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Satan is a dandy metaphor, but I agree that the problem comes in when you try to make him a real being, and the polar opposite being to God at that.

Light exists, but not darkness. Darkness is just the absence of light.
Sound exists, but not silence. Silence is just the absence of sound.
Heat exists, but not cold, and so forth.

The fact that we can conceive of the utter absence of grace, forgiveness, and love does not mean that there is a real being characterized by those absences, any more than darkness, silence, or cold are real beings. Our conception of those absences does, though, explain our creation of a metaphor. And as is so often the case, we choose an anthropomorphic being as the image, the symbol, in the metaphor.