I actually identify more with Satan than I do with God. You see human sadness makes us beautiful…it means we practice conscious. Without Satan, existence would be a euphoria...meaningless as it is self-gratifying.
2006-09-08 04:07:26 · 26 answers · asked by Xo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Are you kidding RB? People on heroin live in a euphoria. What I'm saying is when you're on drugs you're like a dog wagging his tail...no thought. Euphoria is meaningless.
2006-09-08 04:18:55 · update #1
God IS Satan
2006-09-08 04:10:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
According to tradition:
Lucifer was created as the most beautiful and powerful amongst the angels. The three Abrahamic religions differ on various fine points on the function of Lucifer in this life and the afterlife.
My understanding is that because Lucifer was created greater than any other being, that the only being greater than he was G-d. Perhaps Lucifer underestimated G-d or overestimated himself, but he eventually got the idea that he was powerful enough to overthrow G-d and rule the universe or at least control a significant portion of it.
Lucifer was wrong and as his punishment he was no longer allowed to dwell in the presence of G-d, nor were the angels that took the side of Lucifer during the battle in Heaven. So G-d cast him and the rest of the angel rebellion down to earth to be dealt with during final judgment.
Many people view Lucifer as a hideous beast, but that is mostly inheirited from the Greek and Roman mythology. Lucifer was actually identified as the "morning star" when stars were synonamous with angels in prophecy. He is considered the most beautiful and intelligent being created by G-d, some say even above man.
Your imply that Lucifer is somehow the yin to G-d's yang and without him there would be no balance to the universe. That argument is invalid because G-d is one and infinite and Lucifer was created by G-d. Since the power of G-d cannot be diminished, I would say that G-d did not transfer what we might consider the force of evil to Lucifer in order to balance against the idea that G-d is good. The will of G-d is the balance of the universe, it cannot be wrong so there would be no need for such an opposing force.
Evil is manifested only in one's opinion of the choice of another and therefore can be created by any two individuals. G-d is the judge and decides what is right. Lucifer knowingly violated the will of G-d, such action is a sin by definition. The "evil" bit comes from the intention of the violation being greed in this case since Lucifer was not content with the gifts G-d had given him and saught more by taking it.
The pupose of explaining all this is to say that strife, hardship, and sadness can exist without Satan's influence on your life. It can be entirely the will of G-d that you suffer or a random set of occurances that G-d simply chooses not to interfere with.
The point of human life and conciousness is choice and problem solving. Those ideals still exist absent the influence of Lucifer. The entire human experience constructs the choices we are faced with every day and every choice we make will influence the human experience as it continues for other people. Satan does not control the choices of others and therefore has a far lesser influence over the struggles we face than you would give him credit for.
2006-09-08 11:43:41 · answer #2 · answered by lane.montgomery 2 · 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
2006-09-09 14:04:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing to do with Satan makes you beautiful, it separates you from all that is good, wonderful and full of life and eternity. Satan is a belief in the material incarnate belief that man is both good and evil that they all play a role in our being, all the wisdom of the ages, and that of the ancient wise men is that we need not be evil, or see evil to know and understand the allness of God, good.
Walk the path you walk, for your suffering will remain as long as you do so. Pain is not the door to pleasure and growth. One does not need to burn ones hand to know that the fire is hot!
2006-09-08 11:20:04 · answer #4 · answered by kickinupfunf 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Satan was One of Gods most beautiful angels.
Satan believed that he could do the job better than God, who created him.
God promised Satan that he would spend eternity in eternal damnation for his rebellion, God has even prepared a pit for him.
Misery loving company, Satan decided he would take Gods creation, man, into eternal damnation with him. Satan decieved Adam, causing the fall of man.
Satan knows he is defeated, he just wants to take you with him.
Don't go.
I am not going to tell you what to do, I can only pray that you will escape.
2006-09-08 11:23:05 · answer #5 · answered by theodore r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without the Creator of the Universe life is meaningless, hence the fact that He's the Creator.
2006-09-08 11:17:33 · answer #6 · answered by curly98 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whats wrong with living in euphoria? ( as long as God gives it). The Bible says he lead a rebellion against God; That's whats wrong.
2006-09-08 11:15:56 · answer #7 · answered by RB 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry for you . Satan is bad bexcause he wanted tobe equal with God and that was not happening so he tried to get a mutiny and the angels that joined him were thrown from heaven rigth along with him.
2006-09-08 11:22:36 · answer #8 · answered by wolfy1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Satan does provide us with challenges, but I do not think that makes him wonderful. I think that it is terrifying that a being exists whose only intention is to tear people away from eternal life with God and unconditional love.
2006-09-08 11:12:00 · answer #9 · answered by CatholicMOM 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Satan is a myth. In order to compare good (God) with bad (Satan) the religions had to create opposites. I think you can go back to the first religions and they will have this duality. You can choose to go with the good (God) and go to paradise when you die or you can go with bad (Satan) and suffer in hell when you die.
This form of manipulation has been used throughout human history.
2006-09-08 11:20:28 · answer #10 · answered by yuvid6 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think satan is bad because of the very reasons you have adduced. It makes us sad and is the exact opposite of happiness, goodness etc.
2006-09-08 11:19:03 · answer #11 · answered by abinyoho 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋