I know its known for Christians but im looking for other religions that believe in Satan or a Devil if there are any others or if Christians are the only ones that believe in that kind of thing.
2007-01-06 07:48:54 · 14 answers · asked by Era 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I understand all religions have a good and bad side to it. As far as im reading (researching), only Christians believe in a Satan(Devil).
2007-01-06 09:51:29 · update #1
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
2007-01-10 03:49:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can a skeleton come back to existence? Are you announcing God isn't able to do this which he has promised? do you understand which you have have been given come from nowhere? the full universe has been made from no longer something and you're doubting God's capability and could. and there is no end to a non secular international. each and every thing actual is mortal. i'm astonished at your assumptions. you do no longer even understand the ABCs of religion. you could ask the comparable questions approximately Christianity or the different faith that has faith is the Judegment Day, God, hell or heaven. You fail via targetting Islam.
2016-10-06 13:08:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judaism does not believe in Satan/Devil because we believe that nobody is responsible for our wrongdoings besides ourselves. We have only the "yetzer tov" (the good impulse) inside of us which makes us want to do good things and the "yetzer ra" (the bad impulse) which makes us want to do bad things.
2007-01-06 07:56:13 · answer #3 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All religions believe in the devil of some sort, and that's because there is vary little common sense, and logic used among them.
2007-01-06 07:52:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
lots of religions. but they dint refer to them as "Satan". the Greeks called him Pluto, or hades. so goes for the ancient Egyptians calling him Osiris. the devil we perceive today was just a ploy by the catholic church to scare people into worshiping Jesus.
2007-01-06 07:56:01 · answer #5 · answered by Alex F 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The fable of "satan" in christian, jew, and islamic mythology is a recent invention. It is nothing more than a perversion of Greek mythology of Hades.
The difference is, Hades was not evil, he was merely the collector of dead people's spirits. There were three areas of Hades (both the name of the "god" and the underworld): one was for good people (perverted into the christian myth of "heaven"), one for so-so people (perverted into "purgatory" by christian myth), and one for bad people (perverted into "hell").
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2007-01-06 07:58:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
All religions believe in some sort of devil or demon even though some may not want to admit it.
2007-01-06 07:52:40 · answer #7 · answered by ramall1to 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Any religion has some type of good/evil, reward/punishment, love/hate, type of balance to it. It's all a yin yang. Things must be equal so we don't get thrown off course.
2007-01-06 07:51:31 · answer #8 · answered by censored_4_tv 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because some religions want to scare the followers because they want to control them, or because some religions want someone to put the blame to.
2007-01-06 07:53:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well in my veiw there is no "devil" just a different ego if you will of "God"
and I do but I do not worship him
2007-01-06 07:51:09 · answer #10 · answered by Jackel1336 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋