What would happen if Satan turned good?

Question

According to the story, Satan has free will. Hypothetically speaking, what would happen if he decided enough is enough and went on the straight road? Would it mean the end of tempation?

(temptation)

Answer 1

mega confusion!

Answer 2

This is a great question.

The devil is not a person, the devil are the "sins" that us humans have hardwired inside us. That is why God said we are all born as sinners.

If you take a baby infant away from his parents and isolate him away from human interaction. The child will grow up with wild behaviors and have a lack of self-control. Put this child back into civilization and he will need to learn all the basic human socializing norms such as love and respect. (there have been recorded evidence of these feral children)

As a final thought, human temptation can and will never be ended, only by discipline and self-control can we contain temptation.

Answer 3

He won't. He is the antithesis of good. He is pure evil. He, along with a third of Heaven's angels, rebelled against God. Even then, God loved him so much that he gave him reign over the earth until Christ will come back. Once Christ is in power for a 1000-year period, then peace will prevail and temptation will be at an end. Satan will be Satan. He knows his time is limited. He won't change.

Answer 4

He won't. Read Revelation chapter 20 and 21.

We know the end of the story!

If you knew the EXACT score to next years super bowl you would take out the biggest loan, and bet that loan, your house, boat, car, and whatever else monetary wealth you had for the big gain. (Come on, tell the truth and shame the devil).

It's the same with the bible. We have been given the rest of the story! That's why we as Christians try to share the "Good News" about Jesus Christ, not because we're bigots, but because we care!

(I guess I can't speak for all Christians, so I'll speak for myself, I CARE!)

Answer 5

In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.

The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of Gods plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.

Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.

Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.

Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It’s meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 6

That is a very good question that I also have been thinking a lot about lately. How would the world re-act to this? If he has free will and intelligence then surely this IS the conclusion he must eventually come to. All Christians should be praying that Saten be saved... I don't think there is any one else in the Universe who could potentially turn more souls to Christ than he could. But who then would we have to blame all of our mistakes on? If you think of his prophesied future, and Christs compassion I think it is natural to want save him, one of God's Creations. Do you think there are any True Christians out there ready to convince the masses of Sat en's conversion? I would like to think so.

Answer 7

This is an interesting question,with free will it is possible.But there would probaly be another to take Satans place,until mankind himself gets it together as a whole,evil is fed by our lack of truth and our disconnection to god.When we stop causing harm Satan can't rein,the fire that burns is the one we feed.So I believe that would take independant action on our end and interdependant action for mankind,Satan tried to tempt Christ yet failed.So there is hope and where there is hope,faith.It still goes back to our responsibility of free will.

Answer 8

Afraid not..this world is still infected with the disease of sin whether satan was here or not. If you went back hypothetically of course lol and killed off Adam and Eve sin would still be in the world. I wouldn't hold your breath on the devil changing his mind anytime soon though.

Answer 9

Nice thought but sadly impossible.

Lucifer was an angel who fell from grace for the sin of hubris.

Isaiah 14:12-15
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Answer 10

And all his demons?
Millions would come to Christ, though the evil seed has been planted and watered and is already thriving in some of mankinds hearts, that there would always be some evil until the end of time, which is coming soon!

Answer 11

Then god would forgive him, and let him be an angel again... but I don't think that the human race would necessarily become good... temptation isn't from the devil so much as being in the mind...