(August 6, 2015 at 6:29 pm)Chad32 Wrote: There's this idea about selling your soul that goes around. The devil tricks you into signing a contract because he wants your soul. The problem I see with this is that by default he already gets everyone's soul. You have to beg god not to send you to hell, during your lifetime, or you go to hell.
It's not like a contract keeps you from being saved, either. Supposedly Jesus can still save you, even after you make a contract in these stories, unless I'm wrong. So what's the point of these stories about contracts in exchange for something the devil already gets by default?
These stories are based on the idea that "good people Goto Heaven and bad people Goto Hell." When according to God's standard. There are no "good people."
The point is to show or demonstrate a basic lack of the core principles of Christianity. They also (in their original time, )explained away how/why bad or non religious people became successful while the faithful did not.
That said the devil does make alliances with people, but not for their souls (as Hell is not his kingdom, but his prision/He is in torment there just like everyone else) this world is the closest thing he has to a kingdom. He makes deals to try and obtain power and rule. He tried this with Christ in his tempting him.
