Children of God

Ann Rice, "If you believe God made the world around you...If you believe God made Satan. All Satan's power comes from God. And that Satan is simply God's child and we are simply all God's children. Are there gradations of evil? There are great degrees of goodness, wouldn't there be degrees of evil? How does one fall from grace? Do you merely have to miss mass on Sunday, steal a loaf of bread, sleep with the neighbors wife? If evil is without gradation, then only one sin is needed. I don't know if God exists, for all I know He doesn't exist, then no sin matters. If God does not exist then we are the highest level of consciousness in the universe. We understand the passage of time and the value of human life, so the greatest evil is to take that time away from another.'

I am struggling with this logic. If I believe God made Satan then all Satan's power comes from God which makes sin or evil not matter. It makes Jesus irrelevant as we don't need sanctification of sin as it all comes from God. This then makes religion only needed for a common goal or purpose. Like the way Socrates describes religion in the Republic.

I try and link the knowledge of good and evil to fill the need I have to have a personal relationship with God. The ability to see what is good and what is not. If we separate Good and Evil in all it's degrees there within expounding over and over from one generation to the next then we find a need for sanctification. We see that we are helpless to keep ourselves from evil, and therefore the sanctification of sin is very much needed. But I ask myself if that is true evil or my understanding based on pure personal experience?

Lets expound on the logic here a bit. If the greatest evil is to take time away from another what does that look like? Well killing someone takes time away. We can distract someone relationally by committing time and energy into one person and not allowing each other to experience other relationships. Slavery takes time from another person as they are forced to bend to the will of another with their time which means indentured servitude is also in that list of evil. How about today? There are some forms of slavery and indentured servitude like; work, technology, chores....does that mean everything we do in action is evil? It could be argued as such. But, no I don't think all forms of action are evil. This means Hitler was the ultimate evil, however from a different perspective he was trying to rid the world of evil...this is the same as what the christian crusades set out to do. We therefore need to know if the Source (God) can be both good and evil. Considering the Bible states that He made the tree of knowledge...was that just knowledge or specifically the knowledge of Good and Evil?

I watched this video, and it totally hit home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0A_iF1B3k0&app=desktop

The only other thing that separates my God from that of the others is Free Will and Grace. Are these concepts just theoreticians based on flawed logic? Can we use logic to define or prove there is a God?

I believe there has to be a logical way to prove God, I just haven't found it yet. I may never find it, but I will also not stop looking for it. I have felt what I understand to be God in situations and times in my life when there is no explanation. I needed God to make it through trauma and situations growing up. I needed the support of the community I found in church that all had a single focus of God and the difference He makes in life. I still need the community of believers that pray with me through good days and bad. I need the fellowship of people that I know I can count on and that they know they can count on me.

 If nothing else it gives us all something to think about, ponder, take apart and analyze. Maybe you can see through this line of logic and provide insight I may be missing. I welcome all questions comments and insights.