Satan’s Best Asset

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Satan’s Best Asset

Sin has increased in the world, more than ever before since Satan has managed to divert people from the truth and makes them feel that wrong things are better than the right things. Satan has lived for a long time and will live until the end of the world; hence, he has gained a lot of knowledge, which he uses to make our lives more and more unbearable, through diverting it from the truth (Sims 2008). His best asset has been deceit. Through deceit, Satan was able to divert Eve from the truth by coaxing her to take the forbidden fruit. Throughout his life, Satan tries to confuse humankind from the truth into lies, where he aims at making them believe that evil is better than God’s truth. This is in a quest to win his battle with God after he was banished from heaven (dartmouth.edu).

Satan’s banishing from heaven was his thirst for knowing more, where he was jealous of God’s power, his abilities such as being omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. This drove him to disobey God, which caused his banishment together with other angels he had managed to incite. Since then, growing jealous of man too, and hating him, he has devoted to making his life full of misery (Zeng 2008. Deception became his most precious asset, backed up by knowledge. Through his knowledge from being an angel of God, he knew that by coaxing man to eat it, he would cause their miserly (dartmouth.edu). He chose to deceive Eve, since she did not have much knowledge as Adam who was, receiving messages form Raphael, an angel of God used as the messenger. He went to Eve in the form of a serpent and managed to make her eat the fruit of the forbidden tree. This way, he had reached Adam considering Adam had so much love for her, and listened to her. Through this deception, Satan had managed to cause chaos where man was banished from the Garden of Eden, sin and death, which was not part of life, came in to life, and having to suffer was a result of his deceit. This is when the paradise upon which man was placed upon being created was lost (Sims 2008).

Satan manages to deceive all the people around him by using tricks and other evil acts. He does not approach any being by himself, but he chooses to transform to other forms. He deceives the angel Uriel by transforming into a cherub so that he can enter heaven. He turns into a toad and he confuses Eve through a dream. Satan wants humankind to follow him and he cannot do this by exposing his evil nature. He decides to entice people and deceive them with seemingly good things. He transforms into a serpent and he uses sweet words to convince Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge. Satan brings sin and death to the world. Angel Michael reveals to Adam the sin that will enter the world. After eating the fruit, Adam disobeys God’s command of having a pure and spiritual love for Eve and he begins to lust after her. Satan confesses that God is the almighty and the creator of the universe, yet he still plans to overthrow Him. He manages to convince people to sin more since he sees this as victory against God. Satan manages to convince many angels in heaven to follow him, and they end up as devils.

Since Satan was banished from heaven, he has always rebelled against God, seeking to pervert humankind from God’s ways. In Satan’s law, wrong is considered right, which is in an effort to rebel against God. He also knows the way to do so is through perverting man to see this as a reality, which he has greatly succeeded in doing so, so far. Through his deception, he makes man doubt God’s teachings and goodness that he advocates each of us. This drives us to doubt what His word teaches, causing many people to lose interest in focusing their life in God’s righteousness. When people stray from God, it is his happiness, and the only way he can do that is through deceiving and luring them into sin. He uses deception to make sin look more appealing than goodness, making goodness look more restricting. The consequence is making people stray away from God, into secular life full of sins and obscenity.

Conclusion

Through deception, Satan has managed to pervert so many people from God’s truth, making them feel as if it was not right to worship God (dartmouth.edu). Without his deceiving power that is driven by his knowledge, he cannot be able to change man’s thought. Hence, deception has to be his best asset, in order to convince man that wrong is right. His knowledge comes from the fact that he was an angel of God, who has lived since the beginning, making him so complex to understand human beings without help from the Holy Spirit. This makes it easy for him to deceive people, especially those without the Holy Spirit in their heart to give them discerning power to understand Satan’s ways of deceiving man. To rebel against God, he knows the only way is through perverting humankind, who is supposed to praise God. Therefore, when we are not praising God, he is happy. This means that without deception, he cannot be in a position to rebel against God since it means making his will be embraced by human beings. More so, it is through his deception that man today no longer lives in a paradise, and has to suffer to survive in the world, which is full of sins, death and miserly.

Work Cited

Dartmouth.edu. Paradise Lost. dartmouth.edu, n.d. Web. December 28, 2011.

Sims, Beth. Plot Summary of Paradise Lost: Book I. christs.cam.ac.uk, 2008. Web. December 28, 2011.

Zeng, Nicholas. Plot Summary of Paradise Lost: Book II. christs.cam.ac.uk, 2008. Web. December 28, 2011.