Could Satan be elegible for redemption????

[JayD]

It is my premise that God is the source of all being. As such it is impossible for anything to exist in heaven or on earth without him allowing it. Therefore Satan is dependant on Gods grace for his continued being.

So I pose a question is God's allowing Satan to exist done through a hope that he may repent?

 

[whitestar]

I wouldn't think so...I mean we see what happens to satan in Revelations, he is doomed to be thrown into the lake of fire forever. Since the Lord knows everything He already knows satan will not repent.

God bless
whitestar

 

[JayD]

Maybe it is also possible that Satan may be getting taught a lesson. That is - God Wins. Then in misery Satan exists for the rest of eternity knowing that all he did was in vain.

 

[Higgaion]

The answer is No. And God doesn't just sit around "hoping" that anyone will repent, humans or Satan. God actively BRINGS the elect to repentance. If he didn't do that NO ONE would ever repent. God controls salvation.

 

[oneiric]

His fate is already mapped out. He wouldn't anyway. He knows that Jesus is God and all that. He believes in God. But, He rejects him and always will.

 

[JayD]

You are missing my intent, and I appologise if I didn't express it well. It is not really a question about the possibility of Satans repentance (i know this can never happen.) but why God allows Satan to continue in existence (right from the time that he was banished from heaven.)

 

[lands21]

Because with Satan roaming around the earth leading God's children astray, the few that do chose Jesus, do it of there free will. This pleases God, were as without Satan, we would not be able to do evil, and would be robots following Jesus.

 

[oneiric]

http://www.carm.org/questions/suffering.htm