Satan never had a chioice , he was designed to be the guardian of hell, how wicked was that of god?
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I asked a similar question a while back... specifically, how did Satan understand the difference between right and wrong if he never ate the fruit of knowledge?\n\nI think we are both in agreement that if there was a christian god... he definitely could not be considered benevolent.
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Who could possibly believe in a God who would condemn the unknowing to eternal damnation because they never had a chance to serve him?  That's not my definition of a God.  That's a dictator.  That's a madman.  Nope, the Christian God is a loving God who would take into account a person's background.  All those unknowings are safe for eternity.
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Who Is Behind All Evil?  \n\nIn this series: \nAre Evil Forces at Work? \nSatan—Myth or Sinister Reality? \n\nRelated topics: \nDoes the Devil Make Us Sick? \nHas Evil Won? \nWho Really Rules the World? \n   \n\nSatan—Myth or Sinister Reality?\nTHE origin of evil has intrigued thinkers from earliest times. A Dictionary of the Bible, by James Hastings, states: "At the dawn of human consciousness man found himself confronted by forces which he was unable to control, and which exercised a baleful or destructive influence." The same reference work also says: "Early mankind instinctively sought for causes, and interpreted the forces and other manifestations of nature as personal."\n\nAccording to historians, belief in demon gods and evil spirits can be traced back to the earliest history of Mesopotamia. The ancient Babylonians believed that the underworld, or "land of no return," was presided over by Nergal, a violent divinity known as "the one who burns." They also feared demons, whom they tried to appease by means of magic incantations. In Egyptian mythology, Set was the god of evil, "represented as having the features of a fantastic beast with a thin, curved snout, straight, square-cut ears and a stiff forked tail."— Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology.\n\nAlthough the Greeks and the Romans had benevolent and malevolent divinities, they had no predominant evil god. Their philosophers taught the existence of two opposing principles. For Empedocles, they were Love and Discord. For Plato, the world had two "Souls," one causing good and the other evil. As Georges Minois states in his book Le Diable (The Devil), "classical [Greco-Roman] pagan religion knew of no Devil."\n\nIn Iran, Zoroastrianism taught that the supreme divinity Ahura Mazda, or Ormazd, created Angra Mainyu, or Ahriman, who chose to do evil and thus became the Destructive Spirit, or Destroyer.\n\nIn Judaism, there was a simple presentation of Satan as God's Adversary who brought about sin. But after many centuries, that became tainted with pagan ideas. The Encyclopaedia Judaica states: "A great change had taken place . . . by the last centuries B.C.E. In this period the [Jewish] religion . . . took on many traits of a dualistic system in which God and the forces of good and truth were opposed in heaven and on earth by powerful forces of evil and deceit. This seems to have been under the influence of Persian religion." The Concise Jewish Encyclopedia declares: "Protection against d[emons] was afforded by observance of the commandments and by the use of amulets."\n\n The Babylonians believed in Nergal (far left), a violent divinity; Plato (left) believed in the existence of two opposing "Souls" \nApostate Christian TheologyEven as Judaism adopted non-Biblical concepts concerning Satan and the demons, apostate Christians elaborated on unscriptural ideas. The Anchor Bible Dictionary states: "One of the more extreme of ancient theological ideas is that God redeemed his people by paying Satan for their release." This idea was propounded by Irenaeus (second century C.E.). It was further developed by Origen (third century C.E.), who claimed that "the devil had acquired a legal claim on men" and who regarded "the death of Christ . . . as a ransom paid to the devil."— History of Dogma, by Adolf Harnack.\n\nTo quote The Catholic Encyclopedia, "for about a thousand years [the idea that the ransom was paid to the Devil] played a conspicuous part in the history of theology," and it remained a part of church belief. Other Church Fathers, including Augustine (fourth-fifth centuries C.E.), adopted the idea that the ransom was paid to Satan. Finally, by the 12th century C.E., Catholic theologians Anselm and Abelard came to the conclusion that Christ's sacrifice was offered not to Satan but to God.\n   \nIrenaeus, Origen, and Augustin
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One day in heaven this guy (of course a guy) was jelouse because God and Jesus had more power and gifts then him even though he was the "royal" messanger. So he tried to steal some power and God caught him... he then sent him down to hell and changed his name into SATAN... i think the guy was the person who got replaced by Gabrial... so this guy is still angry while he is surounded by flames and a whole lot of pissed off evil dead people... and that is the reason there is hate.
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It says in the bible he was filled with pride because of all his beauty.  He must of been a handsome angel before he was cast out of heaven.  So im sure he doesnt look like that in hell. God Bless!!
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I'm sorry, no.  You give satan way more credit than he deserves.  He has no power except what God allows him on a case by case basis.
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God created Satan too .. Goodness and wickedness should be exist so God tests us and knows who is the good and who is the bad one .
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no one, hell doesn't exist.  It is a figment of imagination which was created to keep people in line and force them do do what their 'masters' wanted.
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Satan is a fallen spiritual being whose condition is immaterial to tangible matter, e.g. catastrophic flood waters.  He is pretty much invincible until his time is up and Christ Jesus returns; and in the final battle Satan is vanquished, chained and imprisoned (supernaturally) for 1,000 years, during the Millennial Kingdom of Christ.\n\nPeople's notion that Satan is already in Hell is entirely inaccurate.  He is enthroned along with very powerful fallen seraphim in the Lower Heaven, which is also called the Outer Circle.  They occupy thrones meant for God’s Chosen, but they will be dethroned when the Great Heavenly Battle ensues.  This is when the Archangel Michael and the other Divine Angels will cast Satan out of heaven and onto the Earth at the end of this Earth Age.  People have utterly no idea of the magnitude of this event.  Think of all the evil that has ever besieged our Earth.  Well, it is child's play compared to the Great Malevolent Forces that are about to be unleashed upon the Earth for the very first time.
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No amount of me telling you what is and what not ain't gonna convince you,The fact that u r asking this question is because deep down you know u r wrong,The christian God as u put it, and satan r not equal and whomever came up with the idea you being taught against the bible with the bible is really cunning must be the devil himself,Let me tell you what my God give me that no demon in hell can give you peace.God treated lucifer unjust r u kidding me? God could have killed him he should have, but look around you all the wickedness thats happening the Devil is very well in charge.Do you know your lucifer talk to God see in Job when God said to him have u considered my son Job he said To God do u think job serve u for nothing meaning the omly reason y job serve God is because he was rich God said to him take all he has Job stayed true to God anyways your devil is gonna burn in hell along with anyone who serve him, you can prove God for yourself just talk to him.Say if u r really up there do something to let me know u r real
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not true, read the Bible especially Revelation. God made Hell and Dante
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one angel rebelled and he is now satan. he was just jealous. it happened for a reason.
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Well, you would too if you created the ENTIRE universe!  But seriously, God doesn't have an ego, Satan does, and that's why God threw him out of heaven.   No words can properly explain to the fullest who God is, the only way someone can know who God is, is to have a relationship with Him.  My father is an atheist and he wanted my mother who is catholic to raise us without a religion.  So, I grew up knowing in my heart as a child that there was a God, but not having a religion structure to explain to me.  Well, God gave me dreams as a teenager, which eventually led me to get saved when I was 18.  And by the way, God DID appear to people, as Jesus, and will return again in the future.  God doesn't have an ego, He wouldn't have died on the cross and suffered for our salvation.  God loves us and wants whats best for us.  Satan is jealous of God and people because he can't be god, and he can't get saved like humans.  God won't forgive him so he's jealous that God forgives us, and satan tries to lead us down a path of destruction to hell.
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Satan was cast down to the earth by God. God Then made man and gave him domenon over the earth and ever living creature.. because satan has now lost the control of the earth to man.  satan then tricks man into sin, seperating man and God. because of Gods Holyness & being True. \nPENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH, \nMan goes threw a period of spirital and physical death.  while satan reclaims the earth for himself.     \nthen God prepairs the greatest sacrafice.  Which was Jesus Christ and through repentece & acceptence man Is restored to his place with God.  Clean from sin.  and given a new purpous to go and tell anyone who will listen that he or she can be restored.  \n     Every man & every woman would like to know that the people that stand with them, by there side are there because they  choose to out of love.  Nobody wants a robot for a friend.  God doesnt Ether.  My purpous is to serve a God who loves me enough to give his own life in my place.   what is your purpous????????
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It is not written in the bible.\n\nSatan was an angel, Lucifer, who wanted to become better than God.\n\nHe was kicked out of heaven with all of his followers, aka the demons, and he is now known as Satan.\n\nHe wasnt one of Jesus' brothers.
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I'm not sure how I'm gonna answer this, but here goes.\nLet's see: God created Lucifer (now known as Satan) as His second in command. Lucifer then saw how much better than all the other angels he was and thought to himself, "If I'm so much better than them, why can't I be better than God himself?" No one knows where this thought came from, seeing how God only makes perfect creations. The only logical place that it could have came from is freedom of choice that God gave them when He created the Angels. This freedom also explains why 1/3 of the Angels chose to follow Lucifer in his rebellion against God. After Lucifer and his demons (fallen angels) were cast out of Heaven, God seperated His angels so far away from Lucifer's that the demons know that they can never get back. Lucifer is free to come and go as he pleases in God's throneroom (as evidenced in the first chapter of Job), but he can never return to what he once was. This fact has angered him so much over the millenia that he's esentially declared war on humanity, God's most prized creation. The first battle in this war was waged on the day of Adam and Eve's temptation and fall away from God when Satan successfully decieved them to eat of the tree that God explicitly said not to eat from. The victory was prophesied not even a day later when the Spirit of the Lord walked through the Garden looking for Adam and Eve to felowship with them as He normally did, only to find them hiding from them, dressed in fig leaves. God asked them why they were ashamed of themselves, and then they went through the whole "it's his/her fault" routine, blaming each other for what one did. When the truth finally did come out (not like God didn't already know), God pronounced consequences on humanity (a series of hardships which can be read in Genesis 3), and cursed the serpent (as this was the creature Satan used to decieve Adam and Eve). The curse on the serpent also held hope for the redemption of Mankind, as it fortold of the defeat of Satan through the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The war was over before it begun! \n\nSo, to answer your question: Yes, Satan invented the concept of sin. He then successfully marketed this concept to himself, his demons, and ultimately to humanity. He even tried to get Jesus to sin, but since Jesus is God in the flesh (and God is perfect), he couldn't do it. Jesus was the only man who ever lived here on earth that lead a perfect life, one completely without sinning.
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I think you are referring to hell as the stereotypal giant furnace, in which case I suppose it makes sense to say that God had more options.  \nHell is actually an absence of God, a lonely dispair from God's complete abandonment of one's soul.  Being that the person in hell totally rejected God during his or her lifetime, it makes sense that God leaves that person after death.  Remembering that God is love (1 Jn 4:8), I would assume that hell would be the absence of love, a complete feeling of hatred and being hated for eternity.      \nGoing back to the question, God did not have other options so I don't have examples.