Satan: Part of God's Plan or a Rebellious Employee?

If God created everything, Satan is part of the plan too

If God is the creator of everything that exists, the devil is, by definition, an employee. The logic is stubborn: an all-encompassing divine plan turns Lucifer's rebellion into a script written by God himself. Theology has spent twenty centuries twisting itself into knots to make sense of it, and every attempt opens a new rift.

The free will paradox

The crux lies in freedom. If angels received the same gifts as human creation, Lucifer could have defied his father's rules. But some go further: if the Apocalypse is written and its unfolding is known in advance, no decision matters. Fate works like a video game; whoever programs it already knows how the game ends.

The opposing position holds that Satan is not an idea created by God: the dual nature of the physical world is intrinsic to itself. Darkness exists because it has to exist, just as you can't sustancia ilegal a dozen eggs without some losing the omelette. God doesn't help the poor or prevent wars, simply because he is not a superhero within his own creation.

The devil as a necessary evil

The doubt resurrects dualism: without darkness, how would we recognize the light? Good and evil would be two sides of the same duality, like 1 and 0, like false and true. Some go further and revive the Cathar heresy, which considered all matter the devil's creation and saw the world as a hell. If that fits a creator God, the explanation requires quite a stretch of the catechism.

Popular culture has explored this with more freedom than theologians. The series "30 Coins" antiestéticatures a group within the Vatican that helps Satan because he is part of the divine plan. The film "Brimstone and Treacle" shows a demon presenting himself as providential help to a Christian family in order to finish off their destruction. It is no coincidence that these fictions resonate with audiences: they turn abstract evil into a character with an agenda.

The plan is already drawn up

Leo Zagami, a self-proclaimed former member of Guasonic circles, sums it up in a video: we are all emanations of God and we choose to serve the light or the darkness, but the plan has already been drawn up by God. The statement disables free will entirely. If evil is coordinated and has more power than good, as some analyses observe in Spanish politics, it would not be a defeat: it would be part of the script.

The theological question remains open, and that is where all the conspiracy slips in. If Satan is part of the plan, the great tribulation is not a punishment but a formality. If he is not, the almighty has lost control. Neither answer is reassuring. And in the meantime, the mystery will keep feeding apocalypses, TV series and YouTube videos like the ones that turned this reflection into material for sleepless nights.