We have a problem with Satan? I have problems with many things that we label. sometimes i ask myself, how can we label "Nothing"? literally nothing doesn't exist. When you close your eyes what do you see? Nothing? Darkness? Formless things? But isn't darkness something? Now we seem to know what "Nothing" is, how can this be? Does "Nothing" exist then? But is "Nothing" true to its name? I probably sound like a Zen Monk, but if we can't understand "Nothing" how can we understand Satan? ummmmmmm....
How about Emptiness? Void? Is it something? is it nothing? Can we hold it? Yet we describe it like an object?
It all depends on how you hold it up to the light, how do you see it?
It seems that,we as individuals, see things differently. And the human language doesn't help in sharing our views.
Ok. If I showed you a big white paper with a black dot in the center. What is it? Is the Black dot the only thing? Is it something? What if i said the picture is really a hole in the wall. What then? The Black dot becomes nothing? Is the White part now the focus of the picture? But who is right? Is there an answer?
Maybe it's just the human langauge, its limiting, and it destroys. it distorts.
When God made man, he breathed a breath of life in them. That breath can only be corrupted through free will. Satan can touch everything else, because he owns everything else, but he can not touch that "soul". But the soul can touch corruption. I have heard the saying "you are what you think" When you hold on dearly to the temporary things of this world, you become one with this world. But if the World goes, guess what, you holding on to it, you go too.
By the way, to make things even more complicated, its easier to hold on to the world. But its harder to let it go. A Christian however lives seperated. their home becomes their enemy. This is why Jesus says "I did not come to bring peace."
What then? should i be scared? Oh not at all, im actually relieved to know that i can let this go and hold on to something better. and letting go is an act of seperation. IT doesn't have to be evil to "divide" or let go. Actually letting go of the past is a positive move. d a r n this english language....
But it all depends on how you see it. Like the picture, which was right? The Lonley Black dot? or the White wall with a hole? how about this, both are right, because you have multiplied the chances of making sense of the picture.
One view alone is corruption in itself.
This is what defeats many christians. They forget that they see many angles and that other people have yet to see certain angles. So christians make claims, that seem absolute, while the hearer asks "But how are they so sure?" But they can't explain it. You have to be in their brain to see what they see.
So satan is how the christian makes sense of the world.
But try blaming something on "Nothing".
Satan is only powerful when someone does not Have God on the other hand.
Just Like "Nothing" only exists when someone doesn't have "Something" on the other hand.
Hence the term. "Nothing is impossible with God."