When Satan locked god in his cage, did he throw away the key? If he did, is god going to be locked up forever?
2006-11-20 09:02:19 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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
2006-11-22 12:30:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry that you feel this way but you have it oh so wrong is it dyslexia of the worse kind you need to know first God is every where He is not locked in a cage and i am not sure if the devil is still in his hole but his Buddy's the fallen ones are every were too and the are battling over your soul. i know the devil will soon possess a man that will be killed and resurrected from the dead but this man will be raised by Satan him self and claim to be God and his throne will be in Jerusalem he will bring you 666 i know you didn't ask for this answer but there you go.
2006-11-20 17:16:06 · answer #2 · answered by jamnjims 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
On the contrary:
Revelation 20:1-3
1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit[a] and a great chain. 2And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.
Read on- Satan will be captured forever in the next paragraph in Chapter 20.
2006-11-20 17:07:12 · answer #3 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one can lock God in any cage. I've never heard about this. God sent Satan to hell. Not the other way around.
2006-11-20 17:07:00 · answer #4 · answered by Track need i say more 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What God are you talking about? A god that could be locked in a cage wouldn't be much of a god.
2006-11-20 17:06:16 · answer #5 · answered by arubislander 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't matter, because the lock was made by Kryptonite. Many of those models can be opened with Bic pens.
2006-11-20 17:20:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i guess i would hav to believe in god first to answer... but i will anyways, no, god supposedly (according to the story i know) exceeds all boundaries and couldnt b kept in a cage or by any bounds at all.
2006-11-20 17:05:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow you must be having a nightmare you need to wake up and wake up immediately
2006-11-20 17:22:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋