(April 24, 2013 at 11:30 am)paulpablo Wrote: So was satan in hell while he was tempting Christ or was that a day trip out that god allowed?
As far as I could ever tell, the Bible talks about Satan eventually being sent to Hell. But otherwise he is free to roam the world and do as much damage as he can. The Bible even indicates that he had freedom to roam in Heaven; the book of Job begins with him wandering about up there, and the book of Revelations implies that a future war in Heaven would result in Satan being cast down to Earth, never to return.
If you're wondering why the Devil is left alive after his part in introducing sin into the world, you're not alone.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
