I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but this is a public service announcement. You cannot sell your soul to the devil because you do not own the intellectual property rights to it. It is not yours to sell.
You are a created being who does not own the rights to your dna, your design, or your soul. You were also ransomed after once being stolen, bought and paid for in full on the cross. It was a done deal, finished long before you were even born. So you have already been created, and then claimed and taken back.
In fact, if you do try to sell you soul to the devil, you are actually committing an act of fraud. You are attempting to sell stolen property. It is mildly amusing to think of the devil being cheated and conned by your foolishness and lack of understanding, so no worries. One need not ever feel bad about cheating the devil.
God owns ALL the intellectual property rights to each of us. In His graciousness, He has given us freewill, but that does not mean He has surrendered His claim on us. In fact, the precise opposite. In the Bible He declares many times, “I will never leave you or forsake you” and “you are mine.” Even when the devil decided to dink around with Job, he had to ask permission first and God set ALL the ground rules.
The devil also cannot share power with anyone. He comes ONLY to steal, kill, and destroy. Please do not think he offers some kind of alternative dark kingdom or something, as if someone will be given a dominion of hell to rule over or something. He is an abyss corroding into himself, like a vacuum. There is no “dark kingdom.” God and the devil are not equals, the devil is also a created being who answers to his Creator.
Now, one can certainly bring upon one’s own head a world of misery, hurt, and suffering by inviting in dark things! Evil is not unlike what you see in old vampire movies, it must wait patiently at your window, until you give it permission to enter and unlatch the window. It cannot cross your thresh hold without an invitation, even if you leave the door open. True story, this is why imaginary vampires always stand in the doorway and eerily go, May I come in?
No, no you may not. Begone. It’s that simple.
God has already pre-calculated in the human propensity for assorted foolishness when He saved us. Therefore if you ever went down to the crossroads in Georgia and “sold your soul to the devil,” it was a meaningless transaction in a legal sense. It is a fraudulent contract. It is a forgery. A trick, a deception. It has no actual legal bearing on anything. You simply committed an act of fraud.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
Amen!!
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Yes indeed! Yayy, Jesus! 🙂
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This is a powerfully presented viewpoint. I love it.
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Thank you, Oneta. 🙂
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Well said ! Hallelujah !
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Amen! It is good news.
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Have to disagree and say this is an errant take on the situation. And I only do so because it is very imporant. Nothing that happened during the Crucifixion and Resurrection ever had anything to do with claiming or obtaining ‘ownership’ of a single human soul. A core essence of Christianity is its unyielding respect for human freedom. No compulsion. The deed at Golgotha did have very much to do with securing a permanent pathway for the redemption (so called salvation) of human souls… but it is entirely incumbent upon the individual human itself to comprehend the Christ and take that pathway. In fact, a good way to identify a Christian impulse in this confusing world is to test whether it carries any element of compusion or prodding or seduction in it. If it issues from Christ, it completely forever holds as sacred human spiritual choice.
To claim that such a choice is already accomplished or non-existent is to basically misunderstand all of Creation, and by the way, to encourage the suffering of people under a delusion. Because humanity was created as an experiment in spiritual freedom, with the intent that souls would of their own volition decide to re-embrace their spiritual reality and true natures. Christ is the method for this. But to imagine one is already saved is inaccurate and dangerous. Comforting I guess, if someone wants to shy away from confronting reality. This illustrates a very big problem flowing from institutionalized religious dogma. It also highlights the fallacy and danger surrounding the belief that people have one and only one (this present) life to accomplish all this crucial transformation. This devilry forces some people into an abbreviated “decision process” because they fear irreversible damnation — without, of course, having a clue what that even means.
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I knew someone would come along and disagree with me. 🙂
There’s a couple of problems that pop out at me. First of all you said, “it is entirely incumbent upon the individual human itself to comprehend the Christ and take that pathway.” Well, we know that’s not true because babies, small children, the mentally deficient, are incapable of comprehending the Christ. Actually, none of us are capable of comprehending Him fully. If salvation was entirely incumbent upon our ability to comprehend things, we’d be doomed.
Second of all, “we love because He first loved us.” He initiates the relationship, we respond. The Bible says, “I stand at the door and knock.” Freewill is not the same thing as absolute power. We do have freewill…but there are still limits. Freewill is much like being fish in an aquarium, we are free to roam the whole “ocean” to our heart’s content and to make our own choices. That does not mean we now own the whole living room.
Jesus does “hold sacred human spiritual choice,” however the Bible also tells us, “while you were yet sinners, Christ died for you.” He didn’t consult with us first, He didn’t wait for us to repent. In fact, many of us weren’t even born yet.
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Now that’s what I call Reformed theology. Seriously.
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Ha! It really is, isn’t it? Thank you, Hat. I appreciate that.
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Two things children under a certain age do not got to hell because they are below the age of accountability and the same for those adults who have mental disabilities. We have to be old enough to accept and understand the gift of salvation. The other thing is something I heard recently was a child asked a man why does God send people to hell. He answer God does not send people to hell they were already headed there. This is the truth before accepting salvation we were all once heading there.
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One of the inevitable consequences of not having God in your life, is that you have chaos and mankind is soon turned over to our passions. Sin rules over us. We can see this happening in the world all around us right in the here and now. It’s not as if God has to do anything or send anyone to hell, we create it for ourselves.
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According to the Bible hell was originally made for the angels that sinned against God. Matthew 25:41: Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. As hard as life can be on earth it is nothing compared to eternal fire. Mankind has condemned themselves sin the first sin and unless you accept salvation you will go to hell that is what the Bible says. Yes, those that are degenerate make for themselves a certain amount of hell here and now, but this a walk in the park to what will come to them without salvation.
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Gabrielle, John 1:12 says “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God- children not born of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.”
John 3:18 “Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”
You are correct. . . You cannot sell your soul to the devil.
He already has you.
You must be redeemed.
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I think there is often all this fear within the Christian world, fear and a need for control. We start to believe that our faith is entirely in our own hands. We often miss the significance of John 1:1. That passage seems to indicate that God had a plan in the beginning, we were redeemed a few thousand years ago, we are currently being redeemed, and some day in the future we shall be redeemed. We human people tend to believe, “well I was saved when I responded to an altar call in jr high,” as if we are in charge of the whole deal and fully responsible for our own salvation simply because we have made the right choice at one moment suspended in time. I like how the Bible reminds us, well congratulations, “even the demons believe.”
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Yes, yes, yes. He has to “ignite the fire before it can burn within”. . . (Keith Green)
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Amen!
Ha! This all reminds me of when I was a child hearing about when cavemen invented fire. Kind of pedantic of me, but we people didn’t actually “invent” the fire.
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I don’t mean he has you. Yikes!
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LOL! No worries, Randy.
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