why is the devil described as the shinning one but depicted as half ram/ half humanoid?

Question

why is the ram considered to look evil is it not one of Gods beautiful creations

Answer 1

Because making him half platypus would make him look funny.

Answer 2

The devil, or Satan, or Lucifer, was at one point the most beautiful angel in heaven. So beautiful that he became vain and wanted the other angels to serve and worship him instead of Jehovah God. The name Lucifer could be translated into as what you said "the shining one". Isaiah 14:12 "O how you have fallen from heaven, you shining one, son of the dawn. How you have been cut down to the earth, you who were disabling the nations."
The depiction of Satan as a half ram, half humanoid was an invention of false religion who preyed on people's fears and superstitious beliefs. They painted him on top of religious edifices as gargoyles with a goat's lower half and a human upper half with horns and a sinister countenance to emphasize maybe the fact that the inside of the church is the only safe place for people to seek refuge, but in order to do so, they have to ante up a lot to buy their way in. The original source of the half ram/half human depiction of Satan with horns, pointed tail and pitchfork dates back to the medieval times where artists were heavily influenced by representations of the mythological Greek god Pan and by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri who wrote the book Dante's "Inferno". Everything Jehovah God created is beautiful, yes, even the ram. The truth is, it is man that turns everything beautiful in this world into something ugly.

Answer 3

I think the half ram/half human thing was cooked up by a bunch of ancient priests long long ago as their best idea for a suitable image representing "evil incarnate". Who knows, perhaps one of them was blazing mad after being butted in the backside by a ram, and decided this would be a way to inflict permanent punishment on that hapless creature.
I thoroughly agree with you though, the ram is a magnificent animal and I can think of nothing more unseemly than to link it to the one living creature on this planet who stands out above and beyond all others for its ability to conceive and perpetrate the most horrendous evil - Man.
To give those ancient priests their due, I guess we would have to say they got it HALF right LOL.

Answer 4

The Greek god Pan is also depicted in that fashion. I would suppose someone appropriated his image to refer to the devil. This isn't as inappropriate as you might think, because the god Pan is a false god, and therefore opposed to the true God. This puts him on the same side as the devil, so the appropriation makes sense on some level.
I think it isn't so much that the ram looks evil, as that Pan is evil, and the ram is his symbol. (It was made his symbol by his worshippers, who obviously didn't think he was evil.)
IIRC, in the Bible, the ram is not such a negative symbol. It is a clean animal, suitable for sacrifice.

Answer 5

He's not. The expression “shining one,” or “Lucifer,” is found in what Isaiah prophetically commanded the Israelites to pronounce as a “proverbial saying against the king of Babylon.” Thus, it is part of a saying primarily directed at the Babylonian dynasty. That the description “shining one” is given to a man and not to a spirit creature is further seen by the statement: “Down to Sheol you will be brought.” Sheol is the common grave of mankind—not a place occupied by Satan the Devil. Moreover, those seeing Lucifer brought into this condition ask: “Is this the man that was agitating the earth?” Clearly, “Lucifer” refers to a human, not to a spirit creature.—Isaiah 14:4, 15, 16.

Answer 6

Mankind over the years has added so much junk to everything- you really have to read the Bible to sort out what the truth really is.
Here's an example: Mary Magdalene was said to be a prostitute. I can't find that anywhere in the Bible. Magdalene was not her last name anyway... tradition has it that she was from the town of Magdala, so har "name" was Mary the Magdalene. But, there are alot of things we won't know for sure until we all get up there in front of God.

Answer 7

Good question, religious people don't like asking themselves questions like this.

Its like any thread in christianity - you tug on it and the whole thing unravels and looks like the absurd construction it is. How does it fool so many people?

Answer 8

he is depicted as a demon, which is not an animal. which animal u know of is comepletely red, and can talk, and has a spade shape at the end of his tail?