Sunday, August 24, 2008

Satan

Is Satan omnipotent and omnipresent?

God created Satan to be an angel and he is therefore a created being. A created being cannot be omnipotent and omnipresent as these are attributes only God possesses. 1 John 4:4 says, "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world." This shows clearly that God is more powerful than Satan. It will be a great mistake to think of God and Satan as two equal powers waging a war. There is not a contest between the two because God is the unanimous winner.

There is no direct verse in the Bible as to whether Satan is omnipresent or not. But because Satan is an angelic being we can infer that he cannot be omnipresent. He cannot make himself available in more than one place at the same time.

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