Discussion»Questions»Religion and Spirituality» Why do you think God cast Satan down to earth where he has caused all the trouble here instead of some remote uninhabited planet?
SATAN is the physical. Satan is all that this world encompasses. It is not real. It is EGO. It is a movie and it is not remotely important. There is NOTHING for us here. NOTHING. We are spiritual beings living a human life as an experiment in how to evolve and get back to GOD.
Our souls are having an adventure in hell. We are going back to paradise soon, wiser and closer to God. The Source.
Well, it is not more silly than what you just said.
Judaism casts Satan not always as a sentient being, but as a metaphor for the evil inclination. However, God created both good and evil.
It is apparent the early Christian founders sought a scapegoat for man’s iniquity, an evil foil; to cast mortal men as feckless pawns, and preserve their God’s image as stainless. Islam took that even further, by casting Satan as a being essentially tasked by Allah to drag the souls of impure men to the eternal fire.
The mythology is inconsistent, but evolved. All can be traced back to the ancient Egyptian religion, Osiris, and the denizens of their underworld
None of this has anything to do with Trump being President.
This post was edited by Don Barzini at September 23, 2019 1:25 PM MDT
No need to try again. There is only one book in the entire Jewish Canon that portrays Satan as a sentient being. Ha-Satan being but one iteration of the whole. In others, Satan is described as an “impediment”, a tool of God to test men.
As I said, the mythology is inconsistent, maybe you’d be better served to read entire posts.
This post was edited by Don Barzini at September 23, 2019 10:46 AM MDT
Three - he's also an entity in Job and Zechariah, as well as Chronicles.
Judaism does draw from the Babylonian pantheon and mythology, but practically nothing from Egyptian. Only the word "Hebrew" (which they never, ever applied to themselves) is derived from an Egyptian insult - he biru, roughly "cave man". The Biblical account of the Flood is most certainly mirroring the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh.
This post was edited by Slartibartfast at September 23, 2019 5:52 PM MDT
On that, we agree. The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh is most certainly the source of the Noahide flood tale. Particulars of the Jewish faith and Satan were clearly drawn from the Babylonians (and Sumerians), as we know the Jewish faith arose from the time of the Babylonian exile. But the precepts of the underworld, eternal afterlife, souls, and malevolent lesser deities were disseminated earlier from the Egyptians. If we are to believe Exodus, one of the five books reputedly put to script by Moses himself, it can be argued his being raised to adulthood in the house of pharaoh could have imparted Egyptian influences. But that is all academic.
This post was edited by Don Barzini at September 23, 2019 1:27 PM MDT
Satan didn't make Trump President. It's Beelzebub who is "Lord of the Lies". One of the fallen thrones, but His Royal Orangeness just isn't important enough to command the attention of the Prince.
Because 1/3 of His children fought with Satan and 1/3 with God and the other 1/3 sat on the sidelines and waited to see the winner. God did not want to destroy 2/3 of His children so He semt us here. The meaning of life is to decide who we will follow God or Satan.
So in short it is another chance to redeem those who failed to God.
WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH 
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