Is satan the good guy or that bad guy?

Question

Reading the bible, it sure is hard to tell:
1. Satan tells Adam and Eve the truth about the tree of knowledge and is condemned by God for telling them the TRUTH.
2. Satan NEVER KILLED a single person in the bible, while God killed innocent women, children, and babies.
3. Adam and Eve made the mistake but ALL mankind must suffer for it.
4. God tells you to kill your own disobedient children in the bible.
5. God says that Satan is the problem and causes sin but can't kill Satan? Maybe God is just using Satan as a scapegoat for his own crimes.
6. In the bible it actually says "God created evil and chaos and death" : Deuteronomy 30: 15 (KJV)
7. In the bible it says God sends "evil spirits" : Judges 9: 23 (KJV)
Maybe this Jehovah guy is evil and not satan...Hmmmm

Answer 1

Satan did not tell the truth to Adam and Eve. Instead he slandered God and mankind. The bible book of Job makes it crystal clear that Satan continues to slander mankind.

(Job 1:9-11) Satan answered Jehovah and said: “Is it for nothing that Job has feared God? 10 Have not you yourself put up a hedge about him and about his house and about everything that he has all around? The work of his hands you have blessed, and his livestock itself has spread abroad in the earth. 11 But, for a change, thrust out your hand, please, and touch everything he has and see whether he will not curse you to your very face.”


The Scriptures quite plainly show that Satan is a killer.

(John 8:44) You are from your father the Devil... That one was a manslayer when he began


The rest of this so-called "question" similarly distorts the truth and disagrees with the bible.

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Answer 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

Answer 3

Hmmm Very interesting theory....

I like the fact you have used actual quotes, as no doubt soon you will be bombarded with preachers callin you...

My theory on the" who's good/bad " debate is that you have to have one to balance out the other, i don't care whom that is or portrayed as ...

DEVIL reversed LIVED
LIVE reversed EVIL

All about balance , the bible is a book of Chinese whispers which has be in over drive for the last 2000yrs....

Personally i would rather make my own mind up, as many priest i have questioned on the big G debate can only say i have to accept miracles for the Q they cant answer great !!!!


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Answer 4

Of course satan is evil. God told eve not to eat from the tree of knowledge because of the consiquences.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden'?" 2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'" 4 But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband.


The serpent said to eve that you will not die. But the proof is she did.

Satan controls people and he decieves people but when you eventually burn in hell he wont help you becasue he tricked you.

Answer 5

If there is a Satan, he indeed is acting within the approval limit of God. God has not created anybody or thing greater than His own power and control.

Answer 6

1. Satan deceived Adam and Eve into disobedience to God and were justly punished for their action because they knew better. God said no, and they did it anyway.

2. Satan doesn't have the power to kill anyone unless God grants him the power to do so. Remember, Satan is God's pawn to be used in bringing about God's will on earth. Read the Book of Job. It says that Satan brought hardship to Job's life. And guess what one of those hardships were. All of his children DIED. So I guess you were wrong about Satan killing anyone.

3. Absolutely. Remember that God knew Adam and Eve and walked with them in the Garden of Eden. We cannot do this because of our sin. But imagine knowing God so well and then directly disobeying the only thing God said not to do. This punishment by God reveals how accountable we are to God for disobeying Him our entire lives. God is holy and God is just. He punishes sin. Adam and Eve clearly sinned against God and they paid for it and all their offspring.

4. Don't know your reference for that one.

5. Wrong concept. God is going to destroy Satan and his angels in the eternal lake of fire. Read Revelations. In the end Satan is going to be destroyed. Again God is Holy, Satan rebelled against God and will ultimately pay for his crimes.

6. Deuteronomy 30:15: "See I have set before thee this day life and good, death and evil." (KJV) Where do you see the word "create" in this verse?

7. Yes He did. And He did it because in the course of God's providence, there appeared jealousy, distrust, and hate. God allowed it to work as punishment for the idolatry and mass murder.
God uses evil to punish. A good judge punishes the criminal. God in his goodness promises to punish the unrepentant. Please stop fighting against God and repent of your sins and trust Jesus to save you from God's wrath. This is the real deal. God is not playing around. This is not a dress rehearsal. Time is of the essence. You are not given the promise of tomorrow. Please don't die in your sins or God will judge you in accordance to his righteousness, and the end thereof I would tremble to speculate.

Answer 7

Satan is the evil bad guy.He tempts us to disobey Gods word in the bible.

Answer 8

Check spelling ...well , I'm always with satintin. I know he is far more better to belive that he is everywhere. I see evil everywhere. No sound of god. Real heros of modern day mankind are not the followers of god. They who thought beyond the god. Like me. I invented the bulb. I said- Religion is dumb.

Answer 9

in accordance to the theistic Satanists, he's not the undesirable guy, YHWH is the undesirable guy and lies approximately his place. They view devil by way of fact the author deity and YHWH by way of fact the evil one out to enslave humanity and could use the bible and the habit of the YHWH followers to instruct their element. for my section, i'm not into dualism. that's a unfavorable activity to play. once you're taking the style of primitive black/white, solid/evil view of the divine you have a tendency to view additionally the self as "solid" and all people who disagrees with you as "evil" and as a result straightforward activity for the forces of "solid". that's the reason African Christians have no concern slaughtering non-Christians or people who're the "incorrect" form of Christian (by way of fact they are evil or they had conform) and in some Islamic worldwide places they do a similar venture to those that're the "incorrect" form of Muslim (Sunni vs Shia being the main nicely regularly occurring conflict between Muslim factions). i think of the worldwide may well be a greater advantageous place if people only dropped dualism fullyyt and found out that there is no deity of any pantheon that has ever been rather and only "solid" or rather and only "evil" except you're prepared to warp the meanings of those words to the element they replace into in fact meaningless.

Answer 10

Sounds about right.... but then the bible is fairly inconsistant like that.... which leads to christianity as a whole being all the more inconsistant.