do christians really believe this about Satan? and what muslims think about this?
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first of all islam states that:\ngod is the only power that decides who lives, who dies, who gets sick, who gets rich or poor, god decides everything and everything happens within and under his authorization and full control.\nsecondly,\nsatan, the devil, lucifer, nosfirato, shaytaan, or whatever he is called, here is his story in islam based on the holy words of god in quraan:\nsatan was an angel just like other angels, he was created out of fire, while humans where made out of mud or clay or (dust and/or water) ( as many as referenced ).\ngod created angels first, they serve god and praise him all the time, he then created human and told the angels to kneel/bow to adam ( the first human ). all angels obeyed god except satan, he denied to kneel for adam and he said to god ( how do u want me to kneel to him when u made me out of fire and made him out of clay ) he was too proud to kneel for adam.\nofcourse this angered god and god promised him eternal hell, then satan as an act of replying to god, he told him ( i will seduce all humans to sin and misguide them from your way ), ofcourse satan hates humans and just wants to drive as many to hell with him as he can;\ngod told him ( do what you want, those who follow you will burn in hell with you forever. those who love me, those who worship me, those you wont have any authority on them, i shall embrace them and those shall be heaven ).\nin islam we beleive that we are all slaves of god, he is the only creator, the only god, the only power, the only forgiveness for our sins towards him, and the only one who decides who goes to heaven or hell, and the most merciful on us his slaves.\n\nsatan has no powers except whispering in your ear, making the sin look justified or seem tempting.\nAllah almighty said in quraan those meanings ( Satan will lead you to sin, he will make it look good, he will justify it, he will even make it look like the right thing to do, and Once you commit a sin, he will abandon you as his mission is accomplished ( thats why you regret doing a sin right after it, cuz he aint talking to u anymore, its ur god given consceince), Satan hates humans as they are the reason that god forsaken him, he hates humans because he thinks we are inferior to him, and he hates humans so he is trying to take as many as possible with him to hell )\n\nOnly God allah subhanah wa taala, Only him has the power of choosing who lives and who dies, Soul is already from god, nobody can ever create or end soul it is from god.\n\nall muslims hate satan, and we have books about his ways and manipulations, his lurings and temptings to sins, and we spend time studying them so we wont get dragged into them again.\n\npeace and blessings\nmuslim.
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I think people don't believe in them for\n1. the same reasons they don't believe in God\n2. Satan wants them NOT to believe.  If people don't believe, they are ignorant to his devices and tricks\n\nSome people have trouble admitting the existence of such an enemy as Satan. But his presence and activity are necessary to explain the problems of evil and suffering. The Bible makes it plain that Satan exists and that his main work is to oppose the rule of God in the affairs of man. Many wonder why God would allow Satan, this great embodiment of evil, to exist in His creation. No completely satisfying answer to this question has been found. Perhaps He allows it to show that evil and wrongdoing do not provide the key to the ultimate meaning of life which man so desperately desires. Or perhaps, He allows it to spiritually build a Christian’s wisdom and knowledge drawing them closer to God, and away from Satan.
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True!\n\nWe believe each and every verse in Quran is from Allah and is TRUE!\n\n Or say you that Ibrâhim (Abraham), Ismâ'il (Ishmael), Ishâque (Isaac), Ya'qûb (Jacob) and Al-Asbât [the twelve sons of Ya'qûb (Jacob)] were Jews or Christians? Say, "Do you know better or does Allâh (knows better… that they all were Muslims)? And who is more unjust than he who conceals the testimony [i.e. to believe in Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him when he comes, written in their Books. (See Verse 7:157)] he has from Allâh? And Allâh is not unaware of what you do."
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Actually, we DO believe that Jesus (saws) is the Messiah. We do believe he was born of a miraculous birth, was a wonderful Prophet of his time, performed many miracles by the will of God, and left a legacy that all can benefit from. We also believe that he will return to destroy the anti-Christ and restore the world to peace before the Day of Judgement. There are only two topics that Muslims and Christians disagree on when it comes to Jesus. The first is that Jesus is God's son or a part of God; we believe God is One, there's no other like Him, He begets not, nor was He begotten, no one deserve worship but Him, and only He can judge us. We also do not believe in the crucifixion; we believe that instead of letting him be slaughtered, God rose him up to heaven where he awaits until his time to return. He is the only human in heaven whose body has not yet died. Aside from these two issues, we agree on pretty much everything else!\n\nHope it helps you and good luck and God bless!
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First of all the Bible says that satan is the god of this world.  Why? Because GOD (The Almighty aka Jehovah) is allowing him to rule over earth for a short while.  Why? Because satan made a claim at the very beginning of mans existence challenging Gods sovereighty that had gone unchallenged for billions of billions of years.  With that being said God is just and fair as so as to let satan prove his point.  \n\nWhat you need to understand is that just like there are conterfeit dollar bills there are also conterfeit Christians.  False religion aka false Christians make it hard for honested hearted ones to find true Christians.  \n\nMost people that jump on Yahoo Answers and post religious questions have no Bible based knowledge and reject that knowledge when it is given to them directly from the scriptures.  Study your BIBLE.  Get to know your God.  Preserve your soul alive.
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:}\nYes \nMuslims believe that they will be resurrected on judgment day\nThey do not believe Jesus will be resurrected since they do not believe he ever died or that he was even crucified, they believe that a hoax was done and that another was crucified in his place. They believe that Isa (the Islamic Jesus) will come back by descending into a tower of a mosque in Damascus, that he will then assist the Mahdi (Islamic Messiah) in a battle against infidel Jews and Christians and all non-Muslims and that ISA (Islamic Jesus) will kill degal(their idea of anti-Christ , and probably our Jesus). he will break all crosses and have people worship the Mahdi and Allah. A great battle will ensue in which Muslims will kill all Christians who believe in the trinity and all Jews who do not accept Allah and infidels from all other religions.
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I assume you are speaking from a Christian perspective, I do not think modern Satanists read the bible as such.  Modern Satanism is very much akin to humanism, where the self is supreme, a form of self-worship.  Satanists do not necessarily directly worship a god called Satan but revere themselves as gods.  Some of a christian background may choose this 'religion' as it seems rebellious or 'scary'\n\nAs for a genuine worship of Satan ... well at least Lucifer, there is a group of people in the middle-east called the Yezedis who revere Lucifer, they have a similar creation story to genesis but believe the 'peacock angel/feathered serpent' was a wise mentor to mankind, and that God is impersonal and distant from mankind.  The Yezedis are very secretive about their religion and never refer to Lucifer as Satan, but call him the peacock angel or the feathered serpent.  They don't drink blood or sacrifice children, but they worship Lucifer and think he is good rather than evil.\n\nIn the past there were several pagan religions in the middle east that endorsed child-sacrifice, but these religions involved worship of various fertility gods rather than acknowledging a Judeo-Christian Satan.  In the bible it is written that various kings endorsed such religions and this lead to the downfall of Israel and Judah\n\nAs answer to your question why would someone willingly worship Satan while knowing about Jesus, a need to be different, rebelliousness and perhaps a severe religious upbringing\n\nPS I am not a satanist but fascinated by unusual things
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I think we must discern between believing in existance of someone and having faith in that person / being. If you don't believe in God (the fact that He exists), you consequently don't have to believe that Satan exists too, but if you accept God's words as true, then you will know Satan exists, because God said that he exists. What God tells us is not to trust Satan, even not to communicate with him under any circumstances. Those who are certain that Satan exists will either avoid him(as the result of knowing he is 'person' not to be trusted) or follow him because they reject God. In the end, I think that Satan is very pleased when people consider he doesn't exist, cause in that way he can fool them undercover.
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Well, they don't believe in or worship satan.  They state that they use the word "satan" as a symbol of anything inherently anti-Christian (ie- indulgence in sin).  They worship themselves.
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I thought that Muslims accepted the fact that Jesus was the Messiah. I don't know how that makes sense since they don't believe He was crucified and rose again on the third day, but then, I really don't know that much about Islam.
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Satan is very subtle.  He doesn't even want people to believe he exists.  Anything that causes people to doubt God and Jesus' divinity certainly helps Satan.  The world is a spiritual battleground, and most people aren't even aware of it.
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Satan is a liar, and the father of all lies, which means that anyone who ever lies is serving Satan.  A real Cristian never lies about anything.  islam is an anti-Christ lie, and muhammud was a liar.
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WHO ever said Christians believe in more than one GOD is wrong!! That is for starters. Muslims And Christians will get it to together and realize that their GOD is the same GOD because their is only one GOD and he has Many Names. So before you make a comment know what you are talking about to the person who made that dumb remark.!!!!!!!!!
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None.  There has been no evidence whatsoever of anyone being killed in the name of Satan.  Robert "The Night Stalker" Ramierez claimed that he was a Satan worshipper, but it turned out his claims were a put-on to agitate the press and get attention.  \n\nThe numbers of people killed in God/Allah's name are beyond counting.
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Yes. I have had people put my religion down before they even knew anything about it. Wicca. People(Christians in particular) assume that I worship Satan. I don't even believe in God or Satan. Satanists worship Satan, and Satanists came about after Christianity was thought of. My religion was around long before Christianity. It's just a form of manipulating energy. That's the easiest way of describing it.
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I'm not totally sure that these people's actions are fully from God. Not to be like anti-God or anything please don't assume, but Satan also has powers that influence people and can eventually take over their lives. Being a Christian, I don't believe that these men are really doing what you think they are, but I'm not speaking for the whole Christian body, just for me. On the counter, there's nowhere in the Bible that says, "miracle healers are fake," but I can't believe that this is true. There is a passage in the Bible that talks about weak Christians (people who believe that they have to wear a certain thing, look a certain way, do certain things, etc. not saying that they aren't Christians, they are) and strong Christians, (who believe that we can come to Jesus as we are and that He is the sacrifice for our sins.) I think that these miracle healers are the weaker Christians and the strong Christians must help them see that they don't have to do that. They think that they have to heal and touch people to make them well, when really the miracle is from God. I hope that you can make sense of all this. This is a very difficult passage of Scripture to understand.
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We don't BELIEVE in Satan so how can you worship something you don't believe in?  We also don't believe in hell or anything like that.  Satan, as Christians know the being, comes from Set, the Egyptian god of the Dead, nothing to do with us.