Why do God and Satan hate each other?

Answer 1

In both religious traditions, the conflict between God and Satan is symbolic of the struggle between good and evil, righteousness and sin, and obedience and rebellion. It's important to remember that these narratives are elements of religious mythology and serve to convey moral and theological lessons rather than portraying literal interpersonal hatred between divine beings. you can download "The One bible App" on your phone to know more about The Bible.

Answer 2

"Hate" may be the word to use for Satan's regard for God... but not God toward Satan. When God made the angels [among whom was the powerful archangel, Lucifer]... IT WAS PERFECT, as everything God does is Perfect:

"Then God looked over all He had made, and He saw that IT WAS EXCELLENT IN EVERY WAY..." (Gen.1:31 NLT New Living Translation).

God told Job that the initial creation of the universe was a happy occasion in which all the angels rejoiced:

"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you know so much. Do you know how its dimensions were determined and who did the surveying? What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone as THE MORNING STARS sang together and ALL THE ANGELS SHOUTED FOR JOY?" (Job 38:4-7 NLT)

Our nature, flesh and blood, being naturally selfish and rebellous toward authority, plays right into that of the "acquired wickedly selfish, rebellious personality" of Satan the Devil -- who is not flesh and blood but SELF-CONSUMED and SELF-PERVERTED SPIRIT.

And unlike flesh and blood man, who is made of "mouldable, changeable clay," into which God forms "one spirit, each" [see Zech.12:1], and who can "repent," change his mind and attitude... and, according to the Scriptures, even HAVE HIS VERY NATURE CHANGED BY GOD [see I Cor.15:51] -- the angels, however, to whom God also gave the free-will to choose the path they would take [a path of obedience or disobedience to God's laws; disobedience to which is the definition of "SIN" - see I John 3:4]: once angels have chosen their path [of obedience or disobedience to God's laws]... they cannot change.

So, did Satan choose the path of disobedience to God's laws and became the first "sinner" in the universe.

"You were in Eden, the Garden of God. Your clothing was adorned with every precious stone... all beautifully crafted for you and set in the finest gold. They were given to you ON THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED. I ordained you and anointed you as the MIGHTY ANGELIC GUARDIAN... YOU WERE BLAMELESS in all you did FROM THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED until THE DAY EVIL WAS FOUND IN YOU. Your great wealth FILLED YOU WITH VIOLENCE, and YOU SINNED. So I banished you from the Mountain of God. I expelled you, O Mighty Guardian, from your place among the stones of fire. Your heart was filled with pride because of your beauty. YOU CORRUPTED YOUR WISDOM for the sake of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth and exposed you to the curious gaze of kings." (Ezek.28:13-17 NLT)

God does not hate Satan any more than a father can hate a son or any child who disobeys him. The father, and everyone else in the family, are HEART-BROKEN by the evil path the son has taken. The path of disobedience is a hurtful and destructive one to EVERYONE! The sinner puts himself on a self-destructive path that only leads to misery, pain and suffering, that affects all.

Just as Satan's rebellion against God's Government in the beginning caused a major disruption throughout the universe [look at the battlefield of outer space with its dead planets devoid of life and the floating space debris. Read again Genesis 1:2 of how the earth became "without form and void;" a ruined, vacuous mess, devoid of life] -- so, has the subsequent collective sins of man's generations resulted in this polluted, dying planet that we have made under the wicked, guiding hand of Satan the Devil... the "god of this world."

Satan was already here on the earth... and was already Satan, the battle-defeated adversary of God, when the first woman God created met him.

Satan and his demons were already cast down and "imprisoned here on earth awaiting their trial for their sins on Judgment Day" [see Jude 1:6 & II Peter 2:4] before God re-made the earth in Genesis 1 to support life and sustain man, the future Children and Family of God, created in His image.

By then, the battle for the universe had already been won:

"Then there was war in heaven. Michael and the angels under his command fought the Dragon [Satan; see verse 9] and his angels. And the Dragon lost the battle and was forced out of heaven." (Rev.12:7-8 NLT)

Contrary to popular false religious beliefs... God and Satan aren't fighting with each other for supremacy over mankind [mankind in general thinks way too highly of himself]. God is "allowing" Satan and his demons to TEACH man how awful... how horrifying, terrifying, and deadly Satan's destructive path of "sin" [disobedience to God's Commandments] is.

It's being written in the misery, suffering, blood and death of the deceived generations of man. If man is to learn the Perfect, Righteous, Loving, Giving, Merciful, Graceful, Caring, Happy, eccstatically Joyous ways of his Father in heaven... he also has to learn the miserable, poverty-stricken, uncaring, hateful, jealous, envious, greedy, self-serving, murderous, thieving, disloyal, negligent, lying ways of "the god of this world" that he chose to worship and obey in the Garden of Eden.

God doesn't hate Satan. He hates what Satan has done. A father doesn't hate his disobedient children... he hates the suffering and misery to themselves and everyone else, brought about by their disobedient attitudes and works.

Disobedience requires A PENALTY -- DEATH! And the ONLY CURE FOR DEATH is TO OBEY THE LAW! To "live WITHIN the law" [there is no law against keeping the law; there is no law against Obedience; there is no law against Loving and Caring about others]. But living above the law or without the law [lawlessness] puts one UNDER the penalty of the law for disobedience to it. And God is working on that cure for His future Children, mankind, created in His image.

Before God is done with His creation... He's going to "write His laws in the hearts and minds of His Children"... so that they won't even THINK ABOUT DISOBEDIENCE.

"...this is the New Covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that Day, says the LORD: 'I will put My Laws in their minds so they will Understand them, and I will write them on their hearts so they will Obey them. I will be their God, and they will be My People. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their family, saying, 'You should know the LORD.' For everyone, from the least to the greatest, WILL ALREADY KNOW ME. And I will forgive their wrongdoings, and I will never again remember their sins." (Heb.8:10-12 NLT)

God doesn't hate Satan -- He hates what Satan has done. Satan sinned, first... and God cannot look upon sin. He cannot abide it. He cannot allow it to live.

But God can take advantage of Satan's rebellion and allow him a set period of time to teach His children all about sin. To let them experience the distinction between good and evil. Think of it as Satan's puting in "community service" until his trial comes up on the docket.

Of course, man says that "if God exists"... He wouldn't let the suffering and misery on this earth to happen. But it's something that MUST HAPPEN if man is to learn the lesson of Life. There IS good and there IS evil; and man must learn to WILLINGLY CHOOSE WHAT IS RIGHT AND REJECT WHAT IS WRONG [see Isa.7:15].

God reveals to man that the "end of the age" is approaching; a conclusion to His plan: a running out of the allotted time He's given to man to learn life's lessons regarding good and evil. There will be a test at the end of the lesson, called Judgment Day, in which we'll all be graded according to our works, which will be measured against what is written in the Books of the Bible:

"...And the dead were Judged according to the things written in the books, according to what they had done." (Rev.20:12 NLT)

God doesn't hate Satan. He merely cannot allow sin [disobedience] to go on forever... and He is presently working on removing it from existence:

"...the fact is that Christ has been raised from the dead. He has become the First of a Great Harvest of those who will be raised to Life again. So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, Adam, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man, Christ... But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised First; then WHEN CHRIST COMES BACK, all His people will be raised.

"After that THE END WILL COME, when He will turn the Kingdom of God over to God the Father, HAVING PUT DOWN ALL ENEMIES OF EVERY KIND. For Christ must reign until He humbles ALL HIS ENEMIES beneath His feet. And THE LAST ENEMY TO BE DESTROYED IS DEATH." (I Cor.15:20-26 NLT)

God hates death... and "sin" that causes death. And because of this... God is going to remove Satan... and sin... and death... and everyone and every thing that causes and embraces evil, from the earth, where He has temporarily imprisoned Satan and sin and death, until Judgment Day:

"...then at last the Scriptures will come true: Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? For SIN IS THE STING THAT RESULTS IN DEATH, and the law gives sin its power. How we thank God, who gives us victory over sin and death through Jesus Christ our LORD! So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and steady, always enthusiastic about the LORD's work, for you know that nothing you do for the LORD is ever useless." (verses 54-58)

Satan and his angels are "spirit beings" that cannot die. They will suffer in eternal torment when they are finally banished [eternally disembodied] into outer darkness. But wicked mortal men who shall choose to embrace the iniquity taught to them by Satan and his demons... those who shall "thumb-their-noses in the face of God in the Judgment... shall be Mercifully burned up and out of their misery and suffering that their sins have caused to themselves and others.

The vast majority of deceived mankind, however, who never knew the Truth of God in this life, but shall have it revealed to them on Judgment Day, will cry out to Christ for His Mercy and Forgiveness -- and have Salvation and Eternal Life granted to them.

"You will look back at all your sins and hate yourselves because of the evil you have done. YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD, O people of Israel, when I HAVE HONORED MY NAME by TREATING YOU MERCIFULLY IN SPITE OF YOUR WICKEDNESS, says the Sovereign LORD." (Ezek.20:43-44 NLT)

God doesn't hate Satan... or man. He hates the misery, suffering and death that Satan has created... and that we bring upon ourselves through the sins and wicked deeds that Satan, this world's god, has taught us. So, the Family of God [the Father, the Son and all those whom He has been calling out of the world to train to rule the coming restoration of God's Kingdom to this earth with Christ] has been in the process of correcting the effects of Satan's original disobedience and subsequent rebellion against His Universal Government.

It's a "necessary evil" that must appertain until the Day of Judgment, so that man might obtain a well-rounded education in life. Even Jesus Christ had to be subjected to Satan's ministry for a time in order to learn obedience. He had to undergo the trial as OUR EXAMPLE to endure and overcome evil.

"While Jesus was here on earth, He offered prayers and pleadings, with a loud cry and tears, to the One [His Father in heaven] who could deliver Him out of death. And God heard His prayers because of His reverence for God. So even though Jesus was God's Son, HE LEARNED OBEDIENCE from the things He suffered. In this way, God qualified Him as a Perfect High Priest, and He became the source of Eternal Salvation FOR THOSE WHO OBEY HIM." (Heb.5:7-9 NLT)

Hatred is the fruit of sin... along with jealousy, envy and greed. Hatred is the tool of Satan. Satan Hates... and teaches man to hate.

It's God who LOVES... AND TEACHES MAN TO LOVE.

"We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know they are good for us - they help us learn to endure. And endurance develops strength of character in us, and character strengthens our confident expectation of Salvation. And this expectation will not disappoint us. For we know HOW DEARLY GOD LOVES US, because He has given us the Holy Spirit to FILL OUR HEARTS WITH HIS LOVE." (Rom.5:3-5 NLT)