Satan is God’s Shadow

As a child, I never understood why an all-powerful God couldn’t control Satan. If God is omnipotent, why allow rebellion or the corruption of humanity? It felt contradictory, like God was so fixated on His image as “all-good” that He refused to confront anything within Himself that didn’t fit that narrative.

From a Jungian perspective, this conflict isn’t surprising. Carl Jung taught that the shadow aka. the unconscious parts of ourselves we repress, must be confronted to achieve wholeness. God, as the ultimate archetype of the ego, represents the conscious mind that refuses to accept its shadow. Satan, then, isn’t an external enemy but the shadow God refuses to integrate.

Jung’s words resonate here: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

God claims to be forgiving, yet condemns sinners to Hell for following Satan. Why? Because sinners reflect the impulses God denies within Himself: rebellion, desire, chaos. Satan isn’t a separate entity; he’s the disowned part of God. Destroying Satan is impossible because you cannot destroy a part of yourself.

This might even be the hidden message of the Bible. Judgment Day isn’t about punishing humanity, it’s about God facing His own shadow. If a human can fully integrate their shadow and become whole, they ascend. Perhaps humanity’s role is to show God how to reconcile His own duality.

God and Satan aren’t opposites. They’re the same being, split by denial. To become whole, God must stop fighting His shadow and embrace it, just like you 😝

Edit : bear with me guys, I grew up in a non religious household, so my understanding of Christianity is based on what society projects