I asked where hate comes from, and received numerous responses that it comes from Satan. But how can anyone deny that hate is a part of our nature just as is love? If it came from Satan, then doesn't that mean were made in a combined image of God and Satan? Start making some sense please.
2006-09-11 10:07:53 · 22 answers · asked by lenny 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It comes from God just as everything else , Satan included. Satan cannot create anything, he's just an angel that turned from God.
2006-09-11 10:10:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think Satan is just a word people use to describe that part of the consciousness which is antisocial in nature. The very concepts of good and evil are inventions of man and therefore subject to psychological analysis relative to how we deal with each other. I have always liked Carl Jung's concept of the collective unconscious but I wonder if there isn't a collective consciousness, with various levels of awareness, the ultimate and final level that which some call God. If God is everything then surely God encompasses both good and evil. I know the religious answerers will not agree with me but I have attempted to answer to the best of my ability and I hope it gives you some insight as well as posing other questions. Any good answer should only be the beginning of the search for knowledge.
Warmest regards...
D.L. McElroy
2006-09-11 10:19:48 · answer #2 · answered by synchronicity915 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First off, what makes you think hate is necessarily an evil emotion? God hates sin. It is the application of hate that can be wrong. If we hate a person, that is wrong because we are supposed to love each other. But if we hate sinful actions, then that is appropriate and good. For example, it would be proper to hate the act of child molestation.
No, Satan is not a co-creator. That is just silly.
2006-09-11 10:15:11 · answer #3 · answered by Tim 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the garden of eden, Adam and Eve were "innocent," and were close with God. They didn't have a knowledge of good or evil. They couldn't do any wrong, because they didn't know what was right...and vice versa. There was the tree of knowledge...if they partook of the tree, they would be "cast out" of Gods presence. Eve was enticed by Satan, to partake of the fruit. She did. Adam would partake of the fruit also. Though they were cast out, and in a fallen state...they now had the knowledge of good and evil, and therefore could progress in knowledge, and have experience. Because of their fallen state, a Savior was needed. Heavenly Father knew this. Christ, our eldest brother was chosen from the foundation of the world. Satan was cast out of heaven for rebelling against Heavenly Father. Christ would come in the "meridian" of time, and make a sacrifice that would free us from the "second death" being the spiritual death.
2006-09-11 10:18:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Satan was an agel created by God, but he thought he was better than God. He is a fallen angel. I don't think we are born with hate. Maybe anger and satan feeds on the anger and then it becomes hate. I am not sure really but I don't think that Satan created us. We have emotions yeah, but we have a choice to act out on those emotions or not.
2006-09-11 10:13:46 · answer #5 · answered by faith 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God created Satan knowing that Satan would become evil therefor god created hate.
2006-09-11 10:12:46 · answer #6 · answered by Sleepy Shroom 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Satan did change this world through his hate and mankind followed him in this. When God created man he created man in his own image and asked all the Angels in heaven to bow down before mankind because of the fact that he created us in his own image and gave us power over all the living creatures on the earth. Satan got mad because he didn't want to, he said he and the angels were there first and they shouldn't have to bow before mortals. So as soon as he was given a chance he tempted eve in the Garden of Eden to go against God and she followed him. Through Eve his hatred was introduced to mankind.
2006-09-11 10:17:38 · answer #7 · answered by TheMightyOne 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wha.....? God created Lucifer, a beautiful angel with a gift for singing. When Lucifer decided that he was just as good, or equal to God, God kicked him and all of his followers out of Heaven. We now know Lucifer as satan, the one who God created hell for! God is love - hate is the direct opposite of love, so it cannot come from God!
2006-09-11 10:12:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hate is not the flip side of love. Antipathy is. Hate envolves feelings for the person or object in question. I believe God abhors (hates ) sin. So therefore I would have to say that it is a feeling borne of God. Perhaps not one he intentionally gave us but one that could be retrieved by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge
2006-09-11 10:17:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
start choosing to believe the correct answer and you'll understand. God is love. Satan is created, just like us. We all chose to either glorify God or blaspheme God with our actions and choices. Hatred is when we chose to blaspheme God. Love is when we choose to glorify God. Only Jesus can make you right with God. I know - because I tried to do it myself, and I failed miserably. God picked me up, and gave me a new life. Thats how I know God is love.
2006-09-11 10:16:53 · answer #10 · answered by j-Z 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋