He took one for the team!
He chose to be hated so people may grow to hate all that is bad and infact became the very symbol of it so people may know the difference and love the good! How else can you explain good and bad when everything was created by god? He's shown as the fallen angel only to prove everything was created by god, otherwise christianity and islam would be dualists not monotheists! Infact he is the only true follower so people develop a conscience!
2007-05-31 06:05:22 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think you make a good point. You should read "Letters from the Earth" by Mark Twain and Milton's "Paradise Lost". They give the other side of the Satan story.
2007-05-31 06:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by Graciela, RIRS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did not need Satan to create "bad" for him. God created man to live without conscience. He did not want man to have to deal with right and wrong. Satan tempted man into eating the fruit that gave man conscience. Right and worng were immediately recognized by man thereafter. Then God cursed man for his indiscretion. I would agree that Satan is a great follower of God in the sense that he knows everything about God, and knows everything in his word (Bible). And I guess you could claim that by creating evil, you accentuate how good the "good" is to people. On the other hand, if this was true, then either humans are illogical beings, or Satan is too good at his job, because most people prefer the bad.
2007-05-31 13:19:55 · answer #2 · answered by tiny_tim_326 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His existence is only to be the opposite of what is good. He is the measurement for the judgement on human who have spent his life on earth. Man is created to follow an order of God which is good. But good cannot be made known unless what is not good is there to compare with. That is where Satan's influence is necessary.
Satan has greatly live to the expectations he is there for. He is not a fallen angel, he is there from the beginning with that purpose. That fallen angel myth was created to hide the man who have fallen short of God's expectation from him.
2007-05-31 13:18:46 · answer #3 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever looked up the word "darkness" in the dictionary? The definition is "absence of light." And guess what "evil" means. You got it..."absence of good." God did not create evil. He is perfect. Evil exists because we choose to turn from God. The only way there would be no evil is if God created us so that we couldn't possible stray from Him. But then we'd be robots.
God does not need Satan nor our theories to justify why there is evil in this world. There is evil in this world because we think we know better than the God who created us and we live our lives apart from Him.
2007-05-31 13:16:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did in fact create Satan and the multitude of his following angles. Why? That we may have choices in this life. We are to become the lover (bride of Christ) and to truly choose a lover there must be other choices out there. Satan has filled the earth with many religions and athiestic views and we are to sift through all of these (just as a man and woman sift through the many choices) to find the one we will marry and commit our life to.
A free will to believe in his promises to meet us by the narrow gate and keep us in his secret place.
Choose wisely and you will know Jesus will never let one of his promises to fail. God bless.
2007-05-31 14:14:13 · answer #5 · answered by Bobby B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have no sense of direction! The way one talks tells the story. There goes the fool! If you continue to lose your temper against the Christians. We are not going to panic!!!
A CALM DISPOSITION QUIETS INTEMPERATE RAGE!!!!
Here is a piece of bad business I have seen in the earth....An error that can be blamed on whoever is in charge....
Immaturity is given a place of prominence,While maturity is made to take the back seat. I have seen unproved upstarts riding in style. While experienced veterans are put out to pasture.... Caution: the trap you set may catch you.
2007-05-31 13:24:47 · answer #6 · answered by God is love. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Iblis(devil), in Islam, one of the original angels who fell from grace. According to the sacred scripture of Islam, the Qur'an (Koran), when Allah (God) created Adam from clay he breathed his spirit into Adam, and all of the angels fell down before the first man in adoration. Iblis refused to fall before Adam because his pride was too great. Iblis was banished from heaven and became Allah's adversary, the tempter and deceiver of humankind.
2007-05-31 13:18:58 · answer #7 · answered by *-* East Beauty *-* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is Lucifer who had made a great sacrifice so that man may be a free thinking individual and as well as living out our lives with our own freewill. We all have a divine spark of Lucifer deep within us and this principle will lead us to the gates of initiation
2007-05-31 13:12:30 · answer #8 · answered by mikehughes06@yahoo.ca 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
And when the matter is decided, Satan will say, 'God promised you a promise of truth, But I promised you and failed you. I had no power over you, except that I called you and you obeyed me. So blame me not, but blame your ownselves. I cannot succour you nor can you succour me. I have already disclaimed your associating me with God. For the wrongdoers there shall, surely, be a grievous punishment
2007-05-31 13:10:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ah, yes. A case for the Devil. We have heard only one side of it. God has written all the books.
2007-05-31 13:08:41 · answer #10 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋