2007-02-03 14:28:52 · 12 answers · asked by weird thinker 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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
2007-02-06 09:27:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way I thought I was the only one who thought liked that...And what if God is tricking everyone into thinking he was the good guy..while Satan is the real good guy and God is sorta the trickster ..Face it in the bible God was responsible for more deaths then Satan..he killed thousands well Satan killed what 10..?
And Satan is sitting back laughing at all the dumb people praying to a God that conned them...makes you think.
I was thinking of writing a book like that one day...Glad to see someone else that thinks like me man !!!!!
2007-02-03 22:36:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the Cainites believed the god from the Old Testaments was an evil god.
2007-02-03 22:31:52 · answer #3 · answered by Xo 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Satan already attempted to be God, and God cast him out of heaven and promises to cast him into the eternal lake of fire.
Problem is, a lot of people also think they are their own gods.
2007-02-03 22:32:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
"There are many here among us,
who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I we've been through that,
and such is not our fate.
So let us stop talking falsely now,
the hour is getting late."
Bob Dylan, from "All Along the Watchtower"
2007-02-03 22:43:09 · answer #5 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If god is the end all and be all
The alpha and the omega
is everything, and everything is god,
then the two are one and the same.
I wonder if God hates his bad side?
Like a jekyll and Hyde type thing?
2007-02-03 22:31:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
All that would do is switch the names. Good is still good and evil is still evil. A rose is a rose is a rose and all that.
2007-02-03 22:32:48 · answer #7 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is just the reverse. Problems will be the same.
2007-02-03 22:37:21 · answer #8 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What if I were you and you were me? What if up was down and down was up. What if vanilla was chocolate and chocolate was vanilla? WHat is the point?
2007-02-03 22:41:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was a central idea of Gnosticism... more or less.
2007-02-03 22:40:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋