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Exactly!!! Man I wish I'd gotten to this one earlier!

Satan may be SMART but he's not INTELLIGENT. He has no light for he lost it when he fell, and he doesn't have the whole truth cuz then he'd a never had Eve eat the apple. He didn't know that was part of the plan, if not he would probably have been content to sit there on his butt and watch as we never progressed! Trapped because Adam hadn't fallen.

There is a key difference between knowledge and intelligence.

Knowledge is basically amassing information about different topics and memories of certain experiences.

Intelligence is applying that knowledge towards Gospel principles.

Satan has much more knowledge than we do. However, he doesn't apply any of that towards Gospel principles. He instead tries to deny the truth and subvert the will of God.

The fact that we can apply our knowledge towards Gospel priciples and therefore gain in intelligence gives us an advantage over Satan. He can never gain any intelligence, so instead he tries to take away our intelligence by getting us to act contrary to the will of God. However, we won't let him! We will learn and grow and someday be like our Father in Heaven. biggrin

Wewt wewt. Snaksie and KK know their stuff. *applauds*

Maybe no. Lel I don't know. Unless you use your intelligence when you use your agency. But otherwise... I see no connection. But I'm just guessing at this.

There have been some really great ideas presented recently and it's cool to share different opinions. However, there are certain areas where there is opinion and then there is doctrine.

Satan has no intelligence because he has neither light nor truth. He has tons of knowledge. He is not in purgatory, but he is in outer darkness, a place reserved for those spirits that are not able to withstand any degree of glory.

When we are reseurrected, we all will have perfect bodies. However, our spirits will be different. Some will have bodies capable of withstanding celestial glory, some terrestial glory and some telestial glory. Some will have spirits unable to withstand any degree of glory. These are the spirits who will go and be with Lucifer.

Yes, Lucifer was a great spirit before he fell. He was the "Son of the morning" and he was part of our family. Father presented one plan. Lucifer said he would ensure everyone would go down and return, because we could not choose right from wrong, and all would be saved and the glory would be his. Jehovah stated that we all would go down and be able to choose between right and wrong. Some would make it and some wouldn't. But in the end, the glory would be the Father's. That is how Lucifer became Satan and he and those who followed him (approximately 1/3 of all our brethren and sisters) were cast out of heaven. We were extremely sad that these spirits rebelled because they were family, but we also had to stand up for what was right. Everyone on this earth kept their first estate and stood by our Father and our Savior. The others were cast out and lost their first estate. Where they are, no intelligence exists. No agency exists. No light exists. No truth exists. No happiness exists. Satan and all of his followers can never attain any degree of agency or intelligence. You need light for both intelligence and agency and he is in outer darkness. You have to see the light in order to choose the right. ( a nice little rhyme I thought of smile )

Satan has no agency. He can't decide he now wants to follow the Savior. There are no righteous choices available to him. This is part of where the "real"misery and suffering comes from. Just as he can't choose right, Heavenly Father cannot choose wrong. It is not possible. We don't have to worry..."I wonder if the Savior will lie to me today?" The Godhead all are free agents and have only righteous choices available to them.

So, that is why Satan has no intelligence. We do. He has no body. We do. He has no agency. We do. He hates us. We have everything he can never have. We can use knowledge towards gospel principles to gain more intelligence. He can only use knowledge to try and thwart the plan of God. He won't win, but he will deceive some more of God's children and drag them down to be with him. That is sad. That is why we must do all we can to spread the gospel and save all of our Father's children.

Well, I've gained some more insight. All matter is composed of "intelligence" as is stated in the D&C (humor me, I can't remember what section but I know it's there). God organized our spirit bodies (souls if you will) out of the intelligence. In a way you can say intelligence is energy and science says energy and matter can't be created nor destroyed but they can interchange. So God took intelligence(energy) and made our spirit bodies(matter). Spirit matter is extremely fine and can't be seen by the human eye, in a way it's why we need to be transfigured to stand in Gods presence.

Anyways, our agency is the right to choose between good and evil.
(2 Nephi 2:27)
-If we choose wrong we give our agency to Satan who rewards us with misery and captivity.
-If we choose right we give out agency to Christ who rewards us with more light/intelligence/spiritual energy and more agency.

As our ablilty to reason between good and evil increases-
(more intelligence, so in a way we're getting more energy to power our good and evil metal detector)
-we can more easily see which choice is right. As we can make the right choice better our thinking and choices get closer to what God wants until our thinking perfectly corresponds with God's.
(This is seen with prophets God gave the sealing power to. He wouldn't do that unless He knew that prophet wouldn't misuse it, ex. Elijah)
ONce we reached that point, if we've completed all prerequisites (baptism, temple, temple marriage, geneology) we've basically reached the point where we have our C&E.