If you were a perfect, omnipotent being and goatelligent designed some friends, let's call one of them Stan, and Stan went crazy and knocked over all the chandeliers in your palace and didn't want to be your pet, would you send Stan to the eternal Barbeque pit in the ground?
2006-09-07 12:33:41 · 11 answers · asked by Nerdly Stud 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes everybody knows Satan used to be God's flashlight goat. Yawn
2006-09-07 12:38:35 · update #1
Surely if you were omniscient, you'd know that making a pet goat would turn out badly.
2006-09-07 12:41:27 · update #2
No. Because if that was the case we would be the same thing. Like humans angels have free will. Lucifer got a little carried away and God had to spank dat azz.
2006-09-07 12:37:12 · answer #1 · answered by peach49444 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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 06:58:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan is who God detailed him as. Futhermore I am not messing around with the devil cause he's got powers too and if you knew any better you would find a better topic to be dipping your nose in. Then if you were a christsian you would not have time for this type of m=hum bug.
2006-09-07 12:38:05 · answer #3 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Satan was a cherub and a worshiper of God with responsibly.
This passage describes Satan, before he sinned, and what happened to him in 1914 when he was forced out of heaven and confined to the earth.
Ezekiel 28:12-17
“‘“You are sealing up a pattern, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 In E′den, the garden of God, you proved to be. Every precious stone was your covering, ruby, topaz and jasper; chrys′o·lite, onyx and jade; sapphire, turquoise and emerald; and of gold was the workmanship of your settings and your sockets in you. In the day of your being created they were made ready. 14 You are the anointed cherub that is covering, and I have set you. On the holy mountain of God you proved to be. In the midst of fiery stones you walked about. 15 You were faultless in your ways from the day of your being created until unrighteousness was found in you.
16 “‘“Because of the abundance of your sales goods they filled the midst of you with violence, and you began to sin. And I shall put you as profane out of the mountain of God, and I shall destroy you, O cherub that is covering, from the midst of the fiery stones.
17 “‘“Your heart became haughty because of your beauty. You brought your wisdom to ruin on account of your beaming splendor. Onto the earth I will throw you. Before kings I will set you, [for them] to look upon you
2006-09-07 12:44:37 · answer #4 · answered by Here I Am 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God would just grab the goat from behind, have his mysterious way and slit his throat.. That way every religious sod on earth would be happy.
2006-09-07 12:36:25 · answer #5 · answered by McAtterie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He the Azazel goat.
2006-09-07 12:41:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the bible before you open your mouth. It explains the origins of Satan.
2006-09-07 12:37:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Scientist are right, there is ONE born every minute,
Your proof
2006-09-07 12:38:32 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is just Satan's frontman.
2006-09-07 12:40:48 · answer #9 · answered by mad alan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
satan hates you and doesn't care if you defend him.
2006-09-07 12:37:56 · answer #10 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋