So the only punishment Satan ever got from God, was banishment. Which is weird because God created him and knew this would happen.. anyway..
There is no other punishment for Satan, if you even call that a punishment.
But this loving God will punish his creation, that he supposedly loves, while not punishing Satan? He punished the tempted, not the tempter...
Doesnt that seem a bit messed up to you?
Can anyone explain this?
In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we believe that the intelligence of man has always existed. It was not created or made, neither indeed can be. We also believe that the elements in the universe are also self-existent.
Doctrine and Covenants 93:29,33
29 Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be.
33 For man is spirit. The elements are eternal, and spirit and element, inseparably connected, receive a fulness of joy;
Through the process of procreation through an immortal being who is known as God the Father, the inseparable union of intelligence and element have been formed into an immortal spirit that can never be annihilated. All of our spirits are immortal and can never be annihilated. Once a being is resurrected, his physical body will become immortal can never be destroyed. Thus God's creations can never be completely destroyed. God created all things spiritually before he created them naturally upon the earth.
Moses 3:4-5
4 And now, behold, I say unto you, that these are the generations of the heaven and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that I, the Lord God, made the heaven and the earth,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew. For I, the Lord God, created all things, of which I have spoken, spiritually, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth. For I, the Lord God, had not caused it to rain upon the face of the earth. And I, the Lord God, had created all the children of men; and not yet a man to till the ground; for in heaven created I them; and there was not yet flesh upon the earth, neither in the water, neither in the air;
Our spirits are immortal and upon all mankind's resurrection our bodies will also become immortal to never die again. So if God created us to eventually be immortal, both spirit and body, then what punishment other than banishment from heaven would you expect? As D&C 93:33 above states, spirit and element inseparably connected is capable of receiving a fullness of joy. In our premortal existence as the spirit children of God the Father, our spirits were formed by bringing together self-existing spirit matter with self-existing intelligence to form our immortal spirits in the very image of God the Father and Jesus Christ. Our spirits are the very literal immortal offspring of God the Father.
Acts 17:28-29
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
Hebrews 12:9
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
The second death is a banishment of a spirit to a kingdom or world without glory. It is also known as Outer Darkness or Perdition. It has been likened to a lake of fire and brimstone where worm never dieth. This is the punishment of Satan and his angels and all those who give themselves over to the devil in this life. It is the ultimate punishment of the wicked and is the worst possible punishment. All others will find themselves in a kingdom of glory. Those who choose righteousness and truth will go to the highest of kingdoms where God himself resides known as the kingdom of heaven or the Celestial Kingdom.
So basically, most all of us will not suffer the same damnation as Satan and his angels who rebelled against God in the War in Heaven. They will go to kingdoms of glory depending on how they fair in the day of judgement. (see
Doctrine and Covenants 76)
