Do you believe Satan is evil because God said so?

Question

Where would we be if we only accepted heresay as truth...

Answer 1

Definitely No. See God gave angels free will to decide what to do (Satan was an angel too). The same thing that did with humans and the stupid ones go and ask stupid questions here.

Answer 2

Or do I believe, God said so, or there is a Satan or there is a God?

The winners write history and men are often examined after their deaths by critics seeking the acclaim of being a detractor of someone who in life either had approbation or inspired flattery. SO let's say the myths of a war in heaven are true and Satan lost and Yahweh was victorious. Now we know Yahweh is the kind of God that insists on flattery, loyalty, obedience, offerings, and doesn't just kill his enemies, but roasts them alive in flames for eternity for the slightest offense. He killed all the first-born children of an entire nation because of the stubborness of one opponent. How is he any nicer than Nero? At least Nero let his enemies die from being burned. Certainly if Hitler had been successful, the histories of World War II would read very differently in describing him and the Reich and the Reich's enemies.

If Yahweh had been an ancient and brutal tyrant and Satan a freedom fighter who lead an unsuccessful revolt, based on how other histories have been written, we can say we would have gotten the same story we have today. Given Yahweh's behavior in the OT, why does everyone just accept that "the devil" lost? Seems as plausible that Yahweh was the devil who won and the one villified for fighting against him may have been the real good guy, who like Richard III was turned into a hunchback and infanticidal monster by the historians of his victorious enemies after he lost the war.

Answer 3

Take a look at the opera by Verdi, Don Carlo. It seems to mirror the actions of Lucifer (who became Satan) when he took Eve away from her intended spouse, Adam. But the real history of Don Carlo, son of Philip II King of Spain is hard to verify, so this is speculation of course. Look at the character of Aniken Skywalker who becomes (in Star Wars) Darth Vader, he goes through a transformation when he takes a spouse that may not have been the right one. Look around where you live and see how many people shy away from marriage, or get married and raise miserable kids . . . even if you know the "truth" what benefit will it be to you if you cannot apply it and find some value in it? God is not limited to human thinking and habits.

Answer 4

First off if a lie is told long enough people will soon believe it to be the truth. People are very weak minded, very soon to forget the events of yesterday, being so fouced on tomorrow.

God didn't make Satan evil, no Satan made to choice. Just like you and I have and make the choice everyday.

I don't blindly follow, I look at the spirit behind things and make my mind up based on that.

If you think that that's crazy fine, I didn't ask that you believe as I do. It's a choice and I have made mine. Choose what you will, you are the one that has to live with it.

Answer 5

I know the devil is evil because I've met him and his friends face to face. I came to know the Lord and his mercy by experiencing the true terror and hatred of Satan. I'm sure a lot of people are easily convinced of things that are spoon fed to them. I was always a skeptic until I had a 2 year period of my life with such inandation of spiritual attack. Everything from visual manifestations, physical attacks, audible and such. Once I came to acceptance of God's grace through Christ, they have subsided, I can't tell you how crappy it is to be afraid of the dark as an adult because of what I've seen.

I hope you have an easier chance of accpeting the truth then the horrors I have faced. Not heresay, direct contact.

Answer 6

I'd rather believe God and have at least a 50% chance at being right than not and have a 50 % chance of being wrong.
All you have to do is visit a criminally insane person who has committed horrid crimes. look into the eyes of a cold blooded killer. I have seen true evil in interviews with people. Satan is an un-seen being. But his activities are visible. One is free to choose what wants to think. But never think pure evil will not be able to touch you or those you love because you do not believe in it's existence.

Answer 7

Satan IS evil. When he was Lucifer he believed he could become God. Besides, take a look around at the things that are happening in the world today. Look at the influence he has over todays youth. Everyday there is another murder, assult, bombing, or rape. He is everywhere and everywhere is evil.
But remember God is a just God

Answer 8

Wait a minute! God is only heresay, so do you believe in God because other wise the question cancels itself out.

Answer 9

Yes I believe satan is evil because God said so

Answer 10

No Satan is Evil because he has, is and will be negative to God intentions, plans and desires to become a living entity. and this since Satan begun to persecuted the Spirits, and every living energy willing to follow God desires to become, pursue and achieved a perfect physical entity. Even before the creation of the material World. And I believed Satan is Evil because I consider my self to be a positive living energy, and part of God, intelligent creation, and not part of Satan creation, which was and its a negative energy been emanate from the matter's and from the Substances of matter?.

Answer 11

I don't think Satan is evil simply because God said so. That would be arbitrary. I think Satan is evil because when he was still an angel of the Lord, he decided that he could be God. Satan is everything God is not, that contrast is what makes him evil.