No I don't think so. The reason is that I feel that the Biblical Satan acted completely illogical to what a perfect spirit creature would in his situation and not involving the questioning of God's right to rule but the way he's supposedly acted since. Here's my theory.
I love to play chess. I learned in the 3rd grade from a very cool and free thinking guidance counselor (Mr. Bankston) at school and think it's a wonderful game that helps to develop abstract thought and think that everyone needs to be taught it at a young age.
OK here's my point. The whole God vs. Satan brouhaha to me always seemed like a chess match. God was the White pieces because as the story goes he made the first move by creating the whole mess in the first place.
Now, it's Blacks (Satan) turn to move. What does he do? He comes to earth and tells Eve that if she eats the fruit she'll know good from evil. OK, Satan has made his opening.
4 "You will not certainly die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
White's (God) turn to move now.
14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this,
"Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring [a] and hers;
he will crush [b] your head,
and you will strike his heel."
Alrighty, the clocks rolling on Black's next move...but here's the problem, Satan knows he can't ever win unless he's proven completely true. He has to know this. Supposedly He's a perfect spirit creature with incredible powers of deductive reasoning so what I always pondered over was why he didn't just refuse to play the game. Don't make the next move. Cause the game to grind to a screeching halt. Simply put, let your first move play out to fruition or destruction because in the beginning you had to know that this whole rebellion thing was a huge gamble.
My point is this. Satan supposedly challenges God's authority to rule over humans. Well, there had to be some indication to Satan as he watched these humans being created that they would willfully disobey God or logically he wouldn't have approached them the way he did. The scientific method demands that you not, for lack of a better term, "F*** With" your experiments if you want them to be legitimate and to give you true and verifiable results. So, we're being asked to beleive that this perfect being has started the "experiment" of human rebellion and then has constantly had his dirty hands in it trying to swing the results to his side, when only true and untainted results would benefit (prove him true) him.
Damn, my head hurts now.