Can Lucifer be saved

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why not pray for the soul of Satan so that he will have a chance to go to heaven though?, biblical explanation is not even a factual explanation?

Satan can be prayed for but what can you do for a person who doesn’t want to be saved and already knows that God is real he saw what God created he was so jealous and focused on his looks that it was eating him up inside to the point were he believed God shouldn’t be praised Lucifer wanted to be praised he wanted to rule and kill all the sinners all of God’s children he didn’t think of us as worthy enough to safe us from an eternity of hell. Lucifer was also jealous that God spent most of his time loving the humans instead of him or the other angels. For your question to if Satan can be saved no, the fallen angels cannot be saved. Their choice was irrevocable, equivalent to humans who die in mortal sin. Hell is permanent.

392 scripture speak of a sin of these angels. This “fall” Consist in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempters words to our first parents “you will be like God” The devil “has sinned from the beginning” He is “a liar and the father of lies”

393 it is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine Mercy, that makes the angels’ sin unforgivable. “There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death”.
 
The demons and people who die in mortal sin can be saved in the sense that God hasn’t changed his mind about them: we wants them to go to Heaven and he will always want that for all eternity.

But they won’t be saved.
 
This is our understanding of how God saves. It is not our own doing. There is no God’s part and our part. There is just God. We were dead to sin. Dead people don’t help the doctor. Richard Carlson, a New Testament professor at Lutheran Seminary, looks at the grammar of this passage to make this point. He writes:

"You have been saved by grace." Here the Greek use of a passive, perfect periphrastic participle bears comment. The use of the passive voice underscores how we are totally passive when it comes to being saved. God’s grace has accomplished our salvific reality. The use of the perfect tense and periphrastic participle emphasizes the duration of our being saved. It was accomplished in the past and remains our reality into the coming ages.

Ok, I admit, one reason that I read that was just to say, “passive perfect periphrastic participle.” But the point he is making is that the tense of the Greek indicates that our being saved happened a long, long time ago, and that it is ongoing into the far future. Our being saved, happened before we could ever have anything to do with it.

Martin Luther, in a debate with the great humanist, Erasmus, illustrated this idea another way. Erasmus pictured God’s rescue like this. It was like a mother helping a baby learn to walk. She holds the baby’s hand, steadies the baby’s little body, let’s the baby take a few unsteady steps, and then catches the baby when she falls. No, said Luther, with characteristic bluntness, it was like a caterpillar surrounded by a ring of fire. God reached down and plucked the helpless creature from certain death.

So, we don’t do anything to deserve, earn, or receive our salvation. It is by grace, it is completely not our doing. And so, if God can save us independent of our belief or actions, then why can’t God save anyone else, even non-Christians, independent of their beliefs or actions? This is why we say, yes, God can save non-Christians.

Now here’s the catch, just because God can does not mean God will or has to. we neither restrict the grace of God to those who profess explicit faith in Christ nor assume that all people are saved regardless of faith.

God is sovereign, God’s in charge, we don’t determine what God must or mustn’t do. In fact, we try to stick to the things that we know about God and what God wants from us.
 
I like ferrets as well but I also would like to say this.

Christians find parallels between other religions and their own and must approach all religions with openness and respect. Repeatedly God has used the insight of non-Christians to challenge the church to renewal. But the reconciling word of the gospel is God’s judgment upon all forms of religion , including the Christian. The gift of God in Christ is for all. The church, therefore, is commissioned to carry the gospel to all, whatever their religion may be and even when they profess none.

“The church, therefore, is commissioned to carry the gospel to all, whatever their religion may be and even when they profess none.” Just because God can save non-Christians, we are not relieved of our call to share the gospel message of love and justice with others. There is a strong Biblical message that says the job of Christians is to be bearers of good news throughout the world. We are to talk with people about our faith, sharing what God means to us, wanting others to experience the blessings and joys of faith that we have experienced. It may be possible that there are other paths to God that we don’t know about. But as long as we do know about the path that Christianity shows us to God, we are called to invite others to walk that path with us.

I think this is how we can approach Christianity. Our faith is a path to God, it is a path to salvation. There may be other paths to God, there may even be better paths to God, but this the one path we know of, and we know it will take us where we need to go. So rather than speculate on other paths that may or may not lead to God, we are called to share the one path we know for certain does lead to God.

So, can God save non-Christians? Yes. This is one of several reasons that we are called to treat other faiths and people of other faiths with respect. But this doesn’t lessen our call as Christians to share, with respect and love, that path that God has shown to us.
 
Hope8 said:
that’s exactly what I said.
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You are the who started the thread and asked in the title Can Satan Be Saved. We are simply answering your question.
No Satan can never be saved nor can anyone who is in Hell.
 
I realized you just joined, and have posted two threads on Lucifer and Satan which to me is very telling…

Your threads are a little too contrived and provoking…unless that was your intention?
 
I have been asked this and I wanted to know if my answer for those questions were correct.
 
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