If he had to rebel to become Satan, would God forgive him if he repented. What would become of humans, since our lives seem to revolve around this "who's with God" & "who's with Satan" chaos.
2007-05-13 15:57:06 · 20 answers · asked by NativeAtlantean 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.
Love and blessings
don
2007-05-20 04:21:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, the way i see it, Satan's influence is an essential (but unfortunate) aspect of our lives. Good and Evil compliment each other....there is a mutual relationship. Because without the existence of Satan and evil...there will be no struggle on earth......and actually, the relationship between humans and God would be pointless. God is love...and love comes by choice. The major choice we have is between Satan and God. So if there was no evil, there would really be no choice....because we would all just be mindless creatures following God and automatically doing good, and then we wouldn't truly love God because of the absence of choice. Therefore...i think it is very unlikely that Satan would even think about repenting, since his manifestation of evil is essential in upholding the balance of our choice, which is the very essence of our existence. And in any case.....why the hell would he want to repent? In today's world, he's actually making a lot of progress and capturing many, many souls. He certainly won't give up now.
2007-05-13 16:11:18 · answer #2 · answered by Spurious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes God would; But Satan will never repent he hates God. And even though there are people who hate God and love Satan; Satan hates the people who love him. How wrong.
How do I know: Because Satan wants to be equal with God but that will never happen. So he will never repent.
2007-05-20 11:17:39 · answer #3 · answered by Jenn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Redemption: He has no Blood -Rebel Arch-Enemy of God,Can"t touch God , So He attacks the very thing God loves most Mankind . Man has a Choice Heaven --Hell
by the Words He speaks; I study God"s Word and look at the Lives that are changed, When I said Yes to God,His Will,His Way, and I am Blessed to have A Personal walk with God.
Not Boring like the road Satan takes you down. and it is always down,Satan will have you eating with the Hogs,
2007-05-13 16:42:11 · answer #4 · answered by section hand 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is possible for Satan to repent and God would gladly forgive him but the problem with him is his pride. He wants to be greater than God and not accepting the fact that God is greater and more powerful than him.
2007-05-18 06:23:20 · answer #5 · answered by Ma_Mikaela 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is impossible because the Bible clearly declares that Satan will be cast into the Lake of Fire.
I believe the reason for this is because this would require some inward goodness in Satan, and since he is completely alienated from the life of God, there is no longer any goodness in him, therefore he could never find within himself any desire to ever even want to be reconciled to God and forgiven. When Christ came, the Bible makes it clear in the Second Chapter of Hebrews that He came to redeem the descendants of Adam, and not angels, which would include Lucifer, now Satan.
2007-05-13 16:05:26 · answer #6 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It is not possible for satan to repent, he was a perfect creature knowing fullwell what he was doing, he delibertly sinned against God, & slandered him in front of all the heavenly creation ......... (Hebrews 10:26) . . .For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, ......I use this illustration........if children throw rocks at cars, they can get into trouble, but if a responsible adult does the same, he's in a lot more trouble, because of his accountability ,........the same with perfect persons earthly or heavenly, they have no excuse its an act of rebellion against God
2007-05-13 16:06:06 · answer #7 · answered by zorrro857 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No.
Satan rebelled and God gave him what he wanted. A dominion of his own for a time.
Satan will eventually be swallowed up. Evil will go away and there will be nothing left but good.
2007-05-13 16:00:29 · answer #8 · answered by Bimpster 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. His fate has been sealed. he will perish in the lake of fire. This is his punishment for trying to usurp GOD's authority and ascend to His throne. Besides, he can't repent. He is in the angel class. Where man is in GOD's image and has been given the privilege to repent of sin.
2007-05-20 13:14:22 · answer #9 · answered by mae m. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God left you to drown in your own misery ever since, the first of our kind started to sin, god never wanted you.
God lost his strength and just disappeared from you, leaving the pure flags of existence to the hatrid from the rebels.
This does means that your *christian* ever loving god, isn't so good after all?
Rival to the demons, he must have need to repent himself of his sins. How does he turn away regret from his sins?
2007-05-15 07:02:43 · answer #10 · answered by Nightmare@666 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋