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** Sort of. The ending implies that Faust was saved because, despite being satisfied at the end, he still spent his entire life striving to improve. ''"He who strives on and lives to strive / Can earn redemption still."'' So Mephistopheles' basic goal (shower Faust in so many earthly delights that he stops working to learn more and improve himself) was valid and would have presumably damned Faust if he had succeeded. His flaw was that the specific terms of the deal didn't matter - Faust wasn't judged, at the end, on whether he literally said he wanted time to stop or not, he was judged on whether he'd spent the bulk of his life striving. And he had (in fact, Mephistopheles inadvertently helped ''make'' it true.)
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** Sort of. The ending implies that Faust was saved because, despite being satisfied at the end, he still spent his entire life striving to improve. ''"He who strives on and lives to strive / Can earn redemption still."'' So Mephistopheles' basic goal (shower Faust in so many earthly delights that he stops working to learn more and improve himself) was valid and would have presumably damned Faust if he had succeeded. His flaw succeeded and Faust had, I don't know, spent a decade wallowing in a harem or a money-pit. The catch was that the specific terms of the deal didn't matter - Faust wasn't judged, at the end, on whether he literally said he wanted time to stop or not, he was judged on whether he'd spent the bulk of his life striving. And he had (in fact, Mephistopheles inadvertently helped ''make'' it true.)
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:* Sort of. The ending implies that Faust was saved because, despite being satisfied at the end, he still spent his entire life striving to improve. ''"He who strives on and lives to strive / Can earn redemption still."'' So Mephistopheles' basic goal (shower Faust in so many earthly delights that he stops working to learn more and improve himself) was valid and would have presumably damned Faust if he had succeeded. His flaw was that the specific terms of the deal didn't matter - Faust wasn't judged, at the end, on whether he literally said he wanted time to stop or not, he was judged on whether he'd spent the bulk of his life striving. And he had (in fact, Mephistopheles inadvertently helped ''make'' it true.)
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:* Sort of. The ending implies that Faust was saved because, despite being satisfied at the end, he still spent his entire life striving to improve: ''"He who strives on and lives to strive / Can earn redemption still."'' So Mephistopheles' basic goal (shower Faust in so many earthly delights that he stops working to learn more and improve himself) was valid and would have presumably damned Faust if he had succeeded. His flaw was that the specific terms of the deal didn't matter - Faust wasn't judged, at the end, on whether he literally said he wanted time to stop or not, he was judged on whether he'd spent the bulk of his life striving. And he had (in fact, Mephistopheles inadvertently helped ''make'' it true.)
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:* Sort of. The ending implies that Faust was saved because, despite being satisfied at the end, he still spent his entire life striving to improve: improve. ''"He who strives on and lives to strive / Can earn redemption still."'' So Mephistopheles' basic goal (shower Faust in so many earthly delights that he stops working to learn more and improve himself) was valid and would have presumably damned Faust if he had succeeded. His flaw was that the specific terms of the deal didn't matter - Faust wasn't judged, at the end, on whether he literally said he wanted time to stop or not, he was judged on whether he'd spent the bulk of his life striving. And he had (in fact, Mephistopheles inadvertently helped ''make'' it true.)
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:* Sort of. The ending implies that Faust was saved because, despite being satisfied at the end, he still spent his entire life striving to improve: ''"He who strives on and lives to strive / Can earn redemption still."'' So Mephistopheles' basic goal (shower Faust in so many earthly delights that he stops working to learn more and improve himself) was valid and would have presumably damned Faust if he had succeeded. His flaw was that the specific terms of the deal didn't matter - Faust wasn't judged, at the end, on whether he literally said he wanted time to stop or not, he was judged on whether he'd spent the bulk of his life striving. And he had (in fact, Mephistopheles inadvertently helped ''make'' it true.)
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* God could never actually lose his wager with Mephistopheles. At the end of the day, it is God himself who decides who gets redeemed and who doesn't. So Mephistopheles' bet that he could tempt Faust into squandering his eternal salvation would have required God agreeing on objective criteria as to ''when'' Faust's salvation would be considered forfeit.
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* God could never actually lose his wager with Mephistopheles. At the end of the day, it is God himself who decides who gets redeemed and who doesn't. So Mephistopheles' bet that he could tempt Faust into squandering his eternal salvation would have required God agreeing on objective criteria as to ''when'' Faust's salvation would be considered forfeit.forfeit.
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* God could never actually lose his wager with Mephistopheles. At the end of the day, it is God himself who decides who gets redeemed and who doesn't. So Mephistopheles' bet that he could tempt Faust into squandering his eternal salvation would have required God agreeing on objective criteria as to ''when'' Faust's salvation would be considered forfeit.
