2006-09-07 11:14:25 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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
2006-09-09 07:01:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question you have to ask yourself is what would you do? Would you take the easy road and worship Satan hoping you might get a break every now and then from your suffering? Or do you go out and preach Christianity, just to pi$$ him off? Or do you just accept that you will exist forever in ever increasing torment?
2006-09-07 11:21:51 · answer #2 · answered by xenobyte72 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God already had everything planned out from the first day that Satan fell from Heaven. When Jesus went to the cross, Satan thought He was doing everybody a favor by getting rid of the Son Of God. What Satan did not know is that this was God's plan of salvation for mankind. When Jesus died on the cross, Jesus went to Hell, took the keys of death, released the saints in Abraham's Bosom, proclaimed further judgement to the fallen angels, demons, evil, unclean, familiar spirtis, took all the OT saints(Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Samuel, Abel, etc.) back with him on the earth, spent 40 days on the Earth witnessing to people and then Jesus and the OT saints ascended into Heaven.
What did Jesus mean, when He said, "It is finished?" Before Jesus died on the cross, Satan and his demons were had access to Heaven and were in God's time, which means that they were still in eternity and they had unlimited time to do whatever they wanted to do. When Jesus died and took the keys of death, that is when Satan was cut off from Heaven, no longer having access to Heaven and Satan was now in our time, which is lineuar time. Satan is now in our time, which means that his time is now very limited. He knows the judgement that is coming to him and his demons.
God already won the victory over sin, death, and Satan, In His eyes everything has taken place, but in our time, we are still waiting for the end time events to take place,we are still looking for the judgement of Satan, when in God's Kingdom, the judgement has already been set.................As the end of Revelations puts it, "Come Lord Jesus, Come"
2006-09-07 11:24:47 · answer #3 · answered by sanctusreal77 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What exactly is the difference between eternal suffering and evil, anyway? Destinated? Do you mean destined?
2006-09-07 11:17:34 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Satan is simply a two dimensional cutout created by the real Lord and Savior of this stinking pile of cosmic mucous we call Earth, Oderus Urungus!
In fact your God is nothing but a balsa wood replica created by the great and humongous Oderus Urungus, Lord of Antarctica, who sits alone in his throne room watching channel 5 and waiting for the world to die so that he may suck the souls of the underage.
2006-09-07 11:18:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It says in the bible that God and the his angels have already beat the forces of evil and Satan.
2006-09-07 11:19:58 · answer #6 · answered by cheesehead 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan won a long time ago. Just look outside !
2006-09-07 13:32:26 · answer #7 · answered by Jotun 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eternal suffering??
If you are living in England it doesn't get much worse than this!
2006-09-07 11:21:25 · answer #8 · answered by Frances Fullafrogs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan was already defeated at the cross.
2006-09-07 11:19:28 · answer #9 · answered by jewel_flower 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a chance.
Don't even worry about such a disaster...
Rev. 12
7And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
2006-09-07 11:29:21 · answer #10 · answered by joe_on_drums 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋