Wasn’t even implying he was a rival power. He can only do what he’s allowed. Thankfully we have our free will to either reject or embrace the master of lies.
Employee? He was fired and pitched out on his head (along with his followers) so he’s one angry cat cause he already knows his fate. His focus is to take as many with him as possible to that fiery lake.
“He was fired and pitched out on his head (along with his followers) so he’s one angry cat cause he already knows his fate. His focus is to take as many with him as possible to that fiery lake.”
And here we disagree. He’s doing his job, never fired. His job is to tempt, prosecute, and carry out the punishment in the hereafter. He does a really good (ha!) job. But he is not an independent agent at all. When the time comes, he will cease to exist and be subsumed in the light of the Infinite, and he’ll rejoice.
This is saying a lot, of course. It means that Pol Pot, Hitler, Mao and Stalin are all on G-d. But if the soul is eternal and comes back many times until its entire mission is completed, that means that G-d is indebted to those who suffered, or that the suffering is a balancing of accounts for past lives.
At any rate, there is no eternal damnation and Heaven itself is just a waiting room for souls who will return at the End of Days and/or until their next reincarnation, to keep them amused in the interim. Hell is just a laundromat, and often there’s a long waiting list of those clamoring to get in and be cleansed.