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Lucifer: Doesn't know what's going on in the next room

posted 4 years ago by ace2 (545)
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He seemed pretty powerful, apparently he has no amount of omniscience. Perhaps that's for God only. But given how powerful he was it seemed a little weird.

[–] djangounlamed (1769) 4 years ago

Who knows. Maybe Gabriela as an uber powerful angel or angels in general have some sort of "blocker" against even him or else he'd just constantly be seeing what they are doing and mess with it. But then again he destroyed her easily so how powerful could she have been...

[–] Fluffyudders (119) 2 years ago

In fairness, Gabriel states she's gonna kick his ass, but then "someone doesn't have your back anymore". He only destroyed her easily once her 'backing' was removed. Before that point, she was at least powerful enough to believe she could fight Lucifer, so it's reasonable to assume she exhibited some kind of aura that would block her, and her immediate surroundings, from even the most powerful of evil entities.

[–] BourbonKing (5675) 3 years ago

I never read the comic book it's supposedly based off but growing up Catholic this seems to borrow from their school of thought on Christianity overall.

Born-Agains and Pentacostals wouldn't like this movie and most Catholics don't really care. What bothered me though was the lazy commoditization of Christianity. This story was supposedly about God, his fallen angels, Lucifer etc. but there's no Jesus to speak of?

[–] BillySlater (4125) 2 years ago

It´s good as a piece of entertainment but it has a very unBiblical message on salvation which is why there is no mention of Jesus (it is a Hollywood movie after all). Supposedly, Constantine can earn his way into heaven by self-sacrifice according to Gabriel but the Bible is clear, belief in Jesus as the sole sacrifice for sin is the only way one can be saved from hell.

[–] Jeepster (1048) 9 months ago

You’re right^about the omniscience part. The devil is NOT omniscient (all knowing/all seeing) Omnipresent (the ability to be everywhere at once, at the same time) & omnipotent (all powerful) like GOD is. You & the others here watch too many horror movies if you believe he is so my advice, forget about this stupid movie.

People make the mistake of viewing the devil as a god himself. He’s not, he’s a created thing, he was created by an almighty, all powerful God, and a created thing is part of creation & a created thing in creation is called a “creature”. So Satan is merely a creature, an animal much like humans (mammals) are. Albeit he as an angel is a creature on a higher plane of existence than us, with higher faculties, gifts and abilities but only a creature just like your dog, cat, bird, mom or dad nonetheless.

Constantine did say to Angela it was about a contest between Luu & God using only “influence”. Now that should you tell you something, something IMPORTANT. He CANNOT touch your “will” That he CANNOT do, which is why he tempts, lies & deceives, because it’s to get YOU to do that, not him. This also goes for God himself as he cannot do that either nor would he want to as he wouldn’t have given us free will if he was going to bend us to his will.

When it comes to him & the big G, I don’t understand why people stress or are fearful because as it stands it never was a contest to begin with as to who the easy & clear winner is ALWAYS going to be.

So NO Luu wasn’t expected to necessarily “know” what was going on in the other room & no Gabriel didn’t have any “blocker” on her so he wouldn’t. He couldn’t have known or seen already as his limits are just that..his limits just like we have. Have a good night.