How many people believe the devil exists?

Question

Very Informative,Danielle S....

Answer 1

The devil's most successful trick has been persuading people that he doesn't exist. Mwahahahahaha.

Answer 2

Your question will be answered by this story:

"The professor of a university challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?" A student answered bravely, "Yes, he did".
The professor then asked, "If God created everything, then he created evil. Since evil exists (as noticed by our own actions), so God is evil. The student couldn't respond to that statement causing the professor to conclude that he had "proved" that "belief in God" was a fairy tale, and therefore worthless.






Another student raised his hand and asked the professor, "May I pose a question? "
"Of course" answered the professor.

The young student stood up and asked : "Professor does Cold exists?"
The professor answered, "What kind of question is that?...Of course the cold exists... haven't you ever been cold?"
The young student answered, "In fact sir, Cold does not exist. According to the laws of Physics, what we consider cold, in fact is the absence of heat. Anything is able to be studied as long as it transmits energy (heat). Absolute Zero is the total absence of heat, but cold does not exist. What we have done is create a term to describe how we feel if we don't have body heat or we are not hot."

"And, does Dark exist?", he continued.
The professor answered "Of course".

This time the student responded, "Again you're wrong, Sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in fact simply the absence of light. Light can be studied, darkness can not. Darkness cannot be broken down. A simple ray of light tears the darkness and illuminates the surface where the! light beam finishes. Dark is a term that we humans have created to describe what happens when there's lack of light."

Finally, the student asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?" The professor replied, "Of course it exists, as I mentioned at the beginning, we see violations, crimes and violence anywhere in the world, and those things are evil."

The student responded, "Sir, Evil does not exist. Just as in the previous cases, Evil is a term which man has created to describe the result of the absence of God's presence in the hearts of man.

After this, the professor bowed down his head, and didn't answer back.


As we have seen, God needn't have created evil in order to create the scale of goodness. God needn't have had created "darkness" as the absence of light, but merely created the possible scale of light from "blinding white light" down to "very bright" down to "white", and stopped the scale there. That God decided to continue to create "darkness" or "evil" at the bottom ends of his physical or moral scales is not a logical necessity. We do not know why God created these extreme depths nor does the existence of these scales explain why they start and end where they do. The absence theodicy does not explain why, and therefore does not answer the problem of evil: God is still best considered evil for creating evil for no logical reason. Either that or the more sensible truth we have to face is that there are no gods.

Answer 3

I do.I was in an abusive relationship.My gran was dying.I needed to leave my country,but couldnt until she had passed away.My gran died,I left him and went a few miles to stay with my mum.She had my grans ashes in the electric cupboard.(it was a locked cupboard)I was chatting to my mum in the middle of the night,when suddenly the temperature dropped.Im not making this up.A figure appeared.I couldnt see it,but my mum could.A white figure.It was just after I had said about leaving our country.It was there maybe two minutes then both of us seen a ball,white,it looked like a ball of energy,moving really fast.Then it was gone.It must have been the devil.I was a cristian for many years,things like that is the devils work.I am 100% sane.

Answer 4

Yes, he exists.
I like to keep things straight forward and simple.
Like love and hate exists , and oppose each other , in those people who allow them to live in them, so the Devil and God exist, in those who allow it.
One is the spirit of light, and king of all the good , so the other is the spirit darkness, and king of all the bad .

Answer 5

I believe in God and The evil one. Greatest thing the devil has done is make people disbelieve in devils, evil, etc.

Answer 6

There can't be a "devil".
If God is the most powerful Almighty, then it is impossible for there to be an equal opponent.

Answer 7

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist" - Keiser Sosa

Answer 8

i believe there is a devil and i also believe that there is a God who is much much stronger than the devil...

Answer 9

the name of the devil is Jesus Christ.... the mark of the beast baptism.... I know this is the FACT. you all gonna wake up with egg on your face some day.

Answer 10

Christian ideas about the devil and Satan originate in the OT. Read the following for more information:

"Here is a bit about the Jewish view of Satan, as opposed to the Christian devil. Again, Judaism has no devil, there is no embodiment of evil who tempts us, as in Christianity. The Jewish view is very different than that portrayed by Christians. I hope this will be clear by the end of this post.

"First of all, the Hebrew word satan (sin-tet-nun sofit) means an adversary or accuser. It is used this way in Numbers 22:22. 'And God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of the Lord stood in the way as an *adversary* against him....'

"The word marked with *'s and translated as adversary is satan (actually l'satan, l' being a prefix that in the context gives the meaning 'as'). Likewise in Numbers 22:32, part of the same story about Bilaam.

"In I Samuel 29:4. 'And the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make this fellow return, that he may go back to his place which you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an *adversary* to us; for how should he reconcile himself to his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?'

"Again, the word translated as an adversary is satan. Later, in II Samuel 19:23. 'And David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be *adversaries* to me?...' Again the word is satan and is translated as adversary. I could continue through the Tanach with this. In each case, the word satan is translated as adversary.

"Now, there is the term ha'satan, meaning the adversary. It is used to indicate a definite adversary. It is used in this way in the book of Zecharaih. Zecharia 3:1-2, for example, is sometimes translated as 'And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and *Satan* standing at his right hand to thwart him. And the LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebukes you, O *Satan;* the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem rebukes you. Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?' The word translated here as Satan is ha'satan. In other translations, this is translated as the adversary. In the historical context of the prophet, it is used to avoid using the name of the true adversary who was trying to keep the Jews from rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem.

"The adversary was the Samaritans and a highly placed official in the Persian government. In order to avoid reprisals, Zechariah uses the term 'the adversary' or 'the accuser' (as the Jews were accused of building the Temple in order to rebel). Now, later in Jewish history, this was interpreted in another, somewhat metaphorical level, as if a prosecuting angel of the heavenly court were accusing Joshua ha-Kohen (the priest), and not the Samaritans that the highly placed Persian official.

"The only other occurrence of ha'satan is in the book of Job. The book, first of all, is one of the Writings. It is one inspired Jews attempt to understand why bad things happen to good people. He writes a story about Job's suffering in order to explore the suffering of righteous people in general. The conclusion of his book, the moral of the story, is that only God knows why good people sometimes suffer. Satan in this book is a literary tool. That being said, out of this book arose the aggadic (kind of like legendary--there are many legends written in the Talmud to teach a lesson of one kind or another, but are not literally true) idea of Satan as the prosecuting attorney of God.

"Satan here is completely obedient to God and he NEVER rebels against God. He has a role just as does the angel of death, in God's plan. His job is to act in the heavenly court as the prosecutor of those who recently died. He is in no way evil, he just has a job that some might find distasteful. That is the aggadic idea of Satan, which no Jew is obligated to take litterally, but we are supposed to learn the lesson that all of our actions will be known to God and that we will be judged.

"The adversary in Zechariah was a very real, very human one, the adversary in Job is a teaching tool, as is the Satan of the aggadah. Humans have within them a yetzer hara and a yetzer hatov, a bad impulse and a good impulse. We need no outside, powerful, ultimate evil force to tempt us, the impulse lies within ourselves. By following God's will, we can overcome this temptation. There is no power to rival God. All angels in Judaism are obedient servants of God.

"This is in contrast to the Christian idea of the 'devil' and their 'satan'. In Christianity, 'satan, aka the devil' is viewed as the 'god of this world'. He has enormous power and he opposes God. He is seen as a 'fallen angel'.

"This brings me to the explaination of 'Lucifer'. Some say that Isaiah 14:12. 'How are you fallen from heaven, O bright star [or shining one], son of the morning [or son of dawn]! how are you cut down to the ground, you who ruled the nations!' is about the 'devil'. Part of this is due to the fact that the term bright star or shining one is translated in Latin to lucifer, which means shining one. Now, the context of the verse and a bit of knowledge of history reviels that this is about the Babylonian empire. One of the main dieties of Babylon was 'Ishtar', who was the 'god' who was the morning star. Shining one, son of dawn is the morning star. The prophet was avoiding the use of the name of the not-god Ishtar. Reading verse 4, 'That you shall take up this proverb against the **king of Babylon,** and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!', it becomes clear that this is the king of Babylon and his nation that is being spoken of here. There is no Lucifer, no devil in the Tanach, but there are many, many adversaries and accusers of the Jewish people."