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Originally Posted by Evangelical
The transfer of dominion from man to Satan is not really taught in Scripture.
This CARM article explains why and includes scripture that teaches the dominion has always belonged to God:
https://carm.org/adam-fall-dominion |
Evangelical, in the future if you decide to commit yourself to a certain position then please finish in your own words rather than always deferring to links or appealing to authorities. It shows you really just look to out argue an opponent rather than having a genuine concern for the truth of scripture. It's easy to copy and paste, anyone can do that. Pigeon chess comes to mind.
The simple fact that at Christ's tempting Satan showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time and said to him, 'All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them:
for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou wilt worship me all shalt be thine.' (Luke 4:5-7), shows that Satan couldn't have offered Christ what wasn't his to begin with otherwise there wouldn't have been no bases for Christ to potentially sin in the first place.
And then there is 2 Corinthians 4:4;
"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not........."
Again, God establishes ALL powers on earth (Romans 13:1). If Satan is "ruler of this world", it implies God allowed him to establish it. Nothing was taken from God that wasn't allowed by him in the first place.
Satan is a thief relative to man but not God. Satan did not "usurp" as Lee or the commentators put it or take anything by force. Instead by sin, he subjected man to himself and with that, man's dominion. Force was not involved in any way, man sinned willfully.
As long as man is subject to sin, he is subject to Satan. Therefore, if fear and terror come through sin and creation is subject to it, it follows that creation is subject to Satan. This is the conclusion the apostles reached otherwise they wouldn't have called Satan "god of this world".