Who has ended more Lives, "God" or "Satan"?

Question

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Answer 1

Man

or

disease

or

nature

or stupidity

Answer 2

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 3

Satan has ended all of the lives that have been ended. Without his influence, Adam and Eve would have remained in a state of perfection and never died. They also would not have passed sinful tendancies on to their children so none of them would have died. The earth would have remained a paradise as God intended it to be, full of happy, healthy people who never even got old.

Answer 4

The bible gives the instances where God took action or ordered judicial punishment. There's no numbers on those events or a way to calculate them, but since Satan caused the first sin, all of mankind's needless deaths can be attributed to him.

Answer 5

Satan of course. no lives wold have ended if satan were not constantly at work convincing people that God is wrong or fake.

Answer 6

Neither has ended a single life directly, as they are both only concepts, not things of substance or power. As concepts, however, the numbers of deaths perpetrated by people doing the 'will of satan' pales mightily beside the numbers of deaths perpetrated by people doing the 'will of god'

Answer 7

I must say God is responsible for more of the deaths. In the Universal Flood he ended with millions of people (if we are to believe the Bible), and he also destroyed Sodoma and Gomorrah because the people were having wild sex.

Answer 8

God, of course. God kills everyone eventually, including me and you (hate to burst your bubble, but you are not immortal).

Since God manulipulates Satan to ultimately perform his will (read Job sometime), then I think that you are giving Satan too much credit.

Answer 9

Since God is LOVE and only wants for us to be with Him in glory, and satan is the Adversary and wants only to destroy, I am going to go with satan for the answer to this one. YBIC

Answer 10

George Bush

Answer 11

God created Satan, correct? So who's responsible?