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Author Topic:   What if Satan reformed?
jerker77
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Message 105 of 234 (349901)
09-18-2006 2:36 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Archer Opteryx
08-18-2006 5:02 PM


WHAT IF Satan reformed?
Though I’m not a Christian I might be so bold to refer to one who a long time ago held that very belief.
If he reformed we would have something like the old teaching of Origen, the Apokátastasis panton. In brief Origen believed that salvation equalled the return of everything to god, including wicked men, daemons, and finally Lucifer. But Origins whole conception of the scheme of salvation is different from what present day Christians would recognize as Christian teaching.
If we postulate his reform Christians would lose their armoury of terror, torment and misery. The meaning of personal salvation would have to be redefined as would the theology of the cross.
Origen did all this necessary theological redefining and interestingly enough he got away with it. But his ideas never came into fashion in a wider circle than the Neo-Platonist circle that thrived in the early church.

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