+ Isn't it obvious that God is not all-powerful unless Satan works for God?

Question

Well there you go...Satan is working for God even if Satan is not aware.

Answer 1

How do you come to that conclusion?

Answer 2

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 Gods 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

Answer 3

No, it isn't obvious.

Sometimes part of omnipotence is ceding one's power in certain circumstances.

That is, God is omnipotent and yet has permitted Satan to have influence in certain arenas. It doesn't make God less powerful because he declines to exercise his power.

But this is difficult to talk about anyway, since God and Satan live outside of time and space, where the battle for human souls is already over. It was over before it began. But since we live inside of time and space, we perceive it to be ongoing.

Answer 4

I have to say, your question wasn't phrased very well. However, I will do my best to answer it as I think you meant it.
Satan can only do what God allows him to do. Check out the first few chapters in the book of Job (right before Psalms). God allowed the Devil to bring sorrows upon Job, but only to a certain extent. Of course Satan would have wanted to kill him, but God wouldn't allow it.

Answer 5

satan is a creation of god, it's in god's nature for opposites to work together, otherwise, there is nothing left. man woman, negative positive, yin yang.....everything is god's creation, a play between the opposites, and the middle mean being the place to be