. Jesus finished it with His death on the cross, and confirmed it shortly thereafter with His resurrection. The only reason why
bad exists is the same reason why you can chop off the head of a snake, and its body will still wiggle for some time.
Satan is dead. But he will be resurrected for a short time near the end of the world, for 3 basic reasons:
A. To confirm what is being said in TGFC-God's Word, the Bible;
B. Because many godless people are asking for Satan, and God hears and often answers the requests of unbelievers. Consider that God gives unbelievers food, rain as they need it, many of the desires of their hearts as they wish for them, and even their bodies and minds... just like He gives to believers. God wants them to recognize Him and to believe is His salvation so they are not destroyed in the Lake of Fire;
C. So that he (Satan) can be marched into the Lake of Fire, which is the dissolution of this universe that will dynamically go on for eternity.
