Replying to a Response about Perfection

This post is in response to Sheryl’s post about Marjorie’s post about Satan being more interesting than God, Sheryl states that she thinks God is no less interesting than Satan. Here's the link:

http://paradisetranslation1011.blogspot.com/2008/11/response-to-perfection.html

I tend to agree with this, because, when one thinks about the subject, God supposedly knows everything. He is the reason everything happens. Even just by reading the poem, one begins to question God and his reasons. Why would God let Satan tempt Adam and Eve? If he wanted them to have free will, why couldn’t he have simply let them have the tree as temptation and not allowed Satan to be any part of their lives? And why did God let Satan and the other angels fall in the first place? So many questions about this just seem to lead the reader in circles. While Milton tries to justify God’s ways to man, I feel that he is just as confused as everyone else as to what, exactly, God’s reasons were.

In Marjorie’s post, she says “Perfection is boring!!! What exciting thing ever happens from knowing everything? With Satan, it’s different. We expect drama; we expect conflicts; we expect emotions; we expect chaos erupting from the depths of our soul. With Satan, he appears to be just like us.” While I certainly agree with the majority of what she says, I don’t believe that perfection is boring. This is what I agree with Sheryl on. Satan is, without a doubt, very interesting. He seems like us, and he seems to be unpredictable. It seems that Satan is just as capable of making mistakes as we are, whereas God is not, because He is perfect. However, just because God knows everything doesn’t mean there is nothing interesting. Sure, I suppose much that happened wouldn’t surprise him, but he surprises everyone else based on what he does. God knows everything that has happened and will happen, according to Milton. If this is the case, one must think about how intriguing it is that he allows things to happen the way they do. It’s amazing that God lets Adam and Eve be tempted and fall. Why would God do this? Why would God allow these kinds of things to happen? If God is perfect and all-knowing, why wouldn’t he simply keep things perfect? Now, wouldn’t that be boring?