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
2006-12-09 05:59:57
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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A contract is only valid if satan keeps his part. Satan never keeps his part of the contract. It may seem so, but he doesn't have authority over your soul.
Who is the God who keeps His Word? The LORD God. So, just repent to God for this accult act you did. Jesus shed His own blood for the remission of your sins. Go to a bible faith Christian Church. Confess Jesus Christ your Lord and believe in your heart the Atonement for your sins & Resurrection. You will be born again. Reborn of the Spirit. Spiritual blindness got you in trouble with satan. When you are born of God, you have all authority over satan and his scemes.
You have your soul. If you didn't have your soul, you would be missing. It is the breath of life in your body. What you need is to be restored spiritually. That is the born again experience through faith in Jesus Christ.
2006-12-08 05:39:38
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answer #2
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answered by t_a_m_i_l 6
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Everyone else's answer is wrong - if you've sold your soul to the devil and you want it back you have to play him in a game.
Games like twister are good (see Bill & Ted's bogus journey, where they played the Reaper) because in games of skill and strategy like Chess and Go he has lots of practice.
Also what did you get for your soul? If the goods you received from Satan in return for your soul are defective you may return them under the warranty for a FULL refund as long as it is within 30 days.
Next time be more careful of trading things on Ebay. Regards
2006-12-08 05:36:06
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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Get on your knees and pray something like this; Lord God Jehovah, I admit my sins before you and know that you you sent your son Jesus to die for me. I plead the precious blood of the Lamb over those sins , Father. From here on out I will accept your son Jesus as my Lord and savior into my heart forever. I renounce Satan and his demons and ask for the Holy Spirit to lead me and direct me and I ask for divine protection in the name of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen
Read your Bible and get into a Bible based church. You will have to fight Satan because he will be angry. But the Bible says that greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. It also says that all things are possible with God. Call on the name of Jesus if you get into trouble. He can and will deliver you if you are sincere. Just remember, that Satan does not own your soul it is Jesus who paid the purchase price with his blood. All you have to do is accept him. God bless you.
2006-12-08 05:56:27
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answer #4
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answered by Marie 7
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I do not believe Satan exists as an independent entity.
Satan is a caricature of one of human natures less appealing characteristics, IE greed, hatred, ignorance, bigotry, selfishness, cruelty etc etc.
I guess that the only way for you to free yourself from such Psychological fetters is in redressing what you want from life, and how you can attain contentment.
You cannot sell what is priceless.
2006-12-08 06:44:12
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answered by Anonymous
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Just as others said concerning asking Jesus to come into your heart, but you have to truly cry out to Jesus and ask Him to save you. You have made a choice to follow satan and you can turn from him at anytime, but it's all on what you want. God if faithful and He has already made away for you and that's through His Son Jesus Christ. Choose to live for God and ask Jesus to deliver you from the powers of darkness.
2006-12-08 05:46:31
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answered by unknown 4
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Since, in your answer, you have not given the precise details of the terms you agreed with Satan, it is not possible to give an exact answer. Nonetheless, the following (simplified) example may be of use to you in understanding the situation. In order to aid understanding, the part of the customer in the example has been given the name 'Fred'. Fred is a purely fictional character.
-Fred agrees to sell his soul to Satan for £20,000.
-Satan subsequently assumes ownership of Fred's soul.
-Despite Satan's high ownership of souls, he does not have a correspondingly high desire to possess cash (due to the fact that he does not exist and therefore does not require any).
-Since cash is of little value to Satan, the sum required to re-acquire the soul will be very high - in this example we posit the sum to be in the region of £2,000,000.
-Fred does not have £2,000,000 available in his bank account, and turns to financing options (ie, loans and mortgages) to raise the necessary capital.
-Forty-five years after he bought back his soul, Fred has paid a sum total of £6,785,203 after interest.
2006-12-08 07:13:42
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answer #7
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answered by Raygun 2
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It's not yours to sell, so there's nothing to get back. Very clearly stated in Rom 8:38-39 "For I am persuaded (simply means to trust or have confidence), that neither death, nor life, nor angels (Satan is an angel), nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
No matter what you've said or done in the past, it's all under the blood of Jesus if you choose it to be. HERE'S THE KEY - If you accept the blood of Jesus as payment for all your sins, your heart and soul become His. And once you give your heart to Him, NOTHING will ever separate you from His love. No matter what that liar, Satan, tells you. Satan's just along for the ride too - and he's trying to take as many people with him as he can convince not to make the choice. The Creator of all things CONTROLS all things. Satan is just a thing.
After you turn things over to God, Satan will be there, trying to make you believe other things, like you can lose your salvation, that your sins are too big, you've made too many mistakes. But Jesus also said in John 10:27-30 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one."
No one can pluck you out of His care. EVER. But you gotta make the decision to be in His hand. And all you have to do to be there is ask.
2006-12-10 23:08:54
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answered by Angela D 1
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First of all you never had a soul to sell.
Second did you ever hear that the snake you feared at night just was a piece of rope in the light of day.
That's what happens to your devil in the light.
2006-12-08 05:40:25
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answered by nischal 3
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Well if this is a serious question then ask God to forgive you, and ask Jesus to come into your heart and be your saviour. He will and you will have your soul back.
Satan won't want you to do this so watch out for his lies.
2006-12-08 05:34:29
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answered by nettyone2003 6
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