Because without the two, we wouldn't be here. Would we? Life is short but sweet, but we still love it and try to make it and survive?
Technically, if it wasn't for Lucifer, we wouldn't have the desire to be closer to God and tell him the stories of our lives, would we?
So if the saying, If you love somone and let them go to see if they return is true, Lucifer allowed this to be the case.
I'm not into Satanism or anything but trying to ask an honest question.
2006-09-30 15:28:33 · 5 answers · asked by Corey 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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
2006-09-30 15:31:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
CONGRATS!!!
You've discovered the truth to the greatest lie ever told.
There can not be a heaven without a hell. A Jesus without a Satan. The truth about religion is exactly this....a contradiction. A RUSE to place a few in controll of many, using fear and guilt as weapons to enforce morality and conquer the wicked ( or those who do not submit)
2006-09-30 15:40:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot appreciate the light without first knowing the dark.
That is the duality of our existence and the fundamental underpinning of all monotheistic religions. Unfortunately, to my way of thinking, this demonizes the dark yet the dark is necessary to life itself. Yin and yang. The conscious and unconscious. Neither are good or bad. They just are. And they are needed.
What would your life be like without a full moon in a starry sky to gaze at and admire? And more fundamentally, what would your life be like without sleep? That necessary downtime that makes your daylight hours worthwhile?
2006-09-30 15:52:38 · answer #3 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus prayed to God and worshiped God. Is that sparkling adequate? He has an same Father in Heaven and an same God that we do. He also claimed to be Jehovah, the giver of the regulation. there is just one way this will be reconciled. as well, no man or woman places any inventory in someone who talks to himself.
2016-11-25 19:40:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, praise Satan!
2006-09-30 15:31:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋