Do You Often Wonder If Satan Throws Up His Hands And Says, "It WASN'T ME!!! I SWEAR!!!"?

Question

Satan is more of a Judeo-Christian concept, which I don't subsribe to. But many believe in this Evil Fall Guy Ex-Angel Creature and blame him for their own poor judgement or the reason why someone won't see things THEIR way (Which they believe to be God's way).

Now If I screw up and make a mistake or use bad judgement I don't have a evil Fall Guy to share the blame. I blame MYSELF 100% and take responsibility for it. It was MY slip-up, MY ignorance etc.

But if certain people can just say, 'I was tempted by Satan!" or that Satan is somehow putting all kinds of situations their way to make doing the ethical, right thing, impossible, is it that they are shifting responsibility?

And why can't someone just not agree with you because YOU simply have not convinced them or what you are saying does not make sense to them. Why once again is the Fall Guy Satan to blame?
Is it because you cannot believe we humans are indeed capable of discerning things ourselves?

Please explain

Answer 1

By this point, he probably has a complex and needs a therapist. ;)

Answer 2

I suppose humans do like to have something that they hold as true to be pulled from underneath them. A certain degree of pride exists in all people, so when someone ultimately proves them wrong, they become embarrassed.

Using Satan as a fall guy is simply coping out of the situation. It allows their vanity to stay intact while admitting defeat.

The truth be known is that Satan while taking on such a despicable image in the churches, was simply allowing what God commanded not to do. Satan in his purest form, was a ally of mankind looking to free humans of Gods presence.

While I am not a proponent of Satan, I am able to see that he was fighting for the free will that God originally provided. He was opposed to the contradiction.

Answer 3

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 4

Yes, my dear. The problem with most people (who believe in such things) is that when they commit a sin (defined as anything that defiles God's "things"), they blame it on the devil. Christianity, in fact, proves that sin or temptation does not spring from the doings of Satan alone but by our own stupid (and innate) desires, too. In the first place, we humans are sinful in nature, Satan does not need to be blamed for that because when Adam and Eve fell from sin, they were originally clean and perfect. Our sinful nature springs from the curse that was bestowed upon the couple and since then everything that comes from men became contaminated with it. and also, Satan is not all-present and all-knowing. He cannot read your mind but he can read your outward reactions and responses only. So even if you are committing sin in your mind, he wouldn't even know it everytime. How shocked would he be if you would point your fingers on him and accuse him of tempting you to sin.

Answer 5

People often cannot admit to mistakes, it's so much easier to blame anyone else, real, myth, imagined. As for satan being tired of getting all the blame, I'm sure he is more than happy to get credit for bad things, no matter who is responsible.

Answer 6

Very true, BUT there are times when we mess up on our own. And there are times when satan does his best to help us mess up. satan does swear it wasn't him. But then he has been a liar and a thief since the foundation of the world. Satan is very real. He is NOT innocent of trying to ruin your soul. Yes we all are captains of our own ship. And there will be nobody to blame if it runs aground but ourselves. But there is a tugboat that is always willing to get us off the rocks if we aren't to vain to ask.

Answer 7

YES! I think both satan and God get blamed for a lot of things they didn't do. In the Judeo Christian perspective it started back in the Garden of Eden. There was this fruit or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God told Adam not to eat it. He ate it anyway. (see Genesis 3) God talked to him about it and Adam tried to throw the blame off on his wife and on God "And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.". God talked to her and she blamed it on the serpent. Now it was true that the serpent did suggest that she eat it but hey as my grandmother used to say if someone wanted you to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge would you do it just because they said it? Adam and Eve each made a choice. We each have choices to make.There can be satanic influences and God can be an influence but we each need to decide which influence we choose to follow.

You are right people need to take responsibility for their own actions. In the Christian perspective without that there can be no salvation because if we don't acknowledge we have sinned then we obviously can not have a Savior bearing the penalties of our sin for us.

Answer 8

the real satanists believe in themselves and satan is their icon...it's hedonism and self involvement and materialism. Not very threatening. Horned God was as great as and had some of the same qualities as another Shepherd God one could bring up. As to the blaming of influences beyond one's control, if personified, I'd say he has his head in his hands and verging on a migraine at people's schizophrenic projectionism when it comes to religion and personal responsibility.

Answer 9

Read "The Origin of Satan" by Elaine Pagels - excellent book. "Satan" is, historically, a means of elevating one's own petty beef with one's neighbor to the level of a cosmic conflict between abstract "Good" and "Evil."

It's not enough for some "Christians" to argue their case from "first principles," as it were. They have to (literally!) demonize their opponents by claiming that they're inspired by Satan. God, meanwhile, is always conveniently in their corner.

Answer 10

I think that god (if he exists) would rather have us take responsibility for our actions than blame a fallen angel. After all, if you have free will (as is maintained by the Christians), you made the choice to follow Satan's advise.

Answer 11

Do You Often Wonder If Satan Throws Up His Hands And Says, "It WASN'T ME!!! I SWEAR!!!"?

Yes every day of his life that is why the christians think their god is without fault.