AdminJar writes:
Stop this. Head back towards the topic. It is "What if Satan reformed?"
From a fundyish-viewpoint: Satan's reformaton would seem equivalent to his being *taken out* of the picture or erased from existence.
If Satan *reformed*: No need for prayer, atonement, reconciliation, forgiveness, salvation, justice, eternal punishment, etc. since sin and evil would be erased from existence. (This is debatable by many fundies who believe in a literal 1000 years SANS Satan)
If Satan reformed: No more cosmic-curse: The 2nd Law of Thermo might not exist: Beneficial mutation (macro-evolution) might actually become *tenable hypothesis* for a change.
If Satan reformed: Everyone would raise from the dead, the kindom of heaven would be complete on earth ... no more sorrows and pain ... at all ... we'd be stuck with the "Gospel of the Kingdom" SANS "the Gospel of Grace" (another dispensation)
... Satan, Death, and *Hell* would still be cast into the Lake of Fire because these 3 angels can't really be erased, just damned. Their legacy of sorrow and pain far exceeds the means and methods of reformation. The cross of Christ could never redeem Satan nor angelic aliens, whether good or evil (by definition, Christ only assimilates human sins (2Cor5.13), only eternal judgement of hellfire could make possible Satan's existence to begin with (if God were ominpresent).
... The Eternal Lamb of God may assimilate my abominable crimes against the Majesty of Holiness (the LORD) and give me repentence, rebirth, remission, restoration, and eternal life, etc...
If Satan reformed it would be caused by a valid Redeemer paying for and bailing out the devil and his damnation, anyway ... the Lamb of God would have had to assimilate Satan and all his anti-Christ agendas, the Lake of Fire, and all demons that befit this fearful cherub
... all this eternally and divinely planned-out first ... before giving Satan any good inclination of God's grace to validate any *reformation*.
Respectfully to all, I propose this topic is become quite invalidated and should be closed.
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