Why is Set so similar to Satan? Set is way older, did Christians just copy the story?

Question

I believe Set and Satan is just a representation of all predatorily living beings true will. Us humans are really not that much different from other meat eating animals. Why be dishonest with ourselves and claim we are any better?

Answer 1

almost everything in the bible is copied from something earlier, an earlier cult or paganism.
it is a false myth.

Answer 2

Christianity has Pagan DNA! Most of it is made up of Pagan religions.
Hell for example is from the Germanic faith, the Vikings and Saxons followed it. Hell is actually the realm of the Goddess Hella and is a resting place, the warriors are shared between Odin and Freya, Hella takes in farmers, doctors etc. The real hell, ie Hella's realm, is actually a nice place to go and I look forward to going there. Yes I follow the path of Odinism.
Even christian festivals are Pagan. Easter comes from the festival of the Germanic Goddess Eastre, they couldn't be bothered to change it much. Christmas is a few days after Yule which is a winter festival where you bring in an evergreen tree and decorate it. SOme things haven't changed have they?
The idea of a God having a son with a human is older than christianity too, ever heard of Hercules? Wasn't he a champion of the people who lived rough and travelled around helping people? There is so much more but I do not have time to list it.

Go out there people and do some research.

Answer 3

The Zodiac is a corruption of the Mazaroth, which tells the story of man's redemption in the constellations. The corruption of the Mazaroth begain in the days of Nimrod. All pagan deity systems have the same 3 basic gods/goddesses, just under different names. They are all version of the originals - Nimrod the lord of heaven, Tammuz the pagan messiah, Semiramus the queen of heaven. These last two are mentioned in the Bble as false gods - Lebanon had Baal, Tammuz, Ashtoreth Egypt had Ra, Osiris/Horus, Isis/Hathor Greece had Zeus, Dionysus, Aphrodite Rome had Jupiter, Attis, Cybele/Diana Babylon had Belus, Tammuz, Rhea/Ishtar Assyria had Ninus, Hurcules, Beltis Phoenicia had El, Bacchus, Astarte EDIT: your link covers how these beliefs stemmed from the zodiac, which explains why they all have examples of the life-death-rebirth "gods" - they could all observe the constellations, which does tell that story. But they corrupted that story, giving God's glory to pagan deities - The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. (Ps 19:1-3)

Answer 4

There are some connections between spiritual entities, but you have to be able to determine what came from what. You cannot say that Set is way older than Satan, The two are just words used to descibe beings, For instance, I can say that New Amsterdam is older than Manhatten, but they are the same place.

Whether there is a connection between Set and Satan, other than that Satan (which just means Enemy) led the rebellion against God in his days as Lucifer, the Light Bringer, and any other rebels among the spiritual entities show allegience to him.

I can confirm that the names Zeus and Deus come from the same root and that Jupiter is a corruption of Zeus Pater, or Father Zeus. The origins of the Graeco-Roman pantheon come from Northern India and may have some connectiuons with some forms of the Hindu pantheon.

Answer 5

It's a common misconception that Set is Egypt's "Satan". Set was worshipped and revered right along with all the other Gods and Goddesses. Yes, he was a bit of a troublemaker at times, but in this role he was also responsible for keeping balance. If Set could be compared to anyone--it would be more like Loki.

Answer 6

Just in case you are wondering what the Christian position is:
At the beginning of humanity, although cast out of Paradise, people still believed in God and were telling their children about faith. But soon they grew more and more estranged from God, led unsaintly and quite criminal lives, and demons appeared to them and demanded to be worshipped as gods. The true faith was afterwards revealed again to Moses, and subsequently to the prophets. When Jesus Christ came, He fulfilled many old (and somewhat vague, hence interpretable) prophecies, but He changed nothing concerning the "story of origins", including the fall of angels.
So, when we see similarities between old religions and Christianity (and Judaism, for that matter), there are basically two possible causes:
1. Some bits and pieces of the original revelation to Adam and Eve survived, but were distorted in the process.
2. The new self-made gods created new myths that resembled the old revelation, but suited their interests (of attracting worshippers towards them) better.
What Mircea Eliade wrote (and he was hardly a supporter of Christianity or Judaism, but rather a big fan of Yoga and similar practices) was that many of these Ancient religions (Babylonian, Egyptian etc.), and indeed many religions around the world, seem to include a heavenly god who had an important role in the creation of the univerese, but then retreated to heaven and left the earthly matters to lesser, but more active gods. If I remember correctly, he was speculating on the possible common origin of this belief in a heavenly god and was wondering how come it could spread out like this.
As for your last question, if you set up with such premises, there isn't much I could say about it. I tend to believe, though, that your idea of animals and/or humans might misrepresent reality more than you think.

Answer 7

The story of Set and Osiris could easily be seen in the tempation of Jesus while in the wilderness. Satan being the "evil one" trying to seduce Jesus. Set also tried this with Osiris. Osiris was the Judge of the Dead. Obviously, according to Revelation, so is Jesus, who resurrects the dead in order to judge them on the often spoken of Judgement Day.

These types of images are seen throughout Pagan cultures and religions.

We aren't any better than animals. We Are Animals. The same part of creation that animals and other living things are made from.

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

No, christians didn't copy Satan from the Egyptians. The fallen angels were these orginal gods that people worship in ancient times. They were no myth. If you notice you will heard many stories of these gods having sex with women or were part human themselves. The fallen angels corrupted themselves with women and diluted the bloodlines of Christ. Some believe their kingdom was on mars. They thought ahead and created these myths because they knew ahead of time that Christ was going to come and they wanted to create confusion .

Answer 10

Set was actually worshiped as a primary deity during several of the Egyptian dynasties. He was a Lord of Storms and an over thrower of the status quo. His energy is a bit dark and intense for my liking but he has, does and will serve a useful purpose.

Answer 11

you could well be right i keep telling people on here it was the catholics that invented the Holy Trinity (the manuscripts didn`t say that ) only the spirit the blood and the water so if they don`t have a problem dreaming up Father Son and Holy Ghost Satan is easy enough . but maybe they didn`t cause jaitaan is devil in arabic (i know you don`t write it like that) it sounds like satan with a French j . so who knows.