Did Satan create these religions before Christianity to deceive us?

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Answer 1

No Satan that I know of.

Answer 2

Christianity created Satan...

Answer 3

Not hardly. Let's take a rational approach... God knows everything, even before it happens. He knew Satan was going to fall. Now, taking that into consideration, God would know that Satan was going to create other religions........ why would God then tell you in the Old Test NOT to believe in the Pagan Traditions.. not to have anything to do with them AT ALL. And then turn around and mimic those Pagan beliefs he just told you not to believe?

Doesn't make much sense, in my lowly opinion.

Answer 4

It is all the same myth recycled over and over. This does not mean that Jesus or God are not real.

As far as your question about satan, 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 5

And then Satan created all the other ones after Christianity right? How convinient. I could use this same logic and replace the word Christianity for Islam, Judaism, or even something as ridiculous as Scientology.

Answer 6

According to the bible satan cannot 'create' anything, he can only pervert it. So I guess that means christianity must be the perversion of whatever was the first true religion. Hmmm....

Answer 7

Satan is a deceiver. A deceiver takes truth and slips a lie in the middle of it in order to disguise the lie. The Bible teaches that Satan seeks to get men to worship him so that he can supplant the true God of Heaven here on earth in the lives of human beings. That being the case, it is entirely possible that Satan is behind every false religion on this planet or at least a majority of them. Satan doesn't let people know that they are worshiping him, he seeks to counterfeit God as closely as he can in all of the false religions. He takes historical truths and divine revelations and then distorts them just enough to change the focus of worship from the God to himself.

1 Corinthians 10:19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.

You may ask, "Well, how could Satan start a fake religion like Christianity before Jesus came to earth?". The answer lies in prophecy and Satan's apparent knowledge of the Scriptures given to the Israelites and his access to the court of Heaven before finally being kicked out. For instance in Genesis 3 God told Adam and Eve that the "seed of the woman" would crush the serpent. Notice that "seed of the woman" implies the virgin birth since it is the man who give his seed to the woman.

Peter affirms that the plan of salvation was already waiting to be put into place before the world was made.

1 Peter 1:17 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, 18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for your sake,

Before he wrote that Peter explains that the plan of God was generally known in Heaven but the prophets and the angels didn't know the exact time that it would be put into effect.

1 Peter 1:10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. 12 It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.

Answer 8

No.

That's just idiotic.

In every culture in ancient times, people tried to explain how the universe came into being, how life came into being, and what place humans have in the world.

These are the foundations of religion - any religion - and they are different in different places because the people were basing their explanation on *their* environment, *their* poetic imagination, *their* experiences.

That's why there are different religions. Not a Bogey-man trying to trick you into believing anything.

Answer 9

Satan did not exist before Christianity...

Answer 10

Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. The devil has had a copy cat of Gods names. He tries to get us to have other gods. All religons that reject the LORD God are false religions. Jesus came to show us the Way and make a Way for us to be restored to God in relationship.

Satan does his best to prevent our salvation from happening, by even appearing like an angel of light. The abomination of desolation will claim to be good as God and stand in the temple claiming to be God.

Answer 11

Jesus was Jewish.

Please research other philosophies other than your own. I promise you won't go to hell. God did not just visit the Christians. A fool would believe his own thinking is any better than another person's.