Hypothetical: Bible's wrong, God lost a bet to Satan and lost his soul, so Satan controls everything. Would you obey Satan? If not he will torture God big time and make baby Jesus cry.
2006-08-14 06:34:53 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Too hot, copping out, huh?
2006-08-14 06:39:44 · update #1
Absolutely not.
2006-08-14 06:40:51 · answer #1 · answered by Brea1243 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What a ridiculous question! We should still do as God would have us do no matter what he threatens. Just as we would want our children to obey us no matter the cost to us or how we suffer. By the way...God created Satan...Satan got an attitude and fell away. He is not nor has ever been more powerful than God.
2006-08-14 06:46:04 · answer #2 · answered by peacemaker 3 · 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 09:26:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus ain't a baby no more. That was the whole point of his coming to Earth. Anywho, If God is in Hell, he's whistling while he works, and converting all the damned souls. That would be interesting to have the Harrowing of Hell on such a grand scale though.
2006-08-14 06:40:14 · answer #4 · answered by gogododo3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well... First of all it doesnt sound like they shook on it. But, what if Satan won God's soul on ebay? I'm not sure there's anything that could be done about that. Excellent question.
2006-08-14 14:16:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan can never win against God.
2006-08-14 07:52:55 · answer #6 · answered by Da Great 1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The words 'satan' and 'devil' are used figuratively to describe the natural sinful tendencies within us hey are also personified, and as such they can be spoken of as 'the devil'- our enemy, a slanderer of the truth. This is what our natural 'man' is like - the very devil. The connection between the devil and our evil desires - sin within us - is made explicit in several passages: "As the children (ourselves) are partakers of flesh and blood, he (Jesus) also himself likewise took part of the same; that through (his) death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil" (Heb.2:14). The devil is here described as being responsible for death. But "the wages of sin is death" (Rom.6:23). Therefore sin and the devil must be parallel. Similarly James 1:14 says that our evil desires tempt us, leading us to sin and therefore to death; but Hebrews 2:14 says that the devil brings death. The same verse says that Jesus had our nature in order to destroy the devil. Contrast this with Rom.8:3: "God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh (that is, in our human nature) condemned sin in the flesh". This shows that the devil and the sinful tendencies that are naturally within human nature are effectively the same.
2006-08-14 06:41:17 · answer #7 · answered by malisimo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's like saying if we eliminated the number 2 would you now believe 1+1=3? Truly a ridiculous arguement. Try again sir.
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2006-08-14 06:39:25 · answer #8 · answered by green93lx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uhm.. Hypothetically, God Created Satan. So NO! He dont know what he's doing?
2006-08-14 06:39:51 · answer #9 · answered by Marillita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i went down to the crossroads
and fell down on my kness
then a grandmother came out from behind the trees
grabbed the ears of satan and god
drug them in front of her
and told them both to behave . . .
my guitar playing has never been better after that
2006-08-14 06:48:26 · answer #10 · answered by a_blue_grey_mist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe 'God' would have a soul, technically. And if Satan existed it would be as an angel who has no will of its own.
2006-08-14 06:40:29 · answer #11 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋