2006-08-13 22:42:35 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's assuming that even the lowliest humans deserve respect. Let me ask you... how and/or why are they deserving? If one has to EARN respect and the lowliest humans have done nothing to EARN it, why should they RECEIVE my or anyone elses respect?
2006-08-13 22:45:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
it seems Satan has pleasure on bad things and pleasure is one of the many feelings we know, therefore, Satan has feelings on everything related to bad or evil. Answering your question I think he has feeling just not the good ones.
Now, about he deserves respect...that does not seems to make any sense to me.
Respect is something that people work hard to gain it, doing the best they can in order to make things right. The hard ways unfortunately tends to be the rights ones that's why people whom pay its price by accepting the sacrifice that a right decision brings are the most appreciated and honored by others respect because they can recognize its efforts.
Satan does not make any sacrifice for others or for anything, so why its should gain respect if nothing was done to gain it?
The point is respect comes for something valuable and there is nothing valuable about being evil.
2006-08-14 06:03:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 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 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
2006-08-14 16:28:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan takes glee in tricking humans, he has a great sense of theatrics and he seems pretty torn up whenever he looses a fiddle contenst. I'd assume that implies a pretty full range of emotion. We had better respect him. One second you stop respecting a snake, the next you begin sucking the wound in your arm as quickly as you can.
2006-08-14 05:53:54 · answer #4 · answered by W0LF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a tough one, but I think yes, Satan has feelings. Unfortunately, those feelings are not positive (pride, selfishness, etc). He's an enemy we should take care of. He wants us to doubt about God. His deceptions can only be understood as we stay with God (read Ephesians 6:10-18).
Read the following webpage: http://www.whiteestate.org/books/gc/gc32.html
2006-08-14 07:58:49 · answer #5 · answered by Cachanilla 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No he does not have feelings. He has only one objective and that is to destroy people so that they will burn in hell with him. He is not a human being he is a evil spirit who was cast out of hell. We do not have to respect him but we need to know that he is mighty and can do damage to us if we do not follow God.
He is a selfish, evil spirit and deserve no respect.
2006-08-14 09:05:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no proof of god, let alone satan.
For christs sake (pun intended), do we really think that, if there is a God, we are the most important thing in the universe!!! The arrogance and sense of self importance that humans, and particularly the Jews and Christians, possess is amazing.
2006-08-14 05:53:45 · answer #7 · answered by Jeremy D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay.... so the concept of Satan and Hell was developed by the fear-mongers to try to convince the stupid people to follow their way... so no satan equals no feelings.
2006-08-14 06:40:32 · answer #8 · answered by olly_olemassa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan is not human--he should be feared as his one goal is to take us away from God.
2006-08-14 05:47:10 · answer #9 · answered by CatholicMOM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan does not exist.
2006-08-14 05:47:58 · answer #10 · answered by Taiwan90851 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋