Is Jehovah really Satan?

Question

The Old Testament calls Jehovah a man of war. Is it any coincidence then that it is the three spawns of Jehovah that are warring in the Middle East right now? Who is Jehovah really?

An ancient sect of Christians called Gnostics believed that Jehovah was indeed Satan.

Answer 1

What does the bible say?

Answer 2

"God," "Lord," and "Creator"—like "President," "King," and "General"—are titles and may be applied to several different personages. But "Jehovah" is a personal name and refers to the almighty God and Creator of the universe. This is shown at Psalm 83:18, according to the King James version of the Bible: "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth."
The name Jehovah (or Yahweh, as the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible and some scholars prefer) appears almost 7,000 times in the original Hebrew Scriptures. Most Bibles do not show it as such but substitute "God" or "Lord" for it. However, even in these Bibles, a person can usually tell where the original Hebrew text uses Jehovah because in those places the substituted words are written in large and small capitals, thus: GOD, LORD. Several modern translations do use either the name Jehovah or the name Yahweh. Hence, the New World Translation reads at Isaiah 42:8, "I am Jehovah. That is my name."

Answer 3

Certain "Gnostic" sects referred to the IHVH of the Old Testament as the "Demiurge" or "half creator," i.e. of material creation, which was seen by these sects as inherently evil and antagonistic towards spirit, and therefore could not have been created by the True God. They applied this idea to the biblical texts with some interesting results. Some went so far into the transvaluation of "orthodox" Christianity as to identify the serpent in Eden with the Christ, the Redeemer who opened man's eyes to the truth and made him like a god - an act of holy rebellion against the Demiurge who had tried to keep man ignorant and subserviant.

Really, it's just another way of interpreting mythology according to the degree of one's own "spiritual knowledge" (gnosis). Contrast the sexually neurotic morbidity of Augustine's (and thence most of Western Christian civilization's) interpretation of The Fall.

Answer 4

Jehovah's Witnesses could ask the same question about your religion. Why base a lot of your facts on a book that was written over the course of 2,000 years ago, and holds no conclusive proof of anything, other than what you have been taught in life to be true? The bible is nothing but the works of several people with an active imagination to me, and added to it, like any author today would add their contibuting stories to a well read novel series.

Answering your question though, I do not believe they are, to make it short.

Answer 5

Jehovah is the benevolent Almighty Father of angels and humans. When an angel or human alienates himself from Jehovah, truly 'the defect is his own' rather than God's.

(James 1:13) For with evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone.

(Deuteronomy 32:5) They have acted ruinously on their own part; They are not his children, the defect is their own


Here are a few Scriptural thoughts to consider:

(Psalm 14:1) The senseless one has said in his heart: “There is no Jehovah

(Romans 16:17) Keep your eye on those who cause divisions and occasions for stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and avoid them.

(2 Corinthians 4:4-6) The god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers

(Philippians 2:14-15) In among a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you are shining as illuminators in the world

(1 Timothy 6:3-5) If any man teaches other doctrine and does not assent to healthful words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, nor to the teaching that accords with godly devotion, he is puffed up with pride, not understanding anything, but being mentally diseased over questionings and debates about words. From these things spring envy, strife, abusive speeches, wicked suspicions, violent disputes about trifles on the part of men corrupted in mind and despoiled of the truth

Answer 6

According to biblical scholars Jehovah (also known as Yahweh) was an ancient Caananite war god serving in the "Council of Gods" along with other gods such as El (the high god, "Elohim means high god") and Astarte (godess of love and beauty). Yahweh Sabaoth is "God of the Armies". In "Psalms", he revolts against the Council, dismisses them all and appoints himself the one and only god.

There is no such thing as Satan. According to biblical scholars, among the many documents available to research there is never any mention of a Satan until the year 487 BC at which time the Israelites were taken into captivity by the Babylonians. When the Israelite priests were unable to come up with an explanation why God broke the Covenant they blamed it on a figure they had learned from the Babylonians- the "Jinni"
When a person committed a sin the Jinni were sort of like the prosecutor and angels your defense attorney at a trial before God. Anything bad that happened to you would make you wonder if "payback" was a result of Jinni bring you to trial and punishing you. The Israelites modified the character of Jinni somewhat and over the centuries has come to be known as Satan.
In my own humble opinion there is only one power in this world and that is God's love,which conquers all. To believe in any other power is, in itself, robbing power away from God and giving it to "Satan" . For every second, every moment we think about "Satan" is one second or minute we lose when we could have been thinking about God and God's love. To my mind "Satan" is a convenient scapegoat for people to blame for their sins, when the responsibility lies with their own greedy ego needs.
The real enemy of God and mankind is fear. Fear is the absence of God's love. Fear is ignoring the power of God's love, the mistrust and lack of faith in God's love, and is the root of all evil

Answer 7

The Gnostics believed a lot of things about Christ and God that weren't true then and they aren't true now.

You talk about the 3 spawns of Jehovah but you have it wrong.
They are the children,for lack of a better term, of Abraham - Israel, the Arabic nations, and the Gentiles.

Jehovah is the Creator, the Heavenly Father, and the merciful God who sent His Son to die for our sins so that we may have eternal Salvation. He is the one True God.

Answer 8

No Jehovah is the name of God in the old testament.

Answer 9

Well let's see what the bible itself has to say:

The Bible tells us in one place that Jehovah got angry with Israel and made David count the Israelites (2 Samuel 24:1). In another place it says that Satan made David number Israel (1 Chronicles 21:1). [I don't see the contradiction, sounds to me like they are one in the same.]

Answer 10

No.

Jehovah is Almighty God (Psalms 83:18)

Answer 11

What kind of kooky question is this? If you want your answer, just pick up a Bible and see for yourself! The very notion that Jehovah is Satan is ludicrous! That is like saying a man is a woman. You can't have 2 opposites exist as the same being. Duh!