christians brainwash themselves daily. you cant even get a bad grade on a test withouth christians thinking itsdemonic influence. you guys are soooooooo weird and scary. dont bite me you wackos
2006-12-03 16:22:25 · 14 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
2006-12-07 04:29:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brainwash? demonic influence, weird? scary? biting wackoos? wow! these are strong words coming from someone much HOLIER? hmmmmm... try to learn why Christians act, think , react like they do, read brother and learn, so u will not give commetns like this whatever denominations u may have had
2006-12-03 16:33:36 · answer #2 · answered by mylesr77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And here I thought is was good=God and bad=everything else. Because there are a lot of non-Christian religions out there that a lot of Christians automatically call "devil worship" because it isn't Christianity.
2006-12-03 16:35:32 · answer #3 · answered by Stephen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uhhhhhhhh okay I failed Algebra but I didn't think it was the devil at work, I just thought math sucks. Every event isn't God vs. Satan, but every sin is essentially righteousness vs. wickedness and whichever path you take is a step towards or away from righteousness.
2006-12-03 16:30:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice job thinking ALL Christians relate reality and life with demonic mischief. Where did you even get that idea?
2006-12-03 16:25:53 · answer #5 · answered by Cindy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was considering adding an intelligent answer to your question until I clicked on it and noted you took a turn into left field with your added comments.
2006-12-03 16:34:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where do you live??? I have never met anyone who thinks that way !!!!!! I don't even think you're influenced by demons, I just think you're ignorant !!!!
2006-12-03 16:42:28 · answer #7 · answered by amom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think most Christians think this way.
2006-12-03 16:25:08 · answer #8 · answered by Nick T 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I DON'T KNOW OF ANYONE WHO IS ACTUALLY BRAINWASHED. i KNOW I'M NOT AND NEITHER ARE MY KIDS. AS FAR AS TEST SCORES GO, DON'T ALL KIDS THINK THEIR TEACHERS ARE ALIENS OR MONSTERS OR SOMETHING OTHER THAN HUMAN?
2006-12-03 16:27:40 · answer #9 · answered by creeklops 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it must be nice to live in a world that is so completely black and white
2006-12-03 16:30:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋