My 7th day adventist friend said this is so. She made reference to Moses about God performing miracles through him and how Satan also performed the same miracles throught the magicians???
2007-07-26 23:48:31 · 14 answers · asked by Say It Like You Mean It 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes! There are two valid ways to look at this:
1) According to Christian mythology, Satan is an archangel with supernatural powers. He is the great deceiver who uses his powers to entrap human souls. As such, he can heal or provide Earthly rewards in return for the soul of a victim.
2) Satan has exactly the same power to heal as god, or any other fictional being; none.
2007-07-26 23:54:48 · answer #1 · answered by Aleph Null 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The only limits to Satan's power are the ones God puts on him.
See for examples: Job 1-2; Revelation 20; Matthew 4
2007-07-27 06:55:49 · answer #2 · answered by SDW 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Probably, but I would not accept a miracle from an evil source. We are all going to die at some point, so why prolong ones life through evil means, when at the end one will die anyway.
We don't have to speak of this subject in miraculous terms. If you were rich would you prolong your life by having someone murdered for there organs, hopefully not. The organs would serve the purpose of prolonging your life, but your life would have been prolonged through evil means.
2007-07-27 22:53:32 · answer #3 · answered by Bud#21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satans' original position was one of a celestial angelic creature but he rebelled against God.An angel has no power,theologically speaking,to create anything but can only act on the instructions of God himself.
The short answer to your question is no.As his role is generally agreed to be one of destruction and violence it does not logically follow that he has the ability to replicate the deeds of the almighty as some sort of competition.
There are those who claim satan can fool people by pretending to be divine in matters such as this but,really,you will tie yourself up in knots with this kind of thinking.Satan has no power of positivity whatsoever,God is the source of all light and life.
Anyone who claims these kind of things is,in my humble opinion,on very dodgy ground theologically.I think this sort of thing comes as a result of hystericalism among Christians who might just be getting a wee bit carried away.
2007-07-27 06:59:23 · answer #4 · answered by david d 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read the Holy Scriptures and you will find that the magicians and Satan us cheap tricks and imitate the miracles of God but they are not the same or equal to the works of God. Do not be deceived.
Deuteronomy 11:16
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
1 Corinthians 6:9
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1 Corinthians 6:8-10 (in Context) 1 Corinthians 6 (Whole Chapter)
1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Corinthians 15:32-34 (in Context) 1 Corinthians 15 (Whole Chapter)
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Galatians 6:6-8 (in Context) Galatians 6 (Whole Chapter)
1 Timothy 2:14
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
1 Timothy 2:13-15 (in Context) 1 Timothy 2 (Whole Chapter)
2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
2 Timothy 3:12-14 (in Context) 2 Timothy 3 (Whole Chapter)
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Titus 3:2-4 (in Context) Titus 3 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 18:23
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Revelation 18:22-24 (in Context) Revelation 18 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation 19:19-21 (in Context) Revelation 19 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 20:10
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Revelation 20:9-11 (in Context) Revelation 20 (Whole Chapter)
2007-07-27 06:59:50 · answer #5 · answered by deacon 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I wouldnt call it the "same" power as God, because Satan only has as much power as God has given him.
Yes, Satan can heal and perform miracles.
2007-07-27 06:51:58 · answer #6 · answered by ccc4jesus 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Satan is God and God is also Satan. It's a dual God - no difference.
So yes - if such an entity as God existed, of course Satan would be able to heal, as satan is God.
2007-07-27 06:53:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
no i don,t think that the devil as the same power.if Satan did he would destroy not heal.
2007-07-30 14:48:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
satan is a deceiver - he'll use any lie just to get you to betray God.
He'll show you sh it and say its candy and lots of you losers will believe him.
Hell he'll even say the world was triangle - unfortunately a lot of people do believe the world is triangle lol
2007-07-27 06:50:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
If the source of the sickness is from the devil, than the devil can heal that.
2007-07-27 06:57:02 · answer #10 · answered by faceeternity 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋