God is not in "need."
God is not in need nor does He need. God does not "need" any-thing.
I never said that God had a need , you made that up my friend... Sadly however we do not have a different set of words for things about God in English, so if you take things literally you will certainly misunderstand both me and the scriptures , God is not a man , nor like a man, men are like God in having the deepest respect for love , but the world robs us of manifesting it...
One can however see that the creation is a necessity , one could view it analagously as God showing through love that He is right and showing through failure of evil that He is not wrong , that there is no other way than love... but it is only fallible words, yoy can either pick them apart easily , or look for the meaning in them ... they are only words , and words which evolvved in THIS world , about this world, not in description of God... it would be surprising then if anyone could understand about God from our specialised words of this world, and indeed the scripture explains why so few do understand Him :-
1 Corinthians 2:14 [KJV]But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:14 [Rotherham] But, a man of the soul, doth not welcome the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, and he cannot get to know them, because, spiritually, are they examined;
Patent baloney. Satan is a temporal tool. When God is finished using it, it will be put away forever like a common garden tool in the infamous Lake, just as scriptures present.
Please stop being so rude , If you have no desire to discuss without disrespect then please go somewhere else because there is no place for it here and you have agreed to treat other's words with respect in coming here, please honour that commitment or leave...
Satan is indeed the created tool of God, as is mankind , as are the angels, but He could not be the God of love if He simply disposed of them when it was finished ... if you took the triouble to look at what your beliefs in this matter are based upon, instead of relying on the dubious translation of one word 'aion' in Greek, 'olam' in Hebrew , then you would change your mind about who to believe, the original authors of the scripture , or the somewhat biased translators of it ...
The word 'aion' is where we get the 'aeon' from, it means and age , not an infinite time , but just a long finite time ... Thus the 'ages of the sges' menas what it says, a finite sequence of ages to the end of time...
The truth established by obseravtion and deduction in Physics is that what we call time is neither fixed nor infinite , not even the same for everyone, but just very closely so... most men then think that they know what time is, but it can be shown quite straightforwardly and exactly that the common view of time, as assumed by Newton, and infinite stream of past and future, just isn't possible ...
Time was then created at the creatio of space, they are one thing, inseparable, time is a phenomenon of space , not independent of it ... time will thus also end when God destroys the universe and creates a new heavens and earth... it seems that time will exist finitely in the new universe too, but this time men will come to live righteously, not in sin ... thus God saves a few as priests and kings from this earth only to have them ready , it does not mean they are the only ones saved, just the firts of many, indeed their role is specifically as priests and kings , to rule perfectly and misister perfectly in the new earth to billions resurrected at the second resurrection...
But anyway Satan also is resurrected and set loose in the new earth kingdom to trial men as he did in this earth , God's tool is still of use to God in the new earth :-
Revelation 20:3 and cast him into the abyss, and fastened and sealed it over him,that he might not deceive the nations any more, until the thousand years, should be ended: after these, must he be loosed for a short time.
Why would God use Satan to perfect the love of the many in the new earth if they were condemned for sins in this earth, the scripture says if men turn from evil then they will live for their righteousness, not be condemned for past sins [Ezek 18:21]
God also says the trial by fire is PRECIOUS because it perfects love, so that is the purpose of the lake of fire , a loving purpose by a loving God ... and who is being perfected in it, Satan and the most evil men of all time , but god has removed those less evil, there is no-one left to prey upon, to benefit from, they all make their own lives a misery, it is not hard to seewhy God's plan works once He has removed the vulnerable, the simple, those easily preyed upon... evil is seen not to benefit the evil any more when those whom they preyed upon are not available and they just get preyed upon themselves... God's mercy extends to the ned of time, it does not end with the lake of fire ... but there is no more way out in death, and no hell any more, this is the final trial of evil and love to see which one these evil men and Satan accept in the end...
Inevitably satan's suppost dwindles to nothing, and he sees he is no god at all, and returns to do homage to Jesus and the Father as the prodigal son of God... just as Jesus says ALL created things will fo himage to him as their Lord, obeying his command to love God and love others...
So please read this scripture this time, read what it says in Jesus' own mouth , I canot seriously post it again and have you ignore that it does show that Satan, as a created being will accept Jesus as Lord, all that is required to be saved, redeemed to spirit :-
Revelation 5:13 And, every created thing which was in heaven, and upon the earth, and under the earth, and upon the sea, and, all the things in them, heard I, sayingUnto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the dominion, unto the ages of ages!
You hasve been misled by the poor translations we have of scripture... just do the work and recover the original meaning of 'aion' , the clue is in our usage of the word 'aeon', an age, a long ,but finite, period of time ...
Death is a power that will not be changed, but eradicated. Many things are specifically set for eternal destruction. This present earth for example, so there are specific scriptural exceptions to that statement.
The universe was apparently created from nothing at all ... its energy and eventually matter and people, borrowed from the gravity which we observe as a force ... so there is no problem with God's detroying every 'thing' that is matter or energy , they simply return to the nothing they came from... and God can create a new earth and destroy it the same way , this time making it righteous, loving, and saving many instead of just the few [saints at death , not sinners at death] who found the strait narow way in this earth , as He explaisn in scripture, first the few [Rev 7:3-8 sealed into sainthood by grace, departing iniquity through spirit baptism] then the many [Rev 7:9-10] by works in the righteous new earth when hell gives up ALL its dead , even the dead Satan :-
2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a
new earth, wherein
dwelleth righteousness.
Revelation 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and,
death and hades, gave up the dead that were in them; and they were judged, each one,
according to their works
I do not see how you ignore all this scripture, on what basis do you dod so ?
All mankind are Gods offspring. There will be no "party in heaven for just you and the few" whilst the balance of your fellow man are set aside. That is another "universalist fantasy" designed by the clergy thereof to keep you coming.
You are contradicting yourself, universalists , of which I am not one , believe as I do, that all men must be saved if God is to show himself loving, so everyone joins in glorying God, not just the few who are first because God requires the priests and kings at the beginning, not part wya through setting up the righteous kingdom on earth for all men
As for filling pews in churches and raking money out of people who blindly follow sinner priesthoods of this earth, being badgered into saying they believe creeds devised by men under thraets of terrible ends if the y donn't, when they have NOT been baptised to know all truth in this life as promised by jesus [John 16:13], I think that you will find that universalists are a tiny church , and that they have made many mistakes by not reproving from all the non-scriptural mistakes in christian doctrines...
How could universalists believe they were the few saved, please think before writing, universalists central belief is that everone is saved !
Perhaps you will look at the meaning of the original words now you see that you can make mistakes , and set the record straight about what the original scripture says about what men call eternity.... there simply is no evidence in scripture or the world for infinite time... it is then a misub=nderstanding of the past that became a mistranslation that has led a billion men astray from God's truth...
