The current population of this tiny planet has 6 billion people.
1.6 billion of those people are Christians, which obviously means 4.4 billion people are wrong (including me).
Hell must obviously be a much bigger place to manage than Heaven . Did God take these facts into consideration? Did He build Hell much bigger than Heaven?
2006-09-28 15:22:08 · 6 answers · asked by Thinx 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No he just has better PR
2006-09-28 15:24:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 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 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
2006-09-28 23:12:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is called "slipping on a premise and sprawling to a conclusion". Remember that God created Hell and that Satan had a plan that he didn't manage to pull off. Does that make Satan a better manager? BAHHHHHHHHH!
2006-09-28 23:39:00 · answer #3 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe Satan doesn't actually need to be a better manager -- after all, he has all those smart atheists around the place, I bet with a few eons of torture he can get a plenty of good ideas out of them. He could even take the credit for himself! (Who's gonna blow the whistle on him?)
2006-09-28 22:29:16 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God gave ALL of His children free will, to follow Him, to love Him, to worship Him ... or not. Satan, on the other hand, uses lies and trickery, deceiving people into following him. He promises them a wondrous life. What they will get is an eternity of pain and suffering beyond anything we can imagine.
2006-09-28 22:30:57 · answer #5 · answered by celticwoman777 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are an idiot !
2006-09-28 22:27:03 · answer #6 · answered by g_man 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋