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NorthernBear · 51-55, M
Like with many other mythical beings, there is more than one version of the satan. I word it the way I do because it's not really a name but an untranslated Hebrew word. In the oldest Hebrew tradition the satan was not the opposer of God but only the opposer of man, part of God's grand design. It traditional Christianity the devil does not punish people, it is God himself who punishes evil doers including the devil. The devil wants nothing to do with hell but that is where he is going. God is so loving, and so just, that he keeps fallen angels and the souls of rebellious humans alive for all of eternity just to torture them. Live 10 years, commit the same sins that other kids commit but nothing major, die before learning about Christ, and get subjected to unimaginable torture for hundreds of nonillions of millennia and beyond. Now that is love and justice!