Why doesn't God just finish off the devil?

Many of us may have struggled with this question. Why doesn’t God just finish off the Devil once and for all and be done with it? Wouldn’t that end all of God’s as well as our problems once and for all? However, even after the ultimate defeat at Armageddon, the devil is just bound in chains and finally pushed into the bottomless pit. Doesn’t that raise the possibility of him coming back to haunt us, and God, again?

One possibility is that both God and the Devil are two powerful, immortal energies with different, diametrically opposite powers. God has the power to give or create life but cannot take life. The Devil, on the other hand, cannot create life but has the power to give death. Naturally, we call the former a positive power and the latter a negative or evil power. This could also be the reason why it’s said that it’s impossible for God to do anything evil.


Now both God and the Devil are in an eternal struggle for supremacy. Since God has the power to create life, he has a significant advantage and so the balance of power is in his favor. And to ensure that this remains the status quo God continues to work on strengthening himself by using his power to create beings like himself. This explains why God created man, a being he hoped will remain faithful to him and support him in his battle.


The Devil, of course, is not one to give up so easily. And he has an eternity on his side to continue trying out different tactics that could possibly tilt things in his favor. After all, God won’t kill or destroy him, and he is not about to kill himself or self-destruct. But this also means that for him to become more powerful, he needs the life God created to work on his side or at least he has to make sure that the life creating process God set in motion is kept under control, and if possible tilted in his own favor. After all, he has to win just once. 

And that technically speaking would be the beginning of the end of the life as well as the universe as we know it. This is also the reason why we humans should be concerned enough to make sure we are fighting on the side that means well for us in the long run. Imagine what would our lives have been like today if the Nazis or the communists had won the war and taken over the world? Now extrapolate from that thought, and you will get a glimpse into what life would be like under the Devil’s rule. 

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