During a faith-healing session, it's quite usual for the preacher to cast Satan into the bottomless pit & seal him there. At the next faith-healing session that preacher says the same thing. Is it possible for Satan to escape time & again from the bottomless pit after he has been sealed there?
2006-08-23 19:03:47 · 21 answers · asked by Shot At Sight 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
These faith healers are a very presumptuous lot!
They have NO ability whatsoever to cast Satan anywhere.
If indeed Satan was cast in to the bottomless pit ALL CRIME WOULD STOP!
Get out your Bible and see who has the Authority To DO THAT!
Not these so called faith healers.
2006-08-23 19:09:19 · answer #1 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Shot At Sight,
As I understand it, the preacher does not have that power. Jesus said
Matthew 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Satan himself goes to the Bottomless pit
Revelation 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up,
That is an event yet to happen.
So the answer to your question, no.
2006-08-23 19:31:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't you recognize a scam when you see one????
Doesn't the preacher ask for $$$$$$ at each session????
Don't you think that the preacher and Satan are working together to get more $$$$$$ from the faithful????
The preacher probably gave Satan a LARGE signing bonus a percentage of the collection, and a no-cut contract...
Think about it...if the preacher actually put Satan away for good...he'd be out of a job...
2006-08-23 19:11:58 · answer #3 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A preacher has no power to cast Satan into the bottomless pit, only God has that power. When confronted with demons we can say; "In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to leave". Telling Satan to get out is a figure of speach because he was actually given the earth.
2006-08-23 19:18:10 · answer #4 · answered by curly98 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man cannot seal Satan away it is beyond our power to do so as Satan was created by the CREATOR OF ALL THINGS to be the Temtptor of mens souls . to try and tempt them from Gods path for us.Jesus now holds the keys to Hell so that All those there can be released on the day of the LAST JUDGEMENT and be returned to the Body of the CREATOR including SATAN.
2006-08-23 19:19:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As for satan, 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
2006-08-25 13:49:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its one of those obscure paradoxes of religion that no one seems to care about. I'm sure the ceremony represents casting satan into the pit and sealing it rather than literally throwing him back in everytime he gets out.
2006-08-23 19:06:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
you can't cast the Satan any where...god did not cast him to a bottomless pit yet...he casted him on earth- for a time.
2006-08-23 19:06:54 · answer #8 · answered by butterflyfrills 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its like Faith.... Satan is always behind us .... he is back of us like a Roaring lion.. but not lion.. there is a time when God puts him under the pit permanently.... yea he come from pit .. he is shame less Fellow
2006-08-23 19:12:29 · answer #9 · answered by Eby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan can escape and the faith-healer can send him back to hell as long as someone is paying him to do it.
2006-08-23 19:10:59 · answer #10 · answered by charice266 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋