[Gubei]

As with any other crucial biblical topics, the issue of Satanology seems to be so interlinked with other truths such as the Fall of man, Christology, the original sin etc in the Bible, as seen in the posts here by a lot of loving brothers and sisters. The interpretation of the Bible cannot be done away from reasoning, analogy, deducting, inducting – or collectively "thinking" unless you are claiming a direct revelation from God. In addition, It is needless to say that we have to think "critically (or logically)" to reach sound conclusions. Of course, this does not mean that only those who are able to think critically can be benefitted by reading the Bible. The opposite can be true as it is really the case with many theologians. I have long been wondering why our God didn't give us a volume of well-written systematic theology text book with which a lot of debates among Christian camps can be stopped. But He even didn't grant us the original manuscripts written by the Apostles, and on the contrary we have some different series of manuscripts – which has been causing the other issues, i.e. which manuscripts and which versions of English Bible to take. Was my God not wise to foresee this before?
After having spent so many times finding the right English Bible to anchor my belief on, I concluded that God was really great to the extent that he hided himself in the human errors. No manuscript is perfect and no human translation is perfect. But God is there speaking to those who reads it.
My curious mind had wanted to know everything on the crucial themes in the Bible with the pretext that that would be more helpful for my faith and other's. However, the more I delved into the depth of the truth, the more questions popped up in my head, leading to spiritual thirst rather than spiritual quenching. And, humbly speaking, I should confess that I am not able to present the "unquestionable orthodox doctrine" on Christian Satanology.
But I believe collaboration with seeking Christians would lead to more "life-supplying" elaboration of Satanology for me and theirs, if not perfect and it would not be so. So my starting point is this. The definition of "person." What is "person?" A person can have free will, disobey/rebel something (i.e. sin if that is against God), be punished. It seems that we human beings are persons. No arguing. Then, how about God? How about Satan? We also call God a or three person(s). And we think Satan is a person (even though he was an archangel.) Are we allowed to use the term "person" when we refer to God or Satan and, if so, by what sense? In other words, what is the dividing moment or watershed which distinguishes what is a person and what is not? (As far as I recall, Bro. Witness Lee or Bro. Nigel Tomes hasn't defined this term. Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
My tentative answer is whether an entity has freewill (or independent purpose which pleases the entity itself) or not. What do all of you think?