What else does the Bible say about Why Satan opposed God? Pride was the culprit, I hear. Satan said "I will"

Question

to God. Somewhere in Isaiah it says Satan took with him "a third of the stars from the sky" when he fell from Heaven. Is there anything else that discusses Satan BEFORE Adam and Eve? Like WHY he would challenge God, knowing the punishment he'd get?

Answer 1

Ezekiel 28 refers to the King of Tyre, which also refers to the angel who became Satan the devil.

He did not fell from heaven, he was thrown down to the earth (Revelation 12:7-12).

Satan challenged the sovereignty of God, by saying to Eve that they will not die when they eat the fruit, he was calling God a liar and that He was hiding something good from them. He in effect attacked the right of God to rule over man.

James 1:13 When under trial, let no one say: “I am being tried by God.” For with evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone. 14 But each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then the desire, when it has become fertile, gives birth to sin; in turn, sin, when it has been accomplished, brings forth death.

Satan was carried away by his desire to be worshipped also. His desire made him leave the true worship.
We learn a lot about the Devil when we consider Jesus’ words to religious teachers of his day: “You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a manslayer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie.”—John 8:44.

According to this, the Devil, a name meaning “slanderer,” was “a liar and the father of the lie.” He was the first creature to lie about God, and he did so back in the garden of Eden. Jehovah had said that our original parents would “positively die” if they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Through the mouth of a serpent, Satan said that those words were not true. (Genesis 2:17; 3:4) Appropriately, he is called “the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan.”—Revelation 12:9.

Answer 2

The Bible doesn't give a lot of detils. The part of the Bible that says Satan took a third of the stars was actually Revelaton 8:12, so that's future not past according to many interpretations, but certainly not before Christ came (and therefore not at the beginning of time.) If you look at the other passages people aply to Satn more closely, a lot of times you'll find out they aren't being applied to Satan by the Bible. For example, a lot of people use Isaiah 14 to say that Satan was a beutiful angel untill he fell... but if you read it in context Isiah is using Lucifer (which means "day star") to refer to a human king! Not an angel or demon, but a human! Read Is 13-15 to get the whole picture. The first couple chapters of Genesis, Job, and the Gospels and Revelation have most of what's said about Satan. It doesn't really tell us anything about the nature of Satan's rebellion.

Here's my guess. Satan wasn't created without a purpose, God had a plan for him. Given his name (it would be something akin to "procecuting atorney" in modern speach) I think tht purpose was to identify evil to separate it from God. Problem was, he wasn't satisfied with just controlling what was seen to be evil already, so he tried to make people evil to bring them under his controll instead of God's. That's how I see it anyway.

Answer 3

Satan is not as powerful as God, so he is not "all-knowing". He would have no idea at that point what God would do to him if he rebelled.

The bible says that Lucifer was jealous of God, and thought that people should worship him instead. At the time, Lucifer was one of the most beautiful angels and is believed to be the highest ranking. It says in Job I believe that Lucifer was the worship leader of the choir of angels in heaven.

Lucifer rebelled against God and the "stars from the sky" is another way of saying angel, or heavenly host. He convinced a third of the angels to rebel against God and to worship and follow him instead (sounds kinda like Hitler doesnt it?).

When God told him he would roam about the earth it was a punishment, because Satan wanted his own "heaven". Also, when the time comes for Satan and his followers to suffer the final punishment, they will be thrown into the lake of fire along with the unbelievers.

Hope I answered your question!

Answer 4

Satan knew, and did not care, he is not all knowing, but he does know that God will win in the end- for God overcomes him and is more powerful, and once he was thrown down to earth he knew he would rule the earth for a short time and win people over to him...and that is all he cared about...that he could lead people away from God...that is his main mission. But OH he knows that it is Jesus Christ who has the victory! That is why this world is getting worse, another reason, satan is doing his best at getting people away from the truth, and we who are believe in Jesus are doing our best in SHARING the truth and proclaiming it, so that many might be saved!

Answer 5

Satan refused to sereve God's creation, man. Now he is hell bent on destroying that creation.

Answer 6

Yeah Satan wanted the glory to himself and not to Glory his Father. Christ, would go to the earth to atone for the sins of the world, but the glory would be "to the Father."

I am LDS, also known as Mormon, and in Moses 4, a book inspired by God and comparable to the Bible says:

1 And I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine honor.
2 But, behold, my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me—Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.
3 Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be cast down;
4 And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice.

Hope it helps

Answer 7

satan decided he could be a god; his own god and did not need God.
big
mistake.
by the way, unbelievers think that way too.
they do not think they need God or would rather serve their own earthly gods.
big
mistake.