What do you think, and how does this make you feel?

Question

Could Satan be a name God chooses to use for himself, when backed into a corner, and is forced to do something harmful in the name of benevlence?

This is a concept of my own, and not of a faith in particular.

Answer 1

An interesting concept. I don't believe I've ever heard it before...
I don't think I agree with it. It doesn't really affect me emotionally.

I suppose that if God created us in His image & we have the capacity for both good & evil, creative and destructive, it stands to reason that He does as well...2 sides of the same being....hmmm. Well there's already God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now there's Satan, God's evil twin too? :) So instead of a trinity it's more of a quartet...?

The way that I understood it, Satan was one of God's angels who rebelliously refused to obey God & chose to reign in Hell rather than serve in Heaven. He chose to turn away from God & go his own way...but this is just what I heard! Tee hee! I'm certainly no expert in theology. I only know what I've heard and what I believe. Faith depends more on feeling than on reason. I'm always curious to hear other viewpoints. It doesn't shake my faith.

:)

Answer 2

The name"God" itself you gave to an unknown force. Then you found out that the unknown force had a good side and a bad side. Then you called the bad one "satan".

When you are creating all these yourself it is upto you to come back with yet another theory, as mentioned above.

May be , like the James Bond movie, for a little thrill you could make the satan a female, if you like!

The creator is far above all these , friend. His ( its?) creation is a preplanned , well rehearsed drama full of twists and thrills. Just sit back , relax and enjoy the show for as long as you are alive.By knowing the satan intimately you are not going to escape your happiness or misery.

Answer 3

That is a very interesting question and Im sure alot of people are crawling in their skin right now. What I think would be more accurate is to say people created a figure that represented Good (God) and a figure responsible for evil (Devil)...If you break it down that simply it sounds kind of silly like other ancient mythologies or even primitive cultures account of the cosmos. God in my opinion does nothing but creates and gives us free will to do as we please. You must understand that without bad there is no such thing as good, without black there is no white, without up there is no such thing as down. This material world is a world of relativity, polar opposites, a dichotomy of this and that. People can label anything whatever they do or others do whatever they want. The bottom line is a thing that IS cannot be in the absence of that which it IS NOT. Good, bad, its all part of the evolution of the divine....

Answer 4

I think this is a severely erroneous reality. How do I feel about it? Well, it makes me feel utterly sad that if this is what people believe, then there is a great and genuine deficit in truly understanding Who God really Is.

To reconcile the state of good and evil (God and Satan) into a singular source, as in Jungian Psychology, or even in George Lucas's "The Force", is entirely false by virtue of Universal Dualism, and even the dualistic nature of physics, quantum physics and the new emergent hyperphysics of Superstring and Supersymmetry Theories, where the superstrings are composed of two parts, both male and female, and called "Heterotic".

Satan is not an intangible concept, or a cowardly mask for God; he is an actual trans-dimensional being of absolute evil personified, the utter antithesis to God, the Divine Nature. God is LOVE and Is incompatible to the act of "do(ing) something harmful in the name of benevolence." This is something that is simply not present in His Nature. Whereas, Satan is HATE. He is the “Proto-Monocontaminant” (Lucifer) who precipitated the Primordial Fall of a former Perfect Reality (Paleo-Supraeoverse), creating our current and secondary degenerated system (Trans-Universal Superstructure). This is referred to as “Paradise Lost” by quantum physicists. Satan mounted this assault for his hatred and jealously of God, Himself.

In terms of your premise where it appears that God is "forced" into taking harmful action (and using the facade of Satan to mask that action from Himself), God states quite adamantly, "Vengeance is Mine." If a harmful action occurs it is due to a violation of existential spiritual laws that permeate throughout the entire Trans-Universal Superstructure, and also due to Satan, himself, not God. That violation is called "sin". The spiritual laws exist to "protect" us from harm and death in this now corrupt and fallen system, to protect us out of God's LOVE for us . If we violate them (sin), then harm and death will be the direct result. It's like the laws of electricity. If we obey the laws then we benefit from them. Like when you turn on a light switch and the dark room is lit up and then you can read a book. But if you violate the laws (sin) of electricity by jamming a knife into an electric socket, then harm and even death will come to you.

Additionally, when God gave a directive to destroy a people in the Old Testament Period (prior to the new covenant under Christ), this was to cleanse the land of a people saturated in sin, and is embodied in another "cosmic law of the land" found in the Book of Leviticus, conveying that if the land becomes saturated with perversion (sin), then the land will automatically (due to Trans-Existential Laws) "vomit out its inhabitants". Subsequently, the sinful people were necessarily subject to a foreign military invasion and completely annihilated from the land.

So in answer to your question: No, Satan is not a mere name that God chooses to use for Himself if backed into a corner, forcing Him to do something harmful in the name of benevolence.

Answer 5

You are inaccurately articulating the concept of the Hebrew faith. There is only one God and he is responsible for everything, good or bad.

Answer 6

without dark there is no light...one cannot call itself light if there is no dark...