was satan once an angel of god?

Answer 1

Yes, Lucifer was an Angel of God that fell from grace.

Answer 2

satan was an angel (that God had created) praised in heaven, he was the guardian cherub, someone correct me if I am wrong, I am a new christian, but satan wanted to be worshipped, so his pride made him sin and he was cast down to earth with the 1/3 of host of heaven. isaiah 14:12, Ezekiel 28:12-19. It just makes more sence that the savior of the world would not be related to the most evil person of the world. The christian version puts satan in his place, he is a created being and thus is less powerful and does not have the power that God has, in the Mormon version, he is a God and is high and mighty and when I was a Mormon, I was always told that satan was after me, and almost died three times because of this great fear, my dad even told me that at any time, I could be possessed by this demonic devil. In christianity, satan does not have that kind of power, because he is a created being and when jesu died on the cross, his power was taken away. Genesis 3:15.

Answer 3

Yes he was.
He is believed to be an angel who rebelled against God— and also the one who spoke through the serpent and seduced Eve into disobeying God's command. His ultimate goal is to lead people away from the love of God — to lead them to fallacies which God opposes. Satan is also identified as the accuser of Job, the tempter in the Gospels, the secret power of lawlessness in 2 Thessalonians 2:7, and the dragon in the Book of Revelation. Before his insurrection, Satan was the highest of all angels and the "brightest in the sky." His pride is considered a reason why he would not bow to God as all other angels did, but sought to rule heaven himself. In Christianity he is called "the ruler of the demons" (Matt. 12:24); "the ruler of the world" and even "the god of this world." (2Cor. 4:4). The Book of Revelation describes how Satan will be cast out of Heaven, down to the earth, having "great anger" and waging war against "those who obey God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus". Ultimately, Satan is thrown forever into the "lake of fire" (Revelation 20:10), not as ruler, but as one among many, being treated no different than all the others who have been cast there as well.

Answer 4

Satan was created as a holy angel. Isaiah 14:12 possibly gives Satan’s pre-fall name as Lucifer. Ezekiel 28:12-14 describes Satan as having been created a cherubim, and was apparently the highest created angel. He became arrogant in his beauty and status, and decided he wanted to sit on a throne above that of God (Isaiah 14:13-14; Ezekiel 28:15; 1 Timothy 3:6). Satan’s pride led to his fall. Notice the many “I will…” statements in Isaiah 14:12-15. Because of his sin, God threw Satan out of heaven.

Answer 5

Come! come, bee bee. Please show a little Holy Respect, if you don't mind, and begin my Name with a capital S. That goes for Angel and God, too.

Yes, I was once "an angel of god" and, like you, bee bee, I had wings. I was a fighter pilot in the GAF (God's Air Force). Unfortunately, I was caught fraternising with Evolutionists, was court-martialled and Air Chief Marshal God removed my wings and grounded me. Thereafter, I was just The Man in the Moon until some American mortals landed on my Moon and found that I didn't exist. However, I am still the fairy on your Christmas tree, complete with wings. (Keep off, Yanks, or where will I go? No good asking Richard Dawkins.)

Satan.

Answer 6

According to Bible, yes. There is a problem however. Angels were created by God as his servants, that is to say without "own will" or "freedom of choice". How did he turn then against God? There is a problem with all monotheist religions and that is the fact that all responsability is on the only God. And there is another problem. Life is good and death is bad. We now know better than that.

Answer 7

Lucifer led the greatest praise to God until he was cast down from Heaven b/c he thought he(who was created by God) was greater than God.

He became the darkness that ruled over the earth and decieved Adam and Eve to disobey God's command.

Satan is thus a spiritual being of evil who works in darkening the thoughts of man, blocking the truth of the Gospel, and ultimately leading all who are not saved from the problem of original sin, into the utmost corruption and death, eternal Hell.

I'm slightly taken aback by the number of people who know this and aren't able to keep it just as knowledge.

Answer 8

Yes, Satan was an angel of God. His name was Lucifer and he was the most beautiful angel and had the most wonderful voice. He started to get jealous of God and that is what caused him to get kicked out of heaven. That's where pride started.

Answer 9

According to Biblical and other teachings, Satan, a.k.a. Lucifer, Beelzebub and a choir of other names, was one of God's "homies" but got a little too big for his britches and God pensioned him off with a domain of his own and the freedom to recruit like minds disasatisfied with where the Jesus Corp. was going to diversify and make room for the less greedy as well as Jews and the Nazi's weren't going to stand for that nor were the non-kosher "cereal killers."
Satan was tossed, and joined by other fallen angels and organized the "Angels of Light Union," taken from the name Lucifer, meaning light. God may have created a little more than he expected when he said "Let there be Light," as that has spawned a whole industry of Zombies on Braodway and in Horror Movies. My 'sympathy for the devil" is limited to the fact that he didn't recieve state unemployment compensation and ends with he did get a major severance package and has been tempting recently fired humans to pray to his pus-filled appearance rather than sue and to get these recalcitrants, he created lawyers.
I accept Satan and his minions as anthropomorphisms or state of mind, although I am on standby alert for those trumpet calls and hope I've enough street smarts to avoid the Beast and depend on the "Good Guy" tro viruscheck for me and popug flag as global warming may mask some of the heat and sulphur. I haven't killed anyone yet, don't steal, covet my neighbor's wife, but I do call Republicans a couple of words I learned from rap songs and curse the rappers in turn for being rich bigots, but do avoid the gawdams and stick to genetic referrals such as George Bush's dad is positive for the K-9 gene and his sister inherited it. Jesus died for a lot worse than me and Gene Roddenberry is already up there to grant me the "Romulan Right of Statement," so I stand a better chance of going to Heaven than Hell and maybe one of my Mormon friends can help me out or my cats, dogs and horses will offer me a barn, stable or catbox when we negotiate on the Rainbow Bridge. I've a few years left to wear sackcloth and ashes, but I just don't see Jesus coming down to improve my current wardrobe and he's already taken my hand. What more would I want, as asking for more than salvation would be greed in action. Sorry, Satan, will see ya on FOX-TV before I change the channel to PBS, but I guess the bartender position on the Southside of Hell is still open to new applicants.

Answer 10

God said, " I am the I am". Satan was a beautiful angel who believed in God but wanted His power over all. Many think they are smarter today , unless they repent, they will suffer the same fate.
God put it in every ones heart to know that he exists. He gave us the choice to follow or go our own way. It looks to me like we have really messed up going our own way.

Answer 11

This puzzled me for a while.

As far as Islam goes the dominate opinion is that he was a Jinn (ghost-like/demon) who because of his piety was with the Angels. When he refused to bow down to Adam (upon him peace), he was expelled from Heaven, to earth.

There is another opinion that he was an angel but that doesn't make sense for me. As an angel has no other purpose but to obey God, it therefore cannot disobey God. He has to be from the Jinn to have this ability to disobey like Humans do.

So for me he is a jinn not an angel.