Now, where did he come from. Was he just automatically an Angel or was he from woman. I am not sure.
2007-09-12 02:45:40 · 17 answers · asked by make?love*not$war! 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was an angel created by God. Angels are not human. And humans do not become angels when they die. Angels were created to serve God. lucifer was one of God's most beautiful angels. he was in charge of music. But, he became prideful because of his beauty,and wanted to be exalted above God, and worshipped (he still does, by the way). So, God had Michael (the archangel) throw him out of Heaven. (obviously angels also have free will)
2007-09-12 02:57:05 · answer #1 · answered by byHisgrace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God created millions and millions af angels before the human creation. Among them was one who could forsee a planet full of humans worshipping their creator. He decided he wanted that worship for himself and so rebelled against God. That's where he got his name. Satan translates to Opposer/Devil to Slanderer.
That said, God can no more be said to have created the Devil than a mother to having given birth to a murderer. The child grows up to become what he chooses.
2007-09-12 02:57:46 · answer #2 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
According to the Scriptures, the devil was originally called Lucifer, and he was perfect in every way. He had music built right in to him (much the same way we can use our vocal chords to sing as part of our own biological construct).
He became proud one day, thinking that he could do a better job than God. He wanted to sit in God's throne, so he rebelled against God, along with 1/3 of the angels.
There was great war in the heavenlies, and Jesus even said "I saw satan fall like lightning from heaven."
Now, he is Lucifer, satan, the devil, and sometimes called the deceiver.
He attacks people (made in the very image of God), since he can not hurt God directly, he's trying to hurt God by hurting those He loves - people.
That's about it. I hope it helps to understand things a little better.
2007-09-12 02:54:32 · answer #3 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
He was an angel that got thrown out of heaven by God.
My comprehension was that he was causing a lot
of disharmony amongst the host and figured that he
could run things better than God. So he got the bum's
rush and the chance to run amok on the 3rd planet
from the sun. He's been giving us a taste of his
version of hell ever since.
2007-09-12 02:54:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I noticed that most people answered your question as to where the devil came from but I noticed nobody mentioned anything about how the devil (serpent) first appeared in the garden of eden and deceived Eve (so she ate from the tree of knowledge). For us humans was that not where it all began? Is that not when God told Adam and Eve they will positively die, meaning that they no longer will live forever.
2007-09-12 03:21:02 · answer #5 · answered by momtoboys 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He was an angel, and he wanted to be like the most high, he said that him self, and that is what got him kicked out of heaven. Isaiah 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Well now that didn't happen did it.
2007-09-12 02:51:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
God made him. He, at one time was the most beautiful angel in heaven, but then he rebelled against God. He wanted God to kneel down and worship him. That was not to be, so that is why he is so evil now. God "kicked" him out of heaven so that there would be no corruption in heaven. He wasn't from a woman at all.
2007-09-12 02:54:25 · answer #7 · answered by Karen K 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The term "devil" does not appear until the New Testament. However the term "satan" appears frequently in the Old Testament. Rarely does the term "satan" however, refer to the supreme ruler over evil in the Old Testament.
The story that Satan or the Devil is a fallen angel is simply folklore and really no solid biblical evidence. The conceptual idea that there is a supreme ruler over evil developed during the intertestmental period and was adopted by Jesus and the writers of the New Testament. Since Jesus adopted this, it appears that this conceptual understanding is in fact a reality that there is in fact a ruler over all evil. Even though this was not previously understood in the Old Testament.
2007-09-12 02:53:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Depends on who you mean by "the devil". There is absolutely no indication in the Bible that the devil, the serpent in the Garden of Eden, Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebul, the Beast or any of these other spooky characters are supposed to be one in the same. None. Christianity adopted that duality idea from Zoroastrianism.
There is also absolutely no indication in the Bible that he was an "angel". That story comes from Milton's "Paradise Lost". The one and only time "Lucifer" shows up in the Bible is in Isaiah 14:12, and that's only because St. Jerome chose the word "lucifer" ("light bringer") to replace the Hebrew word heyel ("morning star") when he first translated the Hebrew Scriptures into Latin. The morning star is Venus, and if you actually read the original translation in context, you'll see that it's about comparing a king's fall from power to the descent of Venus in the night sky. That's ALL "Lucifer" was.
2007-09-12 02:51:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋
He was an angel who never made it to being from a woman. Had he been from a woman his powers would be one million times worse during a week period of the month.
2007-09-12 02:49:19 · answer #10 · answered by shallytally 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋