Please give bible scriptures......is he roaming the earth, or in hell, or where is he ???
2007-03-23 11:15:55 · 16 answers · asked by JustPeachy !!! 5 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.
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don
2007-03-26 13:58:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Job 1, the bible said he roamed the earth back and forth. And he also has access to the spiritual realm.
2007-03-23 18:19:54 · answer #2 · answered by super saiyan 3 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In north London, right next to me.
There's next to nothing in the Bible on Satan. The traditional Christian mythology on Satan was developed long after the New Testament was finished. In fact, most of it didn't exist until John Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Almost everything Christians think they know about Satan is non-Biblical in basis.
2007-03-23 18:18:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our best evidence points to Satan being confined by Michael the Archangel for the first 1000 years of the church age.
The 11 o'clock news indicates that he is presently at large, and walking the earth.
2007-03-23 20:39:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My guess is the imagination.
Seeing as it is the same place where the bible scriptures came from.
2007-03-23 18:29:55 · answer #5 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, technically, he can't "physically" be anywhere because of his rebellion he doesn't have a body...
But, I think "spiritually" he can pretty much be anywhere. I don't know any scriptural references other than when he was cast out of heaven..
2007-03-23 18:22:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan has no "physical" presence now. that is, unless the anit-christ is roaming the earth.
2007-03-23 18:21:18 · answer #7 · answered by Underdog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question needs to be rephrased.
He does not have a physical appearance or fleshly form so
its anyones guess where he is.
2007-03-23 18:23:16 · answer #8 · answered by David K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he's alive and well, running amoke on planet earth...stated several places in the Bible.
2007-03-23 18:21:41 · answer #9 · answered by Debbie R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan exists only in the evil that people do not as any separate being.
2007-03-23 18:23:46 · answer #10 · answered by b_steeley 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋