[quote]If Lucifer/Satan is the bad guy who hates God, why does he punish people who God rejects? Isn’t that counter intuitive?[/quote] Satan doesn’t punish anyone. Satan doesn’t rule over hell. Hell is actually the the English translation of Hades and Gehenna. Hades is the underworld, but Gehenna, the lake of fire, is where all those wicked will eventually end up, if I remember correctly. There’s also the abyss where some fallen angels are currently imprisoned that will be released for a time onto the Earth during the End Times. Satan and his demons roam the earth. It is their goal to turn Humans, who are the children of God and made in God’s image, against God. God designed the universe and everything in it to function at its optimum according to the parameters and functions He designed them to be. Satan and all those who oppose God, seek to prove God wrong and try to twist the world and people to their own designs, under their own self-delusion that it’ll be fine, when in reality it just causes more destruction to how things and peoplewere designed by God to function. So basically, sin is the falling short of your potential. Satan, the fallen angels, and the demons are all doomed to end up in Gehenna. Humans, who are all fallen, who reject God’s redemption for them through Jesus Christ, and only Jesus Christ, will, unfortunately and to God’s sadness, be also placed into Gehenna. The fires of Gehenna may be literal, or metaphorical, or both to what they experience. God is so holy, that He is described as an all consuming fire. If there is sin in you, you can’t bear that holiness, like paper to a flame. When you become holy through Jesus, cleansed of sin, perhaps you attain a state that you are not burned, because you are also in a holy state. God only knows and we’ll all find out at the end of all things.

In original Hebrew mythology, there wasn't one Satan. A satan was a type of angel that was basically a prosecuting attorney against your soul when you died. It told God all your sins and tried to keep you out of heaven. Eventually, it changed into a single being that we call Lucifer or Satan.

<Maybe he doesn't punish them and that's merely a lie to deceive people. Maybe Heaven and Hell are great places, just for different people. It's Purgatory that's the real hell.>

He doesn't he suffers with them in hell. Even worse is that he thinks everyone else deserves it except for him, despite experiencing the same torture.

He doesn't punish them, he drags them down to his level

He’s not the one doing the punishing. And God doesn’t hate anyone. Satan is in hell as a result of rebelling against god (that’s kinda what sin is, rebelling against Gods commands but that’s a whole other theological thread). And he doesn’t hate god either. [spoiler]>Tfw I know more about Christian doctrine then I do my own religion [/spoiler]

I think he is just really old and likes to live somewhere really hot.

They can't even prove any of that crap is true. How do you expect them to try to explain the whole "hell" scenario. And there's this...... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/3/30/17179952/pope-francis-hell-vatican-interview-scalfari-italian

I thought i was the one who made these threads

It is because Satan was gay!

Not religious but I like to think of it like a food chain Satans at the top We’re at the bottom

Gotta watch out for those Satan worshippers.

God doesn't reject people, people reject God, and thus go to hell. Those that "aren't ready" yet, wander purgatory. Satan hates humanity because God chose them over the angels.

inb4 bc he hates all