Now, doubtless we can all understand that an event like the Holocaust could cause a great questioning of the faith. What I didn't know was the extent to which it caused a mass questioning of faith in the Jewish Community.

I was watching a video about Jews the other day, its was a sorta Q&A from differing perspectives in the Jewish Community, from liberal reformers to Orthodox Rabbis in Israel. Anyways, this one man, Elie Wiesel, was talking about when he was in a concentration camp some of the elder Rabbis getting together and conducted a "Trial of God," calling for God to answer for the things that had happened under His watch. It was a very impassioned debate, it went on for a few days, and the verdict came back, "Guilty"

He went on to write the book "The Trial of God" in which God's only defender out of all the people is Satan.

Anyways, I was wondering your thoughts on the subject as a whole, or the info in specific. I found it rather interesting myself.

Let me first say, Eli Wiesel is a great author who has wrote some very influentiol pieces. Now about this whole "Trial of God" thing, needless to say they were going to question there faith. However, according to the bible Satan is viewed as this horrible person and Hell being this horrible place. Now even if Satan defended all people wouldn't they return with him to Hell which is viewed as horrible place?

The idea that he is defending God is the thing though. He is the evil, defending the supposed good.

Oh yes, I understand that but once you really sit down and think about it the final resolution would be what I stated in my post, prior to this one. The whole idea of the Trial of God is pretty weird how they were able to come up with such a scenario.

Satan isn't defending God so much as taking the blame.

But isn't that always the case though? Let's face it, Satan in Christian circles is always blamed for all the bad and nasty things that happen. As for the "Trail of God", it reminds me of a movie with a similar name: The man who sued God - or something along those lines.

Personally my ideas of religion have become so warped recently I find the whole idea comedic.

I'm always nervous about Satan.

I believe people to be inherently good. I believe God created them that way... I frankly think though that Satan allows for... a certain amount of dodging responsibility for your actions. The whole the devil made me do it thing.

I tend to believe that when the average person screws up and does something "bad" they did what they thought was right. They do it because they have incorrect information, or didn't take enough things into consideration, but usually they have reasons to have done what might have been considered evil. They are still responsible for their actions though.

The explanation I heard of Lucifer/Satan that I liked best was this idea that he brings choices. He shows up and offers someone a choice, but they still make the choices. This makes him at some level neutral if all he does is provide choices, then an individual still makes a choice to turn away from God, but at the time it might have appeared more appealing...

Just some thoughts on it for now.