The answer that Satan had free-will and chose to rebel against God sounds right at first, but why would an omnipotent God not just destroy him immediately when he re rebelled? God must have wanted a fight since he created Satan knowing that he would one day rebel against Him. In order for evil to ever exist, I would think that evil and good (God and Satan) would both have to be eternal since one would never create the other (unless they wanted a fight).
For those who will still say that God created Satan, why would he ever introduce His most beloved creation (us) to evil? If it was to give us a choice, is the choice to CHOOSE evil or good (as it should be) or to choose to BELIEVE in Him or not. If the answer is to believe in Him or not, why ever create beings who are not smart enough to be able to understand God or Satan, then ask them to choose?
I know this is a loaded question, but it will hopefully weed out all the simple-minded answers.
2006-10-07 21:44:49 · 15 answers · asked by ben_j_mac 2 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
2006-10-08 15:04:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Were Born To Live We Live To Learn Through Experience
You Answered Your Own Question & Should Of Been Feeling The Spirit We Arnt Born To Acuire Others Minds But To Folow Our Own With The Presence And Knowing Of God Our Holy Spirit Whom Jesus Gave To All To Penetrait Satans Lies Which Are Merely There To Test You Before God
Why Would God Want To Destroy Something He Profits So Much By Remember When Dracos In Heaven He Can Not Take Selfish Creed
And Gods Spirit = Gods Presence On Earth Since The Begining
Satan's What We Get For Doubting God Awake Awaken
Awakenment We Always Get What We Ask God For
2006-10-07 22:03:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Excellent Question(s)
To create Satan and immediately destroy would contradict the attributes of All Knowing, All Wise, All Aware.
Perhaps the creation of Satan is to challenge the Human to convert the Satan towards the worship of the God. It may very well be that Satan is more obedient than Humans at this point. Satan is certainly on the job, working overtime.
Humans have discernment, discrimination, the ability to choose to apply the "Free Will."
The Prophet Muhammed was asked if he had a Satan within himself, after stating that all Humans had a Satan within themselves. He replied Yes, but that he had converted his to the worship of the God.
The story illustrates that Prophets, All Prophets are really no different essentially than other Humans. The exception is that the God has gifted them just like artist & scientist & even idiot savats in ways special concerning spiritual revalation. We all are gifted in many ways, some things for some must be worked at more than others. In some cases we build upon the works of others. After why reinvent the wheel when it can merely be improved.
We are faced with decisions of choosing good or evil from the time of our awareness of the existence of the two and the Free Will. The awareness make discernment more easy or difficult depending on the circumstances.
One of the challenges is of the awareness is to sharpen our insight and foresight so that we can decide better as situations become more complex. Some matters for most of us are "no brainers," very easy to discern. For instance, to kill some people for no apparent reason, for ones own protection, because someone tells us, to be a hero, to gain profit, for ones own liberty, for the liberty and protection of another, for gymshoes, for waking up on the wrong side of the bed, for retribution, for global domination, etc. are all different but takes on different complexity with the different situational involvement. The discernment is contingent on ones gifts and willingness to apply the gifts to convert the satan. Even for the more nobler reasons to protect oneself or children the complexity is increased. Not to kill in this case as far as some are concerned would be sinfull.
Personal development is very important for this reason so that one has an expansion of the basic understanding of Free Will, right, wrong, and where one stands with reference to these items.
The whole thing is a collection of questions which relates to the question, "To Be or Not To Be, Whether it is Nobler...?" What is the decision I should make? How should I make it? What do I do now? How did I get in this mess? How do I get out of this mess? What kind of mess is this? What are the consequences of this mess?
Challenge. It is all about challenge. Challenge makes us better. The God might be a comedian performing before an audience that is afraid to laugh!!!
2006-10-07 22:30:16 · answer #3 · answered by LeBlanc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God must not be All-Knowing. He may not have even created Satan, which means He is not the Creator. In the Book of Job, God lets Satan destroy God's favorite human, just to see how Job would react. God is obviously more contemporary to Satan than He is to even His favorite human.
2006-10-07 23:24:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everything that "God" makes, he has to know what it'll do or how it will behave or else he isn't all knowing. When God made Satan (as well as humans) he'd have to have know what he was going to do. Why would he even bother creating humans if he already knew the result? This is a major flaw in Christianity.
2006-10-07 21:49:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
why would an omnipotent God not just destroy him immediately when he rebelled?
well, none of us would be here if that were the case because Adam did the equivilent
Lucifer, who himself succumbed to pride, was the first and mightiest angel to be created. With intelligence, radiance, beauty, and power unmatched among all of the angels in Heaven, Lucifer was second in majesty only to God Himself. He was the morning star.
He was not created evil.
2006-10-07 22:08:30 · answer #6 · answered by kimandchris2 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Self Attain Nature (Satan)
2006-10-07 21:48:41 · answer #7 · answered by ken-k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Satan is a fallen angel, I believe he had something to do with music, anyway just like Adam and Eve he chose his own fate. We are not God's puppets.
2006-10-07 21:53:48 · answer #8 · answered by easinclair 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
to my understanding God did not create satan. He created himself, he used 2 be a good angel...so yeah. Also, for there's a good adn bad for everything. Everything has its opposite.
2006-10-07 21:48:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
devil does not combat against God lol He only Punishes The Sinners...And devil's grasping For Souls that's Why i think of He needs to effect human beings to tutor To The Darkside...devil can not combat God Its movies guy
2016-10-19 00:30:09 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋