Apparently sickness,crime and accidental death is due to our own sins and ignorance. Also, natural disasters are either from God(to test or punish us), or just a case of sh!t happens.
So what is it that makes Satan so EVIL?
What is He needed for?
2007-01-09 16:35:29 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
umm.. so many different answers. Please state your religion.
2007-01-09 17:08:13 · 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 03:38:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Isaiah 33:1 says that:
"The destroyer has come to destroy and when he ceases to destroy he will be destroyed."
Jesus said in John 10:10 that;
"Satan has come to steal, kill & destroy.."
I believe His main goal is to decive us, that we question the existance of God.
He doesn't care much what we believe, evolution, other religions, even satan worship as long as we don't believe in God.
People who don't believe in God still have an opinion in where we come from, right?
Some of them must believe the theroy of evolution, without question, just because they were taught it in school, and mainly because it helps their support of no God, that we evolved.
If you see a painting, isn't the evidence of the painting enough to suffice that there was a painter?
When we look at a building isn't the building itself proof there were designers and builders?
When you look at this world, our solar system, the human orgainism, the complexity of the eye and how it receives light and relays that information to the brain. Isn't this evidence of something?
You know there has never been 1 experiment done through modern science that has added information to anything?
How could our ancestors be some slime on a rock some 500 billion years ago, when there has never been any proof of something adding information. Only mutations taking away, not adding to.
Satan has come to deceive the world.
Don't you hate the thought of someone manipulating you into believing something that is not true?
How do you know if you're deceived if you're already deceived?
Seek the truth with your whole heart not just laugh if off..
I had an atheistic view at one time in my life..
Don't allow pride to keep you in the dark.
2007-01-10 12:07:54 · answer #2 · answered by chris4him 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Satan knows what his end will be; the lake of fire for all eternity. Natural disasters are small time compared to his true purpose for every single person who lives. Think eternal destruction; that is his goal. How does he do that? By doing anything he can to lead everyone away from the cross of Jesus Christ.
2007-01-10 01:09:12 · answer #3 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sh!t don't just happen it happens for a reason. The reason Satan is needed is to test and try us. Satan was put on Earth becaus he tried to rise up against God and overthrow him so God cast him to Earth. You can't have good without evil. Satan is going to try to overthrow God again but Satan already knows he can't win so what do losers normaly do they try to take as many down with them as they go that is what he is doing he is taking down as many as he can
2007-01-10 00:49:48 · answer #4 · answered by trapper 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HE IS NOT NEEDED AND WILL BE PUT AWAY INTO THE PIT...HE WAS orignally an angel who rebelled and became wicked....Noone has hired him...He is useless and is seeking the world for whom he may devour roving everywhere spreading wickedness!! but his time grows shorter each day count on that!!
2007-01-10 00:40:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians: What is Satan's job?
To Confuse and take our Eyes and Hearts away from THE GOD/Jesus.
2007-01-10 00:39:35 · answer #6 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Satan is here to keep you from getting eternal life and living forever.
2007-01-10 00:45:25 · answer #7 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan is the one you blame for all your problems.
Satan is to religion as Ted Kennedy is to talk radio.
2007-01-10 00:39:36 · answer #8 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sorry Man, there is no Satan, that was a nasty lie that Man made up to control other men.
2007-01-10 00:39:17 · answer #9 · answered by mountain woman 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
in Islam IBLIS
in Christian Lucifer both r same n performing the same job
n thats the obstracting the path of truthness towards god
2007-01-10 01:17:31 · answer #10 · answered by Leo H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋