Explaining god and satan's relationship by relating it to a J. R. R. Tolkien book just made it even more confusing.
The point was that Satan, like any other being, has free will. He chose to work evil instead of God. God threw him out of His heavenly kingdom for it, but He also made a way to use the Devil a tool for His own glory.
In other words, the Devil is unwittingly
helping God. Yes, there is still demonic possessions, yes there is still temptation (rarely truly ever the Devil's own doing; most of the time we blame him for crap we do ourselves), but God instead gets in the way: He makes there be ways so that He is the cure. Drive the demons out; restore faith...
But god is supposed to be in charge? So everything is to his blame or his credit because it happened on his watch. Unless it's not his fault, because he's not in control.
Is it a 50 year old parent's fault that his or her 21 year old son got a speeding ticket? After all, their son still lives at home, and the parents are in charge.
Humanity was given two great gifts beyond fellow animals: outstanding intelligence (not that other species of animals are dumb; science shows otherwise, but we
are the only species with our level of intellect as we know), but also
spirit, or an advanced way to tell right from wrong (again, there is the same in other species to be sure, but not to our level) and a
relationship with God. No other species has a spirit; only we do (again, as far as we know; I'm certain beings like us in other worlds have one too).
God is not at fault for His creations. If I were to murder someone, it isn't my mother's or father's fault. And while God knows the future, it is equally true that
we don't. How do we know the end? Who are we to judge anyone's future? Tarot cards are a fraud (I should know; I used to "read" them...and yes, I knew it was a load at the time; fun though!). For I knew, the kid who used to be an absolute jerk in school might grow up to be a compassionate person (and that did happen to many I knew). Should I at that time pass judgment to God? He knew they'd get it in the end, but I didn't.
See how easy it is to blame God for nothing?
So then according to that logic, god the father created a son, which was also him, which he had killed to prove to himself that humanity should be forgiven for doing wrong???
The Son is not created. Again, God is eternal, which means He had no beginning and no end. Since the Son is God, then He is eternal like the Father and the Holy Spirit are.
Also again, neither "Person" (or "Hypostasis") is the other. The Father and the Son are One in Substance and have the same Will, but they are not the same Person.
God wanted to reconcile the world to Himself. He
volunteered to send the Second Person to be Incarnate. There is no ordering around.
Yeah because god supposedly stopped him at the last second. Either way, god issued the order in the first place, he should be held accountable.
You missed the point of the story. The story is about faithfulness, not about murder. God was never going to allow Abraham to kill his own son; a son that He had promised to Abraham earlier who would make him to be the ancestor of a whole nation of people. God wanted to see if Abraham truly have faith in Him to give what He promised. Abraham's willingness showed God that, if not this son, another. God knew this, and so stopped Abraham; after all, was it not He would told Cain how terrible his sin was for murdering his brother?
God wasn't seeing whether Abraham would "do what he said," but whether Abraham had faith in the promise He made to him. Isaac was never in jeopardy.
I might add that you look what happened next. Instead, an animal is offered instead in thanksgiving. This is a prefiguring of Christ's sacrifice; even back then, God's plan was being made known.
It is religion's fault. Islam is a sworn enemy of anyone who does not believe the Muslim faith. Look it up. And we all remember the story of Joshua in Jericho.
I actually know Islam well. It is a far more diverse religion than people think it is, with a myriad of theological schools of thought and a very rich history. There is a much debate in Islam about interpreting the Qur'an as there is in Christianity in interpreting the Holy Bible. Not to mention the influence of Tradition, which is, yes, also debated heavily in Islam.
In addition, I'm also a historian. The idea that Islam spread only "by the sword" is hogwash. Most of the time, it spread through trading and missionaries who were
not armed (a good example is how it originally arrived in the Subcontinent of India; Muslim missionaries were arrive, adopt the dress, cuisine, and lifestyles [so long as they weren't contrary to Islam] of the locals and then slowly taught their religion using as much logic as St. Justin the Martyr would have used). Furthermore, while peoples who were Muslims did conquer other areas, religion often had nothing to do with it. Non-Muslims were allowed freedom of religion and were usually allowed private jurisdiction in their own matters. As for the tax they had to pay, it wasn't always enforced and sometimes, it was ruled as contrary to Islam!
A lot of terrible things have been done in the name of religion: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism (yep; learn about Tibet sometime!), and Atheism have all had bloody histories. However, those who perpetrated those atrocities were not following the spirit of the religions they "claimed" to adhere to. I don't blame Atheism for Lenin or Chairman Mao. I don't blame Shinto for Japanese aggression before and during World War II. I don't blame Hinduism for Gandhi's assassination.