if you went to Starbucks, bought a truck, or watched American Idol or became a Miley Cyrus fan, then you should answer 'yes'.
2006-12-06 15:49:12 · 12 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 04:23:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Satan will try to destroy families and individuals minds.
Just tell the looser to go back to hell and then do something reallllllly nice for someone , that will piss satan off...
drink all the Starbucks you want. and laugh and cry at American Idol.
2006-12-06 15:56:31 · answer #2 · answered by its me 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
starbucks is too expensice
trucks are ugly(IMP)
and
American idol sucks ***.
Miley Cyrus.... i dont know what that is... so i wont comment.
But anyways Satan doesn't exist so the only bidding i did was of my own.
2006-12-06 16:10:44 · answer #3 · answered by Guywiththehir 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought Christianity teaches to "love loving and hate hatred"? And isn't Satan the embodiment of hatred? Or maybe this is just another one of those metaphysical conflicts that continuously show up in the Bible...
2016-05-23 02:44:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who-?What?
2006-12-06 15:53:13 · answer #5 · answered by funnana 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's funny stuff.
Oh and no he hasn't called but if he does I'll hang up on him just like the telemarketers.
2006-12-06 16:09:39 · answer #6 · answered by solemnpsycho 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can tell this question was not meant to be taken seriously, so I will not answer it.
Wait a minute....
2006-12-06 15:50:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well. satan got to me, again. oh well, i like the dark side.
2006-12-06 15:51:29 · answer #8 · answered by christina_art_of_makeup 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. But I told him to go f**k himself.
2006-12-06 16:51:06 · answer #9 · answered by sirtitus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i have an unlisted phone number
2006-12-06 15:52:03 · answer #10 · answered by John B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋