# What if Satan Repented?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-satan-repented/855137>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 6, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-satan-repented/855137 "2020-06-06T02:03:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-satan-repented/855137/61 "2020-06-10T02:05:59Z")

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Or, y’know, put an angel with a flaming sword to guard it _before_ Adam and Eve could get at it.

(Or not create a mischievous serpent…)

Speaking, however, as a big Dante fan, I give Christianity fullest marks for high drama! The Divine Comedy makes up for a lot of the sins of the faith!

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**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-satan-repented/855137/62 "2020-06-10T02:26:40Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> It’s even stranger than that. You have to remember that according to Christian dogma, God is omniscient and exists outside of time. So he knows everything and always has known everything.
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> This means that before he had created the Tree of Knowledge, he knew that Adam and Eve would eat from it. He knew that he would punish them. And he knew that a few thousand years later, he would declare that the punishment was too severe and he would offer a pardon.
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> So why didn’t God just not create the Tree? He could have saved himself a crucifixion.

That’s what happens when a narrative is built over centuries by many people.

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-satan-repented/855137/63 "2020-06-10T07:47:32Z")

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Why did God create this world at all? It’s obviously second-rate work at best.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-satan-repented/855137/64 "2020-06-10T08:31:03Z")

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> [@DPRK](#):
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> Why did God create this world at all? It’s obviously second-rate work at best.

He’s messed it up twice so far but, y’know, third time’s the charm. As far as the OP is concerned, I don’t recall seeing anything in the Bible about avoiding prophecies by changing your ways, so _if_ your sect interprets it so that Satan gets his ass handed to him at the end of the book then, by hook or by crook, that is what is going to happen. For Satan to repent would be just as bad a rebellion against God as the first one.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-satan-repented/855137/65 "2020-06-10T18:05:13Z")

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Wasn’t this covered in the Kevin Smith documentary Dogma? That if a cast-out angle was suddenly redeemed, that would mean God is fallible and the universe would come to an end?

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