Could some of the devil's evil be neccessary?

Question

I'm not trying to be funny. If you don't believe in biblical things, please don't be rude to your answering. Thanks, I just want to know how you feel.

Answer 1

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 satan/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 Satan’s 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 Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 2

i'm undecided what you recommend by using "needed". Believes take place because of fact human beings think of they wisely describe the way the international looks to them, no longer because of fact a perception is needed or pointless. additionally you're saying that "Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are probable the only religions on the instant that carry forth approximately an evil entity." nicely you only named the three maximum foundational, best, and considerable religions interior the international my pal. additionally, there are lots of African and local American religions that have self belief in evil spirits. 2d, there are a number of in Judaism and Christianity ( i do no longer understand approximately islam) that don't think the devil is a "fallen angel" who lives interior the middle of the earth as you place it. third, you do have a solid factor with reference to the scapegoat element. There could be a bent accountable the devil for "tempting" you. yet Christianity has under no circumstances laid the blame for the evil we do on the ft of the devil. Christianity has an rather rich historic previous of believing you're accountable on your movements. you ought to discover the writings of Rene Girard of interest. he wrote lots approximately how human beings scapegoat, or shift the blame onto somebody else. type his call into google and notice what you get. He taught at Stanford for some years and that i think of he must be a catholic, he converted previous due in life.

Answer 3

Absolutely, without evil truly good wouldn't be as great! In order to appreciate the good you have to have the bad. In order to have the need to be thankful we have to have a reason right? The devil makes sure we never run out of prayer requests! He tries to make us forget that to ever no there is a yes, and to ever bad there is good. To every down there is an up, to every death there is life!

Answer 4

Our reality is sets of opposites. Life is truly a balance. Good would not exist without Bad, in our reality. Maybe in God's domain this is not true, and that is what Heaven is about.

Answer 5

In 2 Corinthians, Paul says that some people will be handed over to Satan in order for them to see their ways and in their need, turn back to God. (paraphrased) So yes.

Answer 6

I believe that God went to great lengths to give us free will, because without it there is no choice. Love is a choice, and God ultimately just wants us to love Him. I suppose in a way, we could not love God unless there were an alternative, and in that way, Satan is necessary.

Answer 7

Not neccessary. In Fact, Jesus said, He came 'to destroy the works of the devil'.

Answer 8

women do not count in islam, they are mens slaves on earth, and have allahs permission to beat up their wives when their wives are rude.

women in islam have no place in heaven either, only men go to paradise

women cannot do anything without a mans permission, husband or an uncle and they must cover thier faces and be submissive to men.

if a woman is rude, the husband doesnt need to take her to court for divorce, all he has to do is lift his right hand and say " i divorce you" 5 times, and kick her out the front door. its all legal

the men (only men), are going to a paradise heaven with 99 big breasted virgins they can pork all day (yes! its in the koran)

"O the joy of sodomy!
So now be sodomites, you Arabs.
Turn not away from it--
therein is wondrous pleasure.
Take some coy lad with kiss-curls
twisting on his temple
and ride as he stands like some gazelle
standing to her mate.
A lad whom all can see girt with sword
and belt not like your whore who has
to go veiled.
Make for smooth-faced boys and do your
very best to mount them, for women are
the mounts of the devils"

------perfumed garden Abu Nuwas


Koran 78:31
As for the righteous, they shall surely triumph. Theirs shall be gardens and vineyards, and high- bosomed virgins for companions: a truly overflowing cup.

Koran 37:40-48
...They will sit with bashful, dark-eyed virgins, as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches.

Koran 44:51-55
...Yes and We shall wed them to dark-eyed houris. (beautiful virgins)

Koran 52:17-20
...They shall recline on couches ranged in rows. To dark-eyed houris (virgins) we shall wed them...

Koran 55:56-57
In them will be bashful virgins neither man nor Jinn will have touched before.Then which of the favours of your Lord will you deny ?"

Koran 55:57-58
Virgins as fair as corals and rubies. Then which of the favours of your Lord will you deny ?"

Koran 56:7-40
...We created the houris (the beautiful women) and made them virgins, loving companions for those on the right hand.. "

Koran 55:70-77
"In each there shall be virgins chaste and fair... Dark eyed virgins sheltered in their tents whom neither man nor Jin will have touched before..

Answer 9

Without the evil, we would not know what good is. And it would take away the free will that God gave us.