Devil as angel

Long day, relaxing, thought popped in my head: what if the Devil is actually on the side of God, understood according to your metaphysics literally or figuratively?

Pain is necessary for growth. What if his job is to make sure things never run quite perfectly? What if his job is to force us to fight him, and so begin actively growing as souls?

In the afterlife (which I understand literally, but the symbolism is still interesting) his job is to maintain connection with lost souls through the medium of power. Evil is nothing but the desire to get and exercise power, through the infliction of pain on others. Such people would be utterly unreactive to a loving, compassionate spirit. But they would understand someone who wanted to hurt them, who dominated them.

I really think many people today would rather feel pain than emptiness. Hell is nothing but loneliness, amplified infinitely. It is being alone with every sad thought, every guilty thought, and every ounce of emotional suffering you have ever undergone, in the darkness, and with no one else within an infinite amount of distance. I have felt it in my dreams. I very literally would not wish that on the worst human being who ever lived. The pain is unimaginable. Our bodies limit it now. We can go get a drink, make a telephone call, watch a movie, or whatever. In hell, there are no escapes.

Yet into such a world can come our friend the Devil, whose role is to torment, but also to guide. Perhaps one day he can pace, pace pace, then lead lead lead souls into new realizations that get them out of his realm altogether.

Very random, but it felt true enough to take the time to type.