Does Satan believe the Bible?
Why would he choose to go up against someone that he knows to be omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent? (Would you play cards against someone you knew was omniscient?) Without question he knows the Bible, better than we, and probably even in the original language! :) But there is a difference between knowing and believing, as we often witness in our own lives.
I’ve had the thought that he is well aware of God’s power and victory, as well as the fact that his time is limited. So he has made it his aim to try and lead as many believers astray as possible and generally wreak as much havoc as possible until he is permanently defeated.
There’s also the possibility that he is just completely deranged (perhaps not untrue), and knows he is wrong, yet keeps fighting anyway. (Have you ever known you were arguing a losing point, even that you were probably wrong, yet for some reason that caused you to argue for it more strongly? Yes, that is kind of childish and a little unbalanced, but I don’t suppose Satan is above those things either?)
But how about the possibility that he really doesn’t believe it? He has read the things that we have read, he has witnessed the power of God, and seen that in reality he is no match. He has heard that he is really going to lose in the end, and that God has dominion and power over all things, including him. So why in someone’s right mind would they continue to battle against a power and authority like that, unless they didn’t really believe it? Perhaps he still thinks he has a chance, some possibility of defeating God and becoming the supreme power in the world?
I don’t know…thoughts??
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