I do not give "god" The power of reason and decision making. These are characteristics of humans.

The perception of Good (God) and Bad (Satan) are personal and relative depending on who you talk to.... But most would accept that they represent in the mind of most men: that God is Good and Satan is Evil or Bad.... hence the opposite (complement) of God.

One energy can't exist without it's complement or opposite energy. Why ? Because there really is only One Energy that exists. I don't subscribe to the belief of a Being called Satan vs. a Being called God ..Satan being that Being which is evil and out to tempt mankind (and is also God's nemesis). In my mind that is just a colorful way of showing you the complementary duality in life and in all things. But...if we want to use your parable we can easily do so. . If "God" wanted to destroy "Satan" he would also destroy himself. IF God represents good..then Satan represents bad? How would you measure "good" without "bad" as a contrast and comparison?

The One energy fractured off a bit of itself... Yet IT retains most of Itself as ever expanding potential (think of the human brain). Then "That" splits into two energies which gives birth to infinite energy variations. Think of yin and yang ... an ancient pictorial representation of two energies that consume and give birth to each other...simultaneously. We see a physical representation of it in the human biology (remember: as above, so below). A sperm cell and a female egg come together as ONE ....then break down into a multitude of cells...which ultimately becomes billions of cells...that make up one individual.

I think it's important to remember that God gave us free will. When we use that free will to take our attention away from *satan* or evil, and place that attention instead on a Heaven right here on Earth, which is what we're really all looking for, I think we'll find that the evil we perceive will dissolve all by itself.We are the ones giving that so called evil power by giving our attention to it.

No, if you take away the bicycle so the boy doesn't harm himself, he never learns the joy of riding a bicycle.

This is the same for Satan if we take away the evil we take away the knowledge of evil and therefore are left with innocent ignorance. We have no choice but God then. However, with a choice we have awareness, knowledge and understanding, that there is a choice and we choose God.

This is why when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Good and Evil God said, "Behold they have become like us." It was our first step to becoming like God, we evolved over many years until the point that Jesus came and taught us more for how much like God we really are, we are the sons and daughters of God, God as Jesus came to teach us this.

We must be good by choice as adults, we understand the consequences and willingly choose good. As children we are forced to be good, we do not know the consequences. Furthermore we learn of our power over evil and Satan by having Satan and evil to resist and cast out. This as well teaches us of our inherent abilities as the sons and daughters of God. We learn of our abilities to heal all manner of sickness by having all manner of sickness to heal.

In other words we learn to make Earth like Heaven by our choices. We are in effect creating from the dross, gold, much as God did on the infinitely large scale of creating existence.

god gave you free will! as for satan he is doing is part people that do bad choice need a place to go also! god give you chance to work this out! but it is not because god give you chance that you need to take it for granted! example i will sin alot because god will give me a chance to work on it later! if god change is mind before you have work it out! what will happen to you? and anny way when god decide to eradicate evil and that people run like chicken with no head because flood are coming earth quake storm and the finger of god eradicate evil for ever what will it change for you if you did not sin?