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Originally Posted by djohnson
Setting aside biotheology I'm not convinced Satan is omnipresent in the first place. How could he dwell in so many people at once?
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While I'm not sure if I agree with Lee or Tomes on this issue, I would like to point out that Lee's teaching about this had an important element which I think has been missing from this debate. He felt Satan's injecting of his nature into humanity was ultimately a huge mistake on Satan's part. By placing something of himself into mankind, the Satanic nature, could now be destroyed on the cross. Christ, in putting on the flesh, took on this human nature which, though Satan had no place in him, was in the line of Adam.
I have pondered this point many, many times. I liken Satan's blunder in Eden to the sacrifice a chess player may make of a pawn (or two, in this case). Among true chess masters, no loss of a piece is without a price. Satan must have pondered this fresh young pair, placed in such a vulnerable state. Hence he comes with questions, not sure, I think, of who exactly they were. When they bit, he experienced the momentary rush of joy in capturing two pieces.
But the Lord is a master chess player as well. The price was to be paid later and in another grand sacrifice, the queen, as it were. Satan again was puzzled by the appearance of something new -- Jesus Christ -- and again approached him with questions. He examined this one for three years or more. Finally he determined that God had made a mistake, a colossal one this. So he had him crucified. Oh, how the demons and fallen angels must have been high-fiving it as the nails went in.
But then, like all chess players who have taken the queen thinking it a brilliancy, only to find ... oops. At what point Satan and his minions realized their horrible mistake, I know not. Surely by the resurrection, they were clear.
Well, this meandering exposition is meant to point out that Lee's view that Satan was injected into man's flesh wasn't just for the heck of it. It was ultimately the trapping of Satan so that he could be destroyed on the cross.
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