2006-08-18 06:26:45 · 21 answers · asked by sexy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God created Satan knowing that Satan would rebel because it's a test for his creation (human beings).
Satan wanted to prove to God that he can sway people away from God.
So God gave him this chance...
It's a test between the good and the bad.
2006-08-18 06:32:05 · answer #1 · answered by falzalnz 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
God Created Satan to find out who in Humanity would rebel.
2006-08-18 13:33:31 · answer #2 · answered by pickle head 6 · 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
2006-08-19 20:52:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created Satan for just that purpose. He had to tell everyone that they have free will, but free will is meaningless if you don't have something to choose from. You can't "choose" to be good unless you know there's an alternative out there. So if Satan hadn't rebelled, it would have been someone else. He's a puppet, just like all of us.
That is, if you believe in all that crap.
2006-08-18 13:34:22 · answer #4 · answered by Eldritch 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well personally i dont believe in the conventional god and i dont believe in satan at all. I believe that people created satan, as a scape goat for all the evil inside us. He is jus a tangable way to represent the bad in the human race. Just what i think, we are all responsible for our own actions and sins, no-one tempted us, we just say that so we don't get as much blame. satan was a really clever and human invention.
2006-08-18 13:41:36 · answer #5 · answered by lucynewis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did not create Satan, the angel created as Lucifer, Angel of Light, became Satan when he tried to become god. He thought himself better than God, and wanted to take God's place. He convinced 1/3 of the angels of heaven to follow him.
And yes, God knew this was going to happen. It was all a part of the total plan of salvation.
2006-08-18 13:34:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God didn't know Satan was going to sin. He made everyone with free will. Love coming from a free will angel is not forced love.
that's is what it is all about. Do you love the God or not?
2006-08-18 13:46:54 · answer #7 · answered by LP S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the answer depends on our knowldge of who God is and how He behaves. We know God is good and holy, therefore everything He does is good. When God created Satan He knew Satan would rebel, like you said, but God decided to do it anyway. The reason is because a greater good will come out of it than if he never created Satan at all.
That's a tough answer to swallow, especially for people who go through struggles, etc., but that's the way it is. More good will come out of it than bad that happened as a result of it.
2006-08-18 13:31:54 · answer #8 · answered by Tangus 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Although God has the power of unlimited knowledge, I don't think that even he knew that Satan would rebel. That is the consiquence of free will which he loved us enough to create it.
2006-08-18 13:32:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
the same reason he created us knowing that a very large % of humans would go to hell, also the same reason that "GOD" did not appear to us before the year of Christ so being that everyone before his coming went to hell.whats the reason?just to make us suffer as much i can think of.
2006-08-18 13:40:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋