Would the Serpent (Satan) have dwelled eternally on earth if the fruit was not bitten?
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Muslim here, this question revolves around a scenario pointing to an answer based on guessing, and it's not in our authority to speculate what God wrote in destiny.
Something to think about:
John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
No matter how you interpret the verse, Jesus was already destined to come for Israel before God creates Abraham, Jesus grandfather.
This means God planned the entire creation before creating Adam himself, and since the question is about Satan, you can also say the descent of Adam and Eve to the earth was also planned by God, but an atheist can snipe for a hole in this plot.
The good/evil dilemma concerns theologians and philosophers about Adam's story, an atheist presumes God doesn't like Adam by leaving Satan to take him out of Eden, so Christianity resolves this by the concept of Original Sin.
It's actually not explained in Genesis whether God promised Adam to dwell in Eden eternally or [instead] planned for Adam's descent to earth [without telling him], was God really teaching Adam about life hardships with that tree He left in Eden?
The chronological order of Genesis is:
- God created the universe [i.e. Heavens].
- God created earth, then life on it.
- God created man.
Adam's descent didn't happen due to coincidence or plan B, God destined it, and you can see that in Genesis 3:16-19, everything was put in a predetermined order for a mission Adam had to do on the earth.
With God's destiny, Adam and his descendants had free will to walk upon God's plan:
Deuteronomy 30
16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish.
So the question that Satan will have an alternative destiny will not work [no matter the proposed answer] if we can't guess what scenario did God plan to occur.
Personal advice, always avoid speculative questions, they do more harm than good.
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