2006-10-14 12:51:46 · 13 answers · asked by FreeThinker 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Cherish...if Jesus was god then he most certainly was in heaven.
2006-10-14 12:54:44 · update #1
Sandy...I disagree, if we are to believe the bible then it is God who created Satan fully knowing what Satan would do. So why did God create Satan at all?
BTW...I don't believe in the Bible but according to it anyway, Satan was an obedient angel, God created Satan to tempt and test creation. I'm pretty sure that that is how the Jews interpret it too.
2006-10-14 12:56:39 · update #2
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 15:07:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Creator(God) Made and assigned the task of being the tempter of the human soul and also to try and keep Jesus from completing his mission on Earth.
St. Lucifer is not a tempter either. He was defeated in the war in the heavens through PRIDE when God told him he was to be this Planets Guardian Angel. and thought He could run creation better than the Creator. Him and the other Angels that sided with him are awaiting the Day of Judgment in a type of solitary confinement.
The Catholic Church Dropped the ST. from his name and made him one of the rulers of the levels of Hell when they adopted the AS ABOVE SO BELOW policy which means there are 9 levels of each and a ruler for each level.
2006-10-14 20:25:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The real question here is, why would an angel betray his creator? Unless the creator isn't perfect or has done something against his angel. Satan probably had his reasons but because many believe in God as the divide goodness their perspective will be warped. I am not satanic, but atheist and I don’t believe in god. I ask these questions to prove how absurd religions are .
2006-10-14 20:00:52 · answer #3 · answered by Reload 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When souls go to heaven, Satan will have been cast into hell. Lucifer was in heaven before the Fall. No one tempted him. He was given freewill just as we are, and his pride overcame him. He is the father of temptation, the author of it. I.e., he created it.
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Because God knows all that ever has happened, is happening, or will happen does not mean that we do not choose.
As for "Why did God create Satan at all?" you will have to ask God, and if it is his will that you know, he will tell you. If it is not his will that you know, he will not. It is not my job to sit in judgment of God's creation, nor is it my place to ask why he does what he does. To do so is placing myself on a level with or above God, which is blasphemy.
2006-10-14 19:54:03 · answer #4 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If sin is found in an angelic being they get removed from heaven. Satan tried to usurp God's identity. He decided to do it himself.
Satan is the big red dragon whose tail (or tall tale) caused the fall of 1/3 of God's Angels.
Don't worry all the little ones who died before they had a chance for a life on earth replace + those angels who fell.
2006-10-14 19:58:56 · answer #5 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one tempted Satan. God gave him everything he wanted but then turned around and gave stewardship of the earth to man. Being spoiled as he was Satan naturally got mad at this because he thought he was better than man and thus should be over man. It was his own pride and spoiled like a child behavior that got him were he was. Try this test- take a child who has been given everything and then see how he acts around children who are less fortunate then him. He will try to rule them because he thinks he is better. Watch and you will see just what happened in the moments before Lucifer's fall.
2006-10-14 19:58:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We all have free will to choose to sin just as Satan did and those of us who will live for eternity will also have it for eternity. Satan was not tempted by someone else. He, as we do some times, just decided on his own to sin. He then went about trying to tempt everyone else.
Satan's sin was not predestined to happen, but God knew it would happen when He made Lucifer. God's foreknowledge does not mean there is predestination. Predestination eliminates free choice, so predestination does not exist. We do not have destinies that are predetermined. We decide what our destiny will be. That is what free choice is. Much of the philosophical statements in Star Wars are not true. Destiny does not determine what a person decides to do.
2006-10-14 19:56:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Lucifer was the most beautiful angel ever, he walked with God in heaven. Lucifer, with his own God given free will, decided he wanted to be like God, better than that, wanted to be better than God. His greed and ego got in his way. God cast him out of heaven. We all have free wills that God has given us and it all depends how we use those free wills. Do you want to use yours going toward God or toward satan (Lucifer)?
2006-10-14 22:06:07 · answer #8 · answered by morris 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one tempted Satan- he sinned of his free will. Not every sin we commit is the result of temptation by demonic forces either. Man's sin nature does a good enough job by itself.
2006-10-14 19:55:14 · answer #9 · answered by Matthew R 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Satan is a spiritual creature and he wanted mankind for himself, remember Satan rebelled against god!
2006-10-14 19:55:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋