The truth is that Satan continues to exist ONLY because it serves GOD's purpose.
What .... ? Yes, you read it correctly, for without an evil oppostion force ... another choice, namely Satan, what good would it be for GOD to give us humans a free will? By default we would all follow only GOD and GOD would never know if we wanted to do so of our own free will or not, because there would simply be NO other choice with which to exercise our free will! I simply cannot find a single reason why GOD would want to create us without a free will and thus without evil being a valid choice for us. If GOD did so, such a creation proves nothing, because GOD already would know the outcome ... we would in effect simply be totally predictable pre-programmed robots, so why bother at all? We humans understand this logic and use it all the time. For instance, we test people at school, at university, work, home, relationships etc. all the time. Imagine an exam (test) in which the answers were allways simply TRUE or FALSE (same as right and wrong and good or evil are the answers to life) but we knew ahead of time that all 100 questions always could be answered by saying TRUE (ie. no choice ... allways pre-determined). In fact, let's say you had no choice, you allways just wrote TRUE next to each question ... and you allways got 100%. Some test! Would be nice? But what would it prove? NOTHING! Why even bother testing at all. And thus is the need for Satan to exist at all! This is earth, not HEAVEN. IF you want to live somewhere where there is no Satan, no evil, no suffering, no injustice, no lies, no pain, NO BAD STUFF period do not look on earth, look to HEAVEN. If on the other hand you want only pain and suffering, injustice, lies and all else that is bad, you can find that in HELL, and that, by the way, that can start right here on earth ... while you are still alive! On the other hand, Satan, unlike GOD, is not democratic and thus Satan would deny us any choice if this were possible. Satan would have you mark FALSE for every question that should have correctly been answered TRUE and vica-versa so that we fail this test here on earth miserably, and do not go to heaven. Of course, if it were possible, Satan would destroy GOD, since GOD acts only to frustrate Satan's plans. The fact that Satan has been unable to do so is intriguing and can only mean one thing ... he cannot, for if he could have, he would have! The good news is that Satan is a defeated foe ... like the neighbourhood bully. Attempt to stand up to Satan incorrectly, and you will be badly beaten. Placate Satan and the bully will leave you some peace ... kind of ... since Satan knows you can be kicked around at will for amusement. Stand up to Satan correctly, and this bully backs off, because you have a bodygaurd that Satan is terrified of ... JESUS. If this were not so, do you think any of GOD's folks would be left alive on earth? For that matter do you think there would be still be a GOD? Would we still have two choices to follow? for there really are only two paths to travel down for folks like you and us: