2006-07-22 04:26:08 · 8 answers · asked by gasp 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You have to remember that Satan was created. He is not equal with God. Satan would be equal with Michael the Archangel. The Bible describes Satan as being beautiful with a beautiful voice. Ezk. 28 Satan had free will as we do, and he hated humans, so he decided to try to wreck Gods creation. As far as Job is concerned, Satan said to God that if God destroyed everything Job had, Job would curse God. God said go ahead and see what Job will do but do not kill him. So Job went through all of these horrible things, but never did he curse God. Do you remember the end of the story? Job was rewarded ten fold.
2006-07-22 04:41:49 · answer #1 · answered by sunny 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most people do not follow God, so Satan thought that if God did not protect Job, then Job would forsake God and would be Satan's.
It must have been the same thing for Jesus. Satan actually had a chance to get Jesus to sin (otherwise why would Satan try).
2006-07-22 06:19:11 · answer #2 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.
The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of God plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.
Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.
Oddly, proof for The Christian satin/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.
Other hints about satins role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the satin idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.
Love and blessings
don
2006-07-22 10:36:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Analogy-You have an old car the radiator leaks and the windshield wipers don't work.Your new car has not arrived at the car-lot yet.Do you use the old unreliable car to get to work or do you lose your job?
Satan too is Gods creation and though he believes he is equal to God he is not,he still is but a tool if God wishes it so.
2006-07-22 04:46:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Job really wanted Job to deny God. Satan was hoping he would convince Job to deny God and wind up in hell. He was not successful because Job remained true to God.
2006-07-22 04:35:04 · answer #5 · answered by LARRY S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan WAS one of the most beautiful angels in heaven his name then was Lucifer but he was ignorant and decide he was better than God so he got kicked out of heaven along with some other angels that now are called demons
2006-07-22 05:06:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God knew that he could show Satan that he was wrong - and he did.
2006-07-22 04:31:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
somebody have to be the bad guy and somebody must be the loser...so i guess god is the superhero aka superman
2006-07-22 04:32:27 · answer #8 · answered by ryan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋