The beginning of the absolute end; a compilation
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So why does God allow the devil and demons to lie and still go around, instead of put something in them that sends them to the lake of fire forever very soon after they tell a lie??
Ok, here comes theology 101.
God created everything good, right? He created the angels in His own image, meaning they like us have free will. They used their free will to rebel against God and fell away from Him, becoming demons. Thus they divorced themselves from God who is life and condemned themselves to the lake of fire (which is how they experience God's presence or absence depending on interpretation).
God doesn't create evil. Evil is uncreated and the logical result of free will.
No disagreement to any part of that, but another question - that would mean like good, evil also always existed. Evil having the attribute of always existing?
Why didn't the enemy "make" it? Apparently evil "came" into existence when the devil rebelled?
My original question here still stands.
No, by "evil is uncreated" I meant it doesn't have ontological exitance because God created everything and it was all good. The Church fathers explain evil as the privation of the good, similar to how darkness is the absence of light. Evil and death entered the world as a result of the fall of Adam. God the Son assumed human nature (becoming the second Adam) and healed it by defeating death itself (resurrection and harrowing of hades), giving us the path to salvation and eternal life in the Kingdom of God.
The enemy can't create. Satan and his demons are mere created angels and have no real power because all power comes from God. God created man to be above the angels. This is why Satan got envious and went after man in the first place. All the enemy has is lies but as we can see, lies go a long way in this fallen world.