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Originally Posted by Praxeas
It also assumes that this whole thing is a game, a war between God and Satan. That gives way way too much power to Satan and puts him on equal footing with God.
In fact Satan only exists because God allows him to exist. If God is powerful enough to "cleanse" and save the Devil and his angels (which UR must logically include in salvation), then God could have done it a long long long time ago and saved this world a lot of pain and kept Adam and Eve from falling.
It's not a game. It's a test. God is weeding out the goats from the sheep. He is dividing the tares from the wheat.
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Right. A game implies God and Satan are equal opponents. One is just as great in magnitude as the other, only in opposite realms of goodness versus evil. It assumes good and evil are equally as strong as the other, and we wonder who "wins" in such cases. That is the false doctrine of dualism, where there can be no good unless there is evil.
Satan is not God's evil counterpart. If anything, Michael would be opposite to satan, not God being opposite to satan.