Originally Posted by
pumpkin
Michael Joseph, your screen name is my real Christian name. Anyway, IMO, God put us here for a purpose. And one must consider the fact that God also threw Satan down here with us. How better to tell someone, with true free will (to believe what he wants), than to let them realize the Truth on his own? Satan wished to be over man, so he is, but only to serve God's plan.
Ephesians 6 12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Where better to reside to be over man on earth?