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
2006-08-29 15:09:18
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Let's put it this way...
...is any inmate of a prison, the prison's ruler? No, that position belongs to one of innocence in the eyes of the law.
So too is it with Hell. Satan is not "king of Hell". He is an 'inmate', just like everyone else sent there. He will endure the very pains, horrors, and sorrows, that the unsaved will suffer.
2006-08-29 06:57:25
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answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5
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In the first place, you ain't big enough
In the second place, Satan will be an inmate, not the king of anything after this present existence.
2006-08-29 06:56:09
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answered by Anonymous
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Sorry approximately how long that's, I oftentimes do not answer almost this lots. in the previous we the earth substitute into fashioned, Heavenly Father presented a plan for us, that we would come to earth, benefit a physique, have substantial gaining knowledge of reports, and finally die. we would be loose to % how we lived, yet as quickly as we chosen to stay real to despite easy and information we won on the earth, we would have super advantages in Heaven and peace even as on the earth. We had found out as much as we could and not making use of a physique, and mandatory to enhance in adventure and adulthood. Jesus Christ presented to come back to pay the value for the sins and errors that we would make, and, if we frequently used his words, have the flexibility to come back lower back after being wiped clean by making use of his sacrifice and paying the value for our wrongs. we would have the flexibility to be resurrected and receive perfected our bodies at it sluggish after our deaths. devil substitute into additionally there and presented to take the interest too, yet he theory he substitute into smarter than Heavenly Father. He had to tell all people what to do. Then he could take God's place, via fact if God substitute into making a mistake, devil substitute into the surprising one for the interest. Jesus substitute into chosen. devil would not take no for an answer, led a insurrection against God and finally substitute into despatched away continuously. He and others who observed him are right here on the earth, different than that we can't oftentimes see them. He keeps that insurrection as we communicate.
2016-12-14 14:17:40
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answered by Anonymous
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Lucifer was created the highest Arc Angel in heaven. He was never a man or human like us. You can't beat him except by letting Jesus work through you. Only good conquers evil and only with the Word of God/Sword of the Spirit are we able to fight satan.
2006-08-29 06:58:29
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answered by elthe3rd 4
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Satan is evil and everything he does is against the ways of God. The only way you can beat him is use the ways of God. If that happens, I do not think you will qualify to become the king of hell.
Go ahead try.
2006-08-29 07:00:05
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answered by Rallie Florencio C 7
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Good idea ! you are a genius!
But I'm afraid you will be the worst when you become the king
Let l be the king
2006-08-29 07:02:41
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answered by ALONG 2
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"It has been believed heretofore in the world that there is one devil that presides over the hells; that he was created an angel of light; but having become rebellious he was cast down with his crew into hell. This belief has prevailed because the devil and satan, and also lucifer, are mentioned by name in the Word, and the Word in those places has been understood according to the sense of the letter. But by "devil" and "satan" there hell is meant, "devil" meaning the hell that is behind, where the worst dwell, who are called evil genii; and "satan" the hell that is in front, where the less wicked dwell, who are called evil spirits; and "lucifer" those that belong to Babel, or Babylon, who would extend their dominion even into heaven. That there is no one devil to whom the hells are subject is evident also from this, that all who are in the hells, like all who are in the heavens, are from the human race (see n. 311-317); and that those who have gone there from the beginning of creation to this time amount to myriads of myriads, and every one of them is a devil in accord with his opposition to the Divine while he lived in the world" (Heaven and Hell n. 544).
2006-08-29 06:52:52
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answered by Anonymous
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No, because the King of hell is the Iraqi president.
2006-08-29 07:02:04
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answered by Anonymous
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Mate the job isn't as good as it sounds.
King of hell has all sorts of duties that...shall we say....would turn your stomach.
Nobody likes him and his tax policy is out of this world !
Stick to your primary school and crayons.
2006-08-29 07:06:30
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answered by Teacher 4
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