smiddy: if you take notice of the JW religion it seems Satan is the one that has the upper hand.
The assumption the Jehovah has to "answer" Satan for anything, answering to a rebell, is alone stupid, likewise like that a ransom has to be paid to Satan or to an institution called "justice" or "compensation". Also that Jehovah needs a "compensation" to be paid for a sin of a man, is stupid. All these are human phantasies to exploit people to pay off a duty or guilt by endless service.
If sercive is only done to pay off something then this is not my understanding of service. Likewise if Jesus would have served only to pay off something and whould have answered Satan somehow in a "greater issue" would his service not only have been done out of calculatio an not from heart ? If God has not to answer Satan at all, why should Jesus then do it? answering Satan and take part in Satans game of thrones?
When would such an answer be sufficient, the big issue be settled? After what proof? After a "perfect mans blood" or only after enough ....say 2.000.000 blood witnesses during the centuries? After enough JW women dying, say 20.000 without blood transfusion while giving birth to a child?
Was Satan not satisfied with Jesus death already back in the Roman Era, does he need today a 21st century renewal of answering to him? Was he not be answered already by Job long before Jesus.? If Job alread gave Satan an answer in the discussion why should then Jesus later and other bloodwitnesses again and again give Satan new answers, better answers? Does the answer in the big issue not turn around "real faith" of one man (without calculatio) what already Job demonstrated? then why it is changed by Watchtower to mean that the answer in the big issue is given later with Jesus' death, but not as "real faith" but as "payment for sins" (a divine calculatio)?
Which more proof of faith is necessary then the proof already be given? The proof of a persecution in Russia? Would Satan be satisfied if I dropped dead now? There is no qualified answer to the question when Satan would be convinced that Jehovah is right and that his standards are right and how long Jehovah has to endure what Satan "hurls against him".
