If Satan and God are in some sort of struggle, wouldn't it be to God's advantage to lie to us about Hell?

Question

Perhaps Jesus was on some sort of Psy-Ops mission.

Answer 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

Answer 2

if God and Satan are in a stuggle of sorts...then my question is who created who? if God created Satan and somehow lost control then He is far from the perfect Entity we are led to believe.
Alternatively, if Satan and God were cretated at the same time, (Yin and Yang?) then we (Jews, Muslims, Christians etc) are not a monotheistic religions after all. In term s of lies: I guess we are all led to believe what "our" beloved priests want us to. Unfortunately that has been the case for millennia and certainly not the case of "recent" organised religions. Shamans used people's ignorance as much as medieval priests burning scientists at the stake for maintaining the earth is not at the center of the universe. Was Jesus on some sort of Psy-Ops mission? I bet he was an ordinary man, much like anyone you are likely to meet in the street, perhaps a bit more switch on; his creed and messages were manipulated by the few to their advantage; as a Zealot (Orthodox) Jew he did not want to create a new religion, his message was very much in line with his times.
Does this help???

Answer 3

No because G-D put Satan here to do a job in testing peoples worthiness. G-D created everything and said it was good. The struggle against light in Isaiah refers to an Assyrian god not the devil. In the hebrew text were satan is it says adversary.

So be thinkful for satan for by resisting his works you can prove you are worthy to enter intoo his presence.

Answer 4

It is impossible for there to be a struggle. God is all powerful, this means that he could make Satan vanish forever in the blink of an eye.

The fact that Satan still exists means that God wants that to happen. Therefore all the evil, pain, suffering, and temptation provided by Satan is exactly what God wants to happen.

Answer 5

Are you a Gnostic, or what?

That was one basic Gnostic idea: the God of the Old Testament was actually Satan, and Jesus was a rescue mission from the *real* God to free us from the matter-imprisonment in which Satan trapped us.

Answer 6

I can only say read the word of God: Please read this passage of scpirture.

Number 23:19 says, "God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?" This seems to be in stark contrast to the idea of an incarnation wherein God became a man (John 1:1, 14). If it could be said that God was not a man, or the son of man, how do we understand the idea of Jesus being the incarnate God, and His use of the title "Son of Man?"

God bless for you I am praying.

Answer 7

It would not be in God's interest to lie because for to many people it is the fear of punishment that keep people from doing wrong.This life is a test because adam and eve rejected gods will by eating the forbidden fruit which lost to all of us eden.Now in our lifes we have to except gods will knowing both good and evil and still choosing good.Free will!

Answer 8

Would you lie to your children, or your brothers and sisters?
I don't get why you would think its to some advantage for Christ to lie about anything, but I can tell you this;
First, the manuscripts do not describe hell as being some place where we all are in heaven, and in front of us is a burning pit where old bad uncle Henry is on fire and screaming and frying like bacon for the eternity. i don't know about you, but that would not be my idea of a good time. Well, its not written. Hell will only come at the very end of the millinium, which is a thousand years after Christ comes back. It will be a blotting out of existance.
Ezekiel explains it as being turned to ashes from within - the only "forever" involved in hell, is an idiom written as "the smoke of which will rise forever and ever" meaning finished, gone.
Yep, theres a big struggle between Christ and Satan. Before Adam and Eve came on the scene, there was a great war. Satan was created to guard the very throne that was reserved for the Christ, but satan wanted to be that begotten son of God, instead of Christ, so the war began. As a result, both the Heaven and the earth was destroyed. Satan was judged then, and condemned to death, but not until after God uses him in this earth age.
In order for you to make a choice, you need comparitors.
This earth age is as a result of that war, so that every soul would come thru this age one time, born to flesh, to make the choice of who to follow. And the war continues....thats why you find satan showing up in the garden of eden - he was trying to pollute the lineage - or bloodline, that through Eve, womb to womb, eventually would come that Christ child. He impregnated Eve, and God multiplied her conception; multiplied by two - she had twins; Cain and Abel. Abel was adams son; but Cain was satans son; one pregancy, 2 sacks, two different fathers. This was satans first attempt in the flesh to interrupt that pure line that Christ would come through. His next attempt was at the time of Noah. Angels at satans order, left their habitation, and came to earth to impregnate human women (see Jude) -
What they really wanted was Noahs daughters - Noah was a preacher against them. They did marry women, and had children, which were called "geba" which means giants.
The flood of Noah was God getting rid of those hybrids. I don't believe the flood was worldwide, but just in the areas where these geba were at. Noah was chosen to build the ark because as i said, he preached against these hybrids, and would not allow his daughters to participate. Don't forget - it was, again, through Noahs pure unpolluted line that would eventually come that Christ child, and there ya go - satans second attempt to interrupt it. And the war is on............

Answer 9

God did not lie to us about hell Satan did.

Would it not be more advantageous to Satan if we believe that a god who preaches forgiveness would send us to this awful place?

Answer 10

Hmm, that's contradictory. Satan means 'the adversary', and often in the Bible God is refered to as the adversary himself! (take, for example, the battle in 1 Kings). So, when God acts as the adversary, how can he be fighting himself? What, a contradiction in the Bible?!