Well stated, KSA. I agree 100%. The part about Eve sinning before she ate the fruit is a very strong point. And you are right, we can play with metaphors all day long and it means little. Lee's satanology is totally based on a metaphor, on the word "dwell," when Paul said that nothing good dwells in his flesh, implying something personified. That's pretty weak gruel, to use another metaphor.
And again, as Ohio said, Lee is probably, with his accounting mind, trying to "balance" the account. God lives in us, so Satan must also. Pleasingly symmetrical, but the Bible does not tell us to find symmetry wherever we can.
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