Who said that Christ offered himself to the devil, or that He destroyed the devil? Satan had kidnapped man and made him a slave to sin and a subject of eternal death. That is how we were held ransom by him. God decided that through the atonement and the substitution of an innocent victim to take the place of the guilty kidnapped race He would free it from Satan, legally evicting him, and restoring man's dominion, as to carry on God's eternal purpose for mankind. Christ's death on our behalf paid our ransom in full, and Satan had no more claim on us. (The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord).
Satan is alive and well and deceiving as many as possible before his time is up. Christ's finished work on our behalf is only available to THOSE WHO WILL CLAIM IT FOR THEMSELVES. If one refuses that, then the wages of sin is death. Satan will be destroyed after the 1000year reign of Christ, but as of now, he is roaming about, seeking those who he can destroy..
If God the Father had to raise Jesus from the dead, then Jesus was no God. The Church corrects Paul in the Creed where it says that Christ "rose on the third day" not that he was "raised on the third day".
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and shalt believe in thine heart that GOD HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, thou shalt be saved." (Rom. 10:13).
That what my Bible says...
AMEN!!