SATAN-IDENTIFIED
Satan is an
angel. All angels were created (Col. 1:16; Jn. 1:1-3). Therefore, Satan was
created. He is, therefore, God’s Devil. Satan is not the equal and opposite
power of God (contra dualism). He is not eternal. His power is not infinite. He
does not possess divine attributes. In sum, he is no match for God! If
anything, Satan is the equal(?) and opposite power of
the archangel Michael.
Sam
Storms
Satan, November
8, 2006, www.enjoyinggodministries.org,
Used by Permission.
The devil is
not impersonal like stones or bureaucracies; he is a non-person. The Devil has
become all that God is not; he is not beyond personality – he is without it.
His purpose in creation is not to destroy God; he knows that he cannot do that.
He wants to draw us into the vortex of non-personhood that he has become, and
the nothingness of non-being that he is becoming. Satan, in short, aims to take
as many of us with him as he can.
Nigel Wright
The Satan Syndrome, Zondervan, 1990, p. 163.
Satan has
three titles given in the Scriptures, setting forth his malignity against the
church of God; a dragon, to note his malice; a serpent, to note his subtlety;
and a lion, to note his strength.
Edward Reynolds
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by
I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 75.
The devil is
a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
A.W. Tozer
Man, the Dwelling Place of God