WHats your opinion on satan's quote?

Question

Better to rain three days in hell then to serve God in heaven.

Answer 1

I think you mean "reign", but "rain" in hell is a funny though! :p

And, me and my BF would agree with you. Brightest blessings.

Answer 2

Actually the quote is not officially from Satan ... its from John Milton's book "Paradise Lost". And there's nothing mentioned about 3 days, the quote is simply, "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."

The character of Satan said this after he had been expelled from Heaven, giving his fellow fallen angels kind of a "pep talk", to get them all riled up to do damage on earth. I think that the generalization of the quote is relevant, considering that we must sometimes get past hard situations in life by convincing ourselves that things aren't so bad.

Answer 3

I don't think that's actually a quote from Satan, but the fact of the matter is Satan doesn't get to reign AT ALL in Hell.

Answer 4

That's not *quite* the quote...as to the proper quote, I rather agree with it.

If Milton was right, I'll get on fine with Satan.

ETA: For everyone else, the quote is "Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven", from John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

It's "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven"

It's from Milton's "Paradise Lost", in which Milton made a rather attractive literary figure of Satan.

Answer 7

were you with him when he said it? or, are you trusting the works of 2,000 year old fiction that claim to be able to know his words?

I do not believe Satan exists so the question is pointless to me.

But seriously, if heaven and hell really existed and I had to chose between a life of endless worship, or a life of ruling over millions, I would take ruling over millions in a second. First thing I would do......turn the heat down. If I was truly the ruler I could then turn hell into anything I wanted....for example paradise

Answer 8

He deceived himself when he thought he could put his throne higher than God's. He will be suffering the worst in the end. Only now does he have a reign, until Judgement Day. Then he will be sorry.

Answer 9

Rain? Or Reign? There's a big difference and it changes the meaning entirely.

Answer 10

You mean reign as in rule, right? Maybe god uses slave labour. And if you are the KING in hell you don't have a problem