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Strictly speaking, why bad things happen to good people instead of being limited to bad people.
originally posted by: DISRAELI
When Satan becomes the “tempter”, that looks like a natural extension of his role as “accuser”; it’s a way of giving himself more evidence to work with.
The premise is that the tempted sinner opens himself up to adverse testimony, and thereby puts himself in the power of the accuser.
So when Satan “falls from heaven” in the New Testament, that is a fall from power as an accuser, a fall made possible by the forgiveness of sin.
“The accuser of our brethren has been thrown down… and they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb” (Revelation ch12 vv10-11).
That is, once the sin has been forgiven the accuser has lost the material of his case; the ground is cut away from under his feet. God’s knowledge of our sin has become irrelevant.
Revelation; Satan fell from heaven
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: rickymouse
Only if you insist on taking the story as a literal history.
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: rickymouse
I've certainly never said that every word has to be given a literal interpretation, and nobody really takes that view in practice.The parable of the Prodigal Son, for example, is recognised as a story devised for the purpose of illustrating a point, and I see Job ch1 as another example of the same genre.