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
2006-12-15 14:54:37
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answered by Anonymous
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Satan's Bible
2006-12-13 02:22:54
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answered by A Light to Burn All the Empires♥ 3
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The Devil's Apocrypha. It's admittedly a fictional book, but is basically the Bible as told from Satan's standpoint. It's interesting.
Of course, there is always the Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey, though in a shocking twist, you'll find that those who follow the Satanic Bible don't actually worship the Devil, or even admit his existence...
2006-12-13 02:22:33
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answered by Anonymous
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The Satanic Bible. It's a good read I highly recommend it. :)
2015-10-19 15:51:05
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answered by Kathryn 1
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The Satanic Bible. Created by the founder of the Church of Satan.
2015-04-29 17:39:56
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answered by Anonymous
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RW is correct. That is the only book of the sort.
Go ahead and choose that for your best answer.
What is the doctrine of the Trinity, when did it become accepted and where is it found in scripture?
2006-12-13 02:24:47
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answered by Dana G 1
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well there is a "Satanic bible" but that has nothing to do with the devil.
in fact it was by a guy called "Anton Lavey" and its about worshipping the self as God,
2006-12-13 02:20:56
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answered by Anonymous
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It's called joyofsatan.org ,
Young warrior
2016-06-16 12:13:51
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answered by ? 2
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Satan tell us in the All Jilwah
"I WAS, AM NOW , AND SHALL HAVE NO END."
2015-09-03 14:45:41
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answered by David T 3
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The Al-Jilwah
www joyofsatan c0m
2015-09-03 11:51:57
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answered by josh 1
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