Would you call him back?
2006-10-11 15:42:53 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And why or why not?
2006-10-11 15:46:52 · update #1
First of all, caller ID does not take messages. If you mean caller ID indicated it was Satan and there was a voice mail or answering machine message requesting call back then I would return his call last. The Easter Bunny, Great Pumpkin, and Santa Claus have been waiting for me to call them back, too! Not to mention Jesus, who never seems to answer the phone. . .
2006-10-12 14:43:06 · answer #1 · answered by Speedo Inspector 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and tell him that I'm on the do-not-call list.
Seriously, this sounds like a new version of a legend associated with a certain girls' college in the northeast. Supposedly there was an old-fashioned row of wood-and-glass phone cubicles in one of the dorms. Also supposedly, from time to time a student would pick up the receiver to make a call in one of those booths, and someone would speak on the other end of the line and tell the girl he was Satan. One of my friends claims to have had that experience and, not surprisingly, fainted dead away afterwards.
2006-10-11 22:49:43 · answer #2 · answered by silver.graph 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sure I would call him. 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’s 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
2006-10-14 22:04:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd ask Satan where he was calling from, then I'd tell him where he's going.
2006-10-12 01:50:14 · answer #4 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope I'd flush the phone .
2006-10-11 22:48:23 · answer #5 · answered by Geedebb 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would think someone was trying to pull a trick on me.
2006-10-11 22:46:59 · answer #6 · answered by harridan5 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I often do. It comes in the form of "oh it doesn't matter if you watch that movie", "oh it doesn't matter if you have those cookies", "oh, it doesn't matter if you go to that website"....get my drift?
P.S. I can be quite the idiot.
2006-10-11 22:46:10 · answer #7 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't call you do I?
2006-10-12 11:36:26 · answer #8 · answered by Karrien Sim Peters 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would assume it was a hoax and delete!
2006-10-11 22:53:35 · answer #9 · answered by smoothshirl1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, Peter...and don't ever calll me at this number.
2006-10-11 22:46:08 · answer #10 · answered by joe_on_drums 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋