Why do they believe in Satan? The only proof of satan is the bible, and if they believed in Satan then that means they would believe in the bible, right? and if they believed in the bible then wouldn't they believe that god was going win over satan in the end? So why would they choose the loosing team?
2006-09-24 17:26:48 · 12 answers · asked by funaholic 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it's like saying: "I believe in this book. this book says satan is real. this book also says that god will beat satan and satanists will burn in hell. i am a satanist."
2006-09-24 17:28:34 · update #1
How come people in the west hate Osama bin Laden while people in the border region of Pakistan/Afghanistan think he's a hero? We only get the "God" side of the story, and as usual, it's one sided. Has Satan ever been given the chance to put his case forward? Why he was cast out of heaven? How do we know that he didn't just get sick of God's egomania and bullying and walk out? God isn't going to tell a story that's against his own interests, now is he?
Perhaps Satanists (taking into account Girl Wonder's answer at the top of your question) just think that the God of the Bible isn't all he's made out to be by his blinkered followers. Satan had a bad press. I've never actually seen evidence for him doing anything wrong, any more than I've seen evidence for God doing anything right. Have you?
2006-09-24 22:21:49 · answer #1 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Off-the-cuff answer: You don't get Satanists. I keep my house clean and I don't get cockroaches. Let's count our blessings.
Deeper answer: I wondered for years how someone could have a choice between good and evil and decide to choose evil. In those terms, it just doesn't make sense. In fact, most of life is not about choices between good and evil. It is about choices between a little better and a little worse. Satanists feel that they have other information about the Dark Lord and that he isn't such a bad guy after all, just misunderstood by the Christian majority. They see traditional religions as being unrealistic, focused on the sky, calling all earthly things bad, calling life itself an evil thing to be avoided.
For the record, I don't worship Satan nor do I really believe in a personification of absolute evil in those terms. That's the Zoroastrian view of spirituality- the idea that good is one great god and that evil is another, opposing great god. That is the kind of thinking that can really only lead to a worldwide final battle between good and evil. People are choosing sides for that battle right now, each side thinking that it is the right one. My only question is whether it really is God against Satan, good versus evil or whether it's actually just people seeing the world in absolute, polarized terms and taking us all on a ride from which there may be no return.
Neither God nor Satan is your enemy. Fear and hatred are your enemies and guess where they are both living and where the real battleground is. Inside each of us.
2006-09-25 00:48:52 · answer #2 · answered by anyone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've seen self-proclaimed Satanists here who seemed to equate their belief with atheism and was puzzled by that too. As an atheist who disbelieves the Hebrew Bible, it doesn't make sense to me at all. But then I saw the wikipedia page below about LeVayan Satantism. It makes a little more sense now, but I have to say I still think it is totally wacky. They claim that they only use Satan as a "symbol" and do not belief in a real supernatural entity. I agree with only some of the nine Satanic Statements and eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth.
2006-09-25 00:33:53 · answer #3 · answered by Jim L 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are some Religious texts that hint that Satan and God are actually the same individual.
If God defines and the Final Judge, then the Logical Answer would be for God to redefine the Definition of Satan where God is Satan.
That way, if any other individual or deity claims to be Satan, they can't because God is Satan.
If God defines and God defines Satan to be God, it changes it to where it's no longer Man vs. Man or Man vs. Nature, but simply Man vs. Self.
When it comes to Polarities, you have Yin and Yang. In Computers, it's Zero and One. Everything divided by one becomes defined (God). Anything that is undefined would be Non-God (Satan).
If God becomes Satan and God defines who Satan is, that falls in the Realm of God as being defined.
It would also satisfy the prerequisites for Evil because the greatest deception would be if God turned out to be Satan.
By God accepting the Role of Satan and being despised but it was done out of sacrifice for the Love of People, that's a Holy Act and Selfless by incurring the hatred of Humankind for that Deception.
Don't forget that if God is supposedly smarter than Satan and God is better than Satan in every respect, then that would also mean God is craftier or more sly than Satan.
It also means that if God can do anything, he'd also be able to find a way to reinterpret things to where his act of inheriting Satan's Powers was an Act of Goodness and therefore legal.
Once again, we come back to God being the Final Judge. Judges are originally Lawyers and know how to interpret God's Law. So it shouldn't come as a surprise if God as a Lawyer would know how to interpret God's Law in such a crafty manner as well.
Anyone who is more sly or crafty than Satan would inherit the Powers of Evil. By having both the Powers of God and the Powers of Satan creating Unification, that would qualify as a "Selfish" act because it's a monopoly.
It's like the picture of a serpent eating its own tail.
I work in the Film & Entertainment Industry doing Contract Law and there all kinds of ways you can reinterpret the Law. If crafty humans can do it and God is smarter and craftier than humankind, you can bet that God would pull something else off as well.
Don't forget that if God can define what's Good and Bad, even if the people don't agree, God is God and can define something crafty he's done as being Good because it's about God's Law. If you're the one who's writing the Laws, you can define what's legal and not legal.
If you don't like it, you can change or edit the Law just like a Computer Software Code. Laws simply define what is deemed acceptable within a given society that embraces such Laws.
This is an example of a Religious Tautology where A = Not A.
It's like in the "Phantom Tollbooth" when the King of Numbers and the King of Letters claimed there was nothing they could ever agree upon. However, Milo pointed out that they could both agree that if one agreed, the other would disagree. They both agreed that if one person was pro, the other would be con.
2006-09-25 00:38:59 · answer #4 · answered by "IRonIC" by Alanis 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The term satanist is supposed to be a joke. They don't really worhsip Satan. They worship the human form, themselves, and human nature. They have rituals worshipping and indulging themselves and each other. Since that is considered evil in Christianity, they dubbed themselves Satanists.
2006-09-25 00:30:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
SATAN was created by God with a soul the same way the rest of us are. but he was given a different task in the sceame of things . to be a temter to try and lead peoples souls away from the word and laws of God and to try and keep the keys to HELL away from Jesus so those souls trapped there would have no means of escape when the day of Judgement comes . and SATAN is accountable to GOD for his actions also as he is part of GOD through the soul.
2006-09-25 00:36:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Do some research on Satanism. Most Satanists don't actually believe in Satan, he's just symbolic.
2006-09-25 00:29:34 · answer #7 · answered by Girl Wonder 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Um, most of them don't believe in Satan. You should look into this before asking why they believe in it.
2006-09-25 12:13:28 · answer #8 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think satanists would believe in the bible at all. I suppose they have their own "proof" whatsoever.
2006-09-25 00:36:05 · answer #9 · answered by Omega 015 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Satanism is about self indulgence and putting your needs before everything!!
and Satan to them is manly symbolic!
Get it right!
A Wiccan and Proud
-Why?
2006-09-25 00:30:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋