2007-01-09 16:10:04 · 21 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He entered without permission and God allowed the test of obedience.. Satan tempts our kids too and they have to learn resistance!
2007-01-09 16:14:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read in Ezekiel 28 about the King of Tyre. It talks about a covering cherub in the Garden of Eden. Satan was an angel before he became a demon and opposer against God and man.
2007-01-09 16:16:58 · answer #2 · answered by jaguarboy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Angel that became Satan(meaning resister)and Devil(meaning Slanderer) may have been the position of oversight over the garden of Eden.That could explain what he was doing there.
Because keep in mind that prior to his disobedience and rebellion,he too was a angelic son of God and one of his responsibilities may have been the Garden of Eden
2007-01-09 17:17:33 · answer #3 · answered by lillie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan was an angelic employee of God back in Genesis. The pagan converts that compiled the text of the Bible misinterpreted Satan's role as that of an equal and thus promoted Satan to Godhood instead of employee status, utterly screwing up the meaning and clarity of the Bible. Come to think of it, the imperial pagans that "helped" print the oral stories of the Jews were really happy to point out that they ought to be more insular and biggoted considering they kept spreading to other people, marrying outside the faith, and generally becoming a nuisance. Helping them to understand their inner bigotry really helped to get them to pacify themselves through the intercultural dissonance they then created for themselves. Yeah, having pagan imperial interests write your holy books is a real help!
2007-01-10 10:46:04 · answer #4 · answered by Cheshire Cat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 03:57:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't. The accuser went to the garden for the same reason God went to the garden. Because man was there. God would visit in the cool of the day because He loved his creation Adam. The tempter went there because he hated God wanted to pollute His creation and Adams relationship with God.
2007-01-09 16:17:04 · answer #6 · answered by tony200015 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't reserve anything for him. Adam was to keep the garden and take dominion over all the creators. It was Adams responsibility to kick Satan out of the garden and he failed
2007-01-09 16:18:15 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reasons I think God reserved a spot in the garden for Satan is to give Adam and Eve choices good or evil. There are reasons why he put Satan there one is cause you can't have good without evil.The Bible says in Gen. ch.4 that eve gave birth to two kids Cane and Able, but you follow Adams genealogy back only one of these 2 kids is in his genealogy which is Able. What do you think God was talking about when he told them not to for take of the fruit. The fruit that god was talking about is sex the Devil seduced eve into having sex with him. Which then she went and told Adam how good it was. Which I think sex is really good. So Adam and Eve had sex then they was ashamed and tried to hide themselves from God. It is possible for a woman to have twins but the twins have different fathers. The way this is possible is that the woman has two eggs in her that each man fertilizes. This is what happened with Eve. So Eve gave birth to Cane and Able. Able was Adams son and Cane was Satan's offspring so it carried on good and evil.
2007-01-09 16:37:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't know. Isn't that strange, why he is so kind to the Ultimate Prince of Evil? He kills the entire planet (the flood) except a few people, but he doesn't do away with Satan. Could it be that God and Satan are partners in crime? They certainly seemed that way in Job. Could it be that God is Satan?
No it couldn't. God and Satan don't exist.
2007-01-09 16:17:07 · answer #9 · answered by alnitaka 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That's a good one.
My Brother who is an Atheist (I am one too) says that it was a snake and everyone says it's the devil.
Just like the Anti-christ, and the beast are not the devil, either.
Unless satan has a trinty as well, in the Christian religion, lol.
2007-01-09 16:21:59 · answer #10 · answered by lilith 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋