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First off, I must adjure: It is not at all recommended to have dialog with the devil. I do not in any-wise shape, form, or fashion encourage having dialog or conversation with the devil. Such is unwise folly. I am NOT attempting conversation with the devil. Jesus, protect me from even his nether presence, I pray.
That being said however, I do pose one existential, supernatural question in the relevant ether. It’s not that “we don’t understand the nature of his game.“ The believer does understand his game. Satan is full of pride and jealousy. There is no truth in him. There is no real mystery to his disobedience. It’s not a mystery at all! He hates God. That’s the nature of his game.
He wants to hurt God because he hates Him. He can’t have what is God’s alone. Knowing that *God is love*, the devil does everything he can to deny and destroy God’s love. Free-willed hatred of God has become his (pretended) philosophical justification; shrouded, of course, in clouds of seductive mystery and magical chicanery with which he attempts to mesmerize the gathering.
He does everything he can to mangle what God has created. He desires to be God instead of the Holy One. But God has said: “His glory He would share with none other.” Satan despises that. He cries “foul” and covets what has never been his to possess and never will be.
To me, one of the residual questions falling out then is: why would any sentient being choose to make himself so hideous and so damned? It’s somewhat curious. There is no attractiveness nor gain to be had in continuing to make oneself hideous. There is no legitimate, intellectual argument to be gained. Pride and opposition to God is an all-consuming fire. It is inherently non-sensical. It is maniacally stupid and it is totally suicidal. Makes no sense within any context or manifestation. It is total and complete madness. So why?
I believe that the devil truly hopes that ultimately, God will end up hating him. Thereby (in his own mind anyway), he would then be able to demonstrate how God contradicts Himself. It would somehow justify his accusation of unfairness. That isn’t about to happen though, I don’t think. Not in this world – not in the next.
I don’t believe that God hates any of his created beings. He mourns when any free-willed, sentient being chooses evil instead of His love. He hates what’s happened but He doesn’t hate the created one. He hates the sin that damns that created one. He hates the sin with a passion probably deeper than we could possibly imagine. But He does not hate the one who has been consumed. At least I don’t believe He does.
The sinner will be judged along with the very sin that he has committed though. In the most legitimate sense, it is not an unfair God who condemns. Rather, it is that entity’s very own sin that has damned him. “The wages of sin is death.” There is no contravening of that law. That law is embedded within the very fabric of creation.
Holy law is an integral part of the Holiness and tenderness of our God. God’s law annihilates sin and wickedness, so that the righteous may live in peace and in safety. Where joy might abound. Where life and beauty can flourish. That is a good thing. No matter how outrageously the devil tries to deny and destroy the reality of God’s law, he cannot destroy that law. And he’s really pissed off about it. A lot of us can well testify to that.
Not being able to abrogate God’s law is probably one of the substantive, bottom-line things disturbing satan. Ultimately, no matter how hateful and hideous he makes himself, he cannot make God hate him. And I believe that really hurts him – emotively… down deep. The evolving realization that God is forever good and caring and eternally full of love, is probably finally sinking in on the old serpent. Jesus defeated him in His sinless life and on the cross. The devil has been forever defeated and has been forced to slink away.
Satan continues to destroy himself in an all-consuming fire anyway – for no real gain and no real purpose. And that has truly driven him MAD! He’s defeated. He’s wrong and he knows he’s wrong. He has no real cause. This profusely irritates him deep down, I believe.
Well… that’s my take on the subject of the devil. Just my own personal opinion of course. Comments?
Praise the Holy Name Of Jesus forevermore! In Whom we have eternal victory over the wicked one.
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