If satan punishes us for being bad, does that mean he is working for god?

Question

Why doesnt he reward us for being bad?

Well ive heard he pokes your @rse your *** with hot pokers for all eternity. Thats where i get that.

Its a valid question sarge whats yer face.

Answer 1

All of the people saying satan doesn't punish you but tempts you, what about when your priest or whoever tells you that in going to hell you suffer for eternity? Doesn't the bible say hell is a terrible place of suffering? Therefore the devil, if you believe in it, is working with god. If there was no devil in the christian stories then everyone would go to heaven. That didn't suit the church so they needed to create a devil, an opposite to their god as a way of controling people. Think about it, if you tell a child that by not believing in god they will go to hell where they will tormented by demons for eternity they will conform to the church's ideal, no matter which denomination as essentially they are all the same.

Answer 2

you're an atheist, are not you? I save analyzing your questions and the solutions are distinctly obtrusive, so i won't be able to help yet think of you do no longer in all threat have faith this schlock. That, and you gave me terrific answer on an before query. No theist might've given 10 factors to a evidence that concluded that the two Jesus wasn't the son of God or the Bible wasn't the be conscious of God. yet i'm going to respond to besides: if i will get court docket-area tickets to this conflict, and watch God throw devil right into a lake of hearth, THEN i'm going to have faith. in any different case, no cube.

Answer 3

In the end God is the one who rewards and punishes... not Satan

and God superintends all things and will even use Satan ultimately to work toward His glory

Answer 4

Satan if there is a Satan does not punish, he has no power but he can tempt you.
Mind you there are those on earth who do that and lead you astray.
And No he does not work for God he works against him.

Answer 5

The book of Job in the OT opens with the surprising revelation that Satan has not fallen from Heaven: he is still an angel of God, or at the very least His sales representative charged with the temptation of human beings and acting as an "agent provocateur" (I do love that phrase, says AgProv) to attempt to get humans to behave badly and renounce the love of God.

This is so far at odds with the picture of Satan presented elsewhere in the Bible that you have to highlight the inconsistency and ask what is going on here. Far from being banished from Heaven for all eternity, you have Satan standing at the throne of God, making a series of progress reports on his attempts to spiritually defeat the human Job. The inference is that in his role as Tempter, Satan has free access to God and may visit Heaven to report back to the CEO any time he likes.

Also, the person who really is being an utter bastard here isn't Satan, it's God. It is God who says things like "Satan, slay all his livestock and see if he stops praising me" or "Oh, kill his wife and all his kids, then see if he curses me" or "Visit him with a plague of boils and supperating ulcers, really filthy infected smelly ones, and see if he stops praising my name"

I mean, what has this poor guy DONE for God to gratuitously take it out on him like this, just to win a bet with the Devil? What we see in the book of Job is a capricious God, dealing out curses and favours just for the hell of it, and a dutiful Satan doing nothing more or less than God tells him to do - just another member of the heavenly host but one charged with a special task in the world. (and if Satan has not "fallen", then Beelezebub, Lucifer and the rest must also be respected parts of the heavenly machine, too)
This is a picture of the Devil I can live with, and it's there in the Bible in black and white, folks, book of Job...


whoever said the Bible doesn't contradict itself, as this is a very big internal contradiction...

Answer 6

Satan doesn't punish us for being bad. He only has the power that God gives him.

Answer 7

Satan doesn't punish you for being bad. He tempts you to be bad so that you will be removed from the Love of God. Sin, in most cases, contains its own punishment.

Answer 8

the satan is an instrument of G-D, and only does what G-D commands for him to do. since G-D is the commander of all light and dark. and if you do not do your job with G-D, then you let the satan do your job for you without G-D. as G-D instructs the angels of both the light and dark, on how to deal with you. they do not have a free will, but do as G-D commands and fashioned them. all fallen angels are appointed, by design to fall by G-D.

Answer 9

God doesn't PUNISH. Theres always consequences to what you do, we were blessed with free will which means dealing with consequences of our free will. Satan tries to sabotage everything good and positive... God bless

Answer 10

SATAN DOES NOT PUNISH US, GOD DOES. WHEN ONE SINS THEY NEED TO BE PUNISHED KINDA HOW WHEN YOU WERE BAD AT SCHOOL YOU GO IN TROUBLE. THROUGH PUNISHMENT GOD CAN LEAD US IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. SATAN DOESNT WORK 4 GOD. HE HATES GOD AND HE HATES HUMANS CUZ WE ARE GODS CREATIONS.