Do Demons Do God's Will?

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God has power over the demons and can make them do whatever He wants.
 
God is love. If eternally separated from love, one can not freely give and receive love–which is God’s will.
 
I remember being forgiven and loved and I found it extremely upsetting. I felt truly miserable that I’d sinned and yet was loved.

I wouldn’t like that feeling to last for long.
 
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TheOldColonel said:
How does separation from God make one incapable of love? Could quite the opposite be true? Could love be the very source of the suffering in Hell?
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If God is the source of all good things-- then how do you find good outside of God? Hell, by its nature, is the absence of God, just as Heaven, by its nature, is the presence of God.
 
I don’t know the role of demons in Hell. But considering that the saints were always at some point tempted/tested by demons, I’d say demons are useful to God, at least in that context.
 
Oh I’m not upset whatsoever, I take it as a compliment. It’s impossible for man to speak the language of woman. I feel ambidextrous 😎
 
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Let no man say when he is tempted that he is tempted by God.

I know that is Scripture, let me look up the chapter and verse.

ETA James Chapter 1.

God does NOT use demons to tempt people.
 
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Yet, the Baltimore Catechism states:

Q. Why did God make you?

A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him for ever in heaven.

So, is it not the nature of humans to love? Surely that nature continues in the afterlife. No?
 
Someone removed my link to Fr. Lorenzo Scupoli’s book “the spiritual combat” eh?
 
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Someone removed my link to Fr. Lorenzo Scupoli’s book “the spiritual combat” eh?
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Indeed. It appear you are correct.

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

-Ephesians 6:12
 
TheOldColonel said:
How does separation from God make one incapable of love? Could quite the opposite be true? Could love be the very source of the suffering in Hell?
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One does not need to be capable to know and understand it -and to regret the inability.
An eternity of knowing what you could be and knowing you fall short.
 
How would one lacking a capacity for love lament its absence? Indeed, would it not be more the case that its absence is preferred for such a being? But surely losing the capacity to love is not like losing and arm or leg or foot. The capacity for love is essential to the very nature of the human, immortal soul. It is the very purpose for which God made man, to love God, self and others and to be the very image of a God who is himself a community.

I believe scholastics would all agree that accidents of a soul may change, graces may be lost, but the essence of the human soul continues eternally. So, perhaps the capacity remains but is eternally unfulfilled. Love, then, becomes an eternal hunger never satiated, a fire never quenched, a longing never to be met, causing immense and endless agony of the soul.

Do human beings not already feel such pain when the object of their love is taken from them? Even in this life such loss often results in a suffocating grief which seems to envelope the bereaved in an emotional darkness which feels endless. How much more suffering would be incurred if, in the next life, the object taken away is God, forever? So, one might well presume the capacity for love, far from being absent in Hell, is the key ingredient to any suffering in the afterlife. Wouldn’t you agree?
 
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