I wonder if we even have the ability to comprehend who we were. I was writing a crazy story sort of like Screwtape Letters where instead of giving up all the stops were pulled and a way was figured out to bribe so to speak, this one, single, insiginificant person into the cause, because it was pivitol, she would not defect for any of the usual empty promises. So, special attention was given which would surely overwhelm.
As I was considering how it could be used to get the head devil consumed with trying to win over this person, it occurred to me that I thought it would. I did not think so many people or situations could be looked after at the same time. But, then I realized it was so mortal and human of me to apply my limitations on others.
As a Latter-day Saint, I believe that Lucifer or the Devil is a fallen angel, so we talk of a first estate or council in heaven where we existed before we were born, and then I do believe that we were caused to forget who we were as a sort of rite of passage to gaining a body and part of that was a covenant or promise to use that gift (a body) as a means to obey or subject our will to our father's. So, it makes sense, almost comon, that we would forget in order to get a body and accept the terms of forgetting things we knew so we would live by faith.
Ok, but Satan and a large number did not agree to have bodies, so, how were they punished, anyway? If Lucifer was so wonderful and wise to us then: it is not likely being incredible has diminished. He would not be limited as we are, but more like a God and able to do so much of what would seem like magic to us and our finite lives. This is how I imagine that he could personally oversee someone and not be overwhelmed by the volume of other information/situations necessary to wage a war on many fronts simultaneously.
We often say that God loves us individually, and I believe it, but it seems impossible. My thought was that parents always seem to do things that seem impossible. But further, I wonder how much of what God does is just who He is. I mean, who is He?
We know that he has a body like ours, and further that we hoped to be like him by getting a body, too. I watch SGA alot and advanced humans always seek "ascension" which is described as existing in pure energy form. It is funny though, that although they seem all powerful and such, they always seek for a body. They even try to make bodies to live in, cause computers did not function as well. At first, I thought well, wow, human bodies are the height of all things created and it gives me greater reverence for them. But, then I wondered, "well, what if it is just a thing that is familiar.", like a guy saying people existed for thousands of years without cell phones my first thought was yeah, they also lived without indoor plumbing, but try living without it after you grew up with it. I do not think I am
better (because I use toilet paper) than members of an undomesticated tribe somewhere. But, I am surely more limited because I am accustomed to it.
