2006-08-10 11:25:26 · 13 answers · asked by lameck 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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
2006-08-10 15:12:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely Doctored
2006-08-10 11:33:24 · answer #2 · answered by shakespeare 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Real photo. Not really Satan....
The human mind is absolutely interesting. One of the first things we learn to do is recognize FACES - this helps us bond with mom and dad.... As a result, the human mind plays tricks and makes humans susceptible to "seeing" faces that are not really there. Take the man on the moon. face on Mars. Mary in a grilled Cheese sandwich. Rabbits in the clouds. All real, but images are distorted by the wishful thinking of mankind....
2006-08-10 11:36:38 · answer #3 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've seen at least one Photoshopped image...and other things, no. Humans have a way of trying to find recognizable shapes in things. For example, I used to do that with the wet marks on the shower curtain when taking a shower, lots of faces and stuff, but that doesn't mean they were anything other then wet marks.
2006-08-10 11:46:53 · answer #4 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
doctored,satan is a spirit creature, sometimes you can see things in pictures that aren't there, it's like Mary always showing up in tacos.
2006-08-10 11:32:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LoL! Like Jesus in the Grilled Cheese!
2006-08-10 11:32:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always thought it was supposed to be bin laden in the smoke!
2006-08-10 11:32:18 · answer #7 · answered by angel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that it was real. after all, it is the devil that causes these tragedies to happen. It could be a sign...maybe a prophecy of some sort.
2006-08-10 12:25:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
didn't see it....have a link?
2006-08-10 11:30:28 · answer #9 · answered by Josh K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't seen it, but I'm willing to bet it's doctored.
2006-08-10 11:31:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋