Does satan get better with age?
Someone made a comment in last Sunday morning’s Bible class about satan, and how we sometimes give him more credit than he deserves. Frankly, I think we sometimes don’t give him enough credit too, but more times than not, we see him as having attributes that he doesn’t have.
satan is not omnipresent, for example. He’s not everywhere. He’s not omniscient. He can’t read our minds and know what we’re thinking. So if that’s true, how is he so effective at the temptation game?
I believe that satan is one of the craftiest beings ever created (which is another of his attributes — he’s created, not eternal). I also believe that he gets “better” (from his perspective, that is) with age. By that I mean that he learns from his failures to convince us to yield to temptation, and after each failure he tries something different. I believe that with practice, he has managed to hone his craft such that he’s better at what he does than he was, oh let’s say 1,975 years ago.
What do you think? Does satan get better (all right — worse) the older he gets?
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Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Bob Mathews
Filed under: Bible Characters, satan, Spiritual Warfare
