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Satan is sent by God to tempt us. He is identical with the Evil Inclination and the angel of death.
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Why were Jews painted as being inferior?
The Jews are God's people. Satan hates God. Therefore Satan hates the Jews. Many people are followers of Satan without knowing it. Therefore they often hate the Jews without knowing why. One manifestation of this hate is to assert that the Jews are inferior to them.
Did Satan bow to Adam and Eve?
Many Muslims believe that Satan was thrown out of heaven because he refused to bow down before Adam. Christians believe that Satan was thrown out of heaven, but usually for other reasons. Jews believe that Satan is still in heaven as the loyal assistant to God. In this view he was never required to bow down before Adam and Eve.
What did the Jews call Hitler?
Sub-humans
How does Satan view heaven?
With envy & disdain.
How does Satan feel towards God after his punishment?
Christian tradition holds that Satan was punished by being banished from heaven, probably as the result of a traditional misinterpretation of a passage in the Book of Isaiah. However, there is no biblical reference to Satan being punished or to his reaction to that punishment. One can rely on the Christian traditions behind this view, but they have no grounding in the Bible or accepted scripture. Judaism does not believe that Satan was ever punished by God. As portrayed in the Book of Job, Satan is held by Jews to be the loyal servant of God.
How do witches and wizards get their power?
From a Christian point of view they get their powers from satan.
What is the first mention of Satan or evil in any form of literature?
The first mention of Satan, although by another name, is in the ancient Gathas of the Zoroastrian religion. The 'Hostile Spirit' was Angra Mainyu, equally uncreated alongside Ahura Mazda, but ignorant and wholly malign. Zoroastrianism was the religion of the Persians, who liberated the Jews from Exile in Babylon, and it was only in post-Exilic times that the Jews began to write of Satan. However, the Jews had adopted a strongly monotheistic concept for Judaism and could not perceive of Satan as uncreated nor as an adversary to God. They began to perceive Satan as the loyal assistant to God, tasked with testing the righteousness of the faithful. It was not until the first century CE that the Cristians began to see Satan as an adversary to God, in the same way as Zoroastrianism does. There is no direct link that absolutely confirms that the Jews adopted Satan from Zoroastrianism, nor that the Christian understanding of Satan was influenced by Zoroastrianism, but there are too many coincidences otherwise. Angra Mainyu was Satan.
Is Satan a hero or antihero?
In Jewish belief, Satan is the loyal assistant of God, tasked with testing the righteousness of the faithful. In this sense, he could be called a hero.In Christian belief, on the other hand, Satan is the evil opponent of God. In this sense, he could be called an antihero.Why the difference? In Zoroastrianism, Angra Mainyu is the wholly malign adversary of the Persian god, Ahura Mazda. When the concept was adopted in Judaism after the Babylonian Exile, the Jews struggled with the notion of God having an opponent who could defy him. Deciding that this was not possible, the Jews adapted Satan to do God's bidding by challenging the faithful, as we see in the Book of Job. Christianity retained the concept of Satan as evil and adapted him away from the Jewish view of him.
Why did the Judean Jews view Galilean Jews with less respect?
There is no record of such an attitude.
Isz Islam a Jewish god or spirit?
I am not sure what you are asking, so I will try to explain somethings that you may find helpful. Judaism believes in one god called YHVH. In Judaism there are not really spirits. Judaism has angels which are seen as messengers of God. Judaism also does not traditionally have a devil. Satan in Judaism is an angel of God. Satan is the angel that tests man and calls into question man's sins when a person dies. Satan has a bad job, but Satan is not bad. Jews see the idea of an evil Satan as impossible because an angel cannot disobey God. A Jew might also view the Christian view of Satan as dualistic, a belief in two gods. In Christianity there is God, who is good, and Satan, who is evil. God and Satan are opponents, they fight each-other, this means that Satan is on equal playing field as God. Islam also believes in one God. In Islam Satan is a spirit who is not equal to God. Satan, just like humans, has free will. Satan is not on the same realm as God, he simply exists in God's universe doing what he chooses, Satan just happens to choose to do things that are evil. All religions have different interpretations, though, so you may be thinking of a unique cultural form of Judaism that might have a story of a spirit. I can say for certain, though, that there is only one god in Judaism. Christians, Muslims, and Jews all worship the same God.
Can Lucifer be saved?
There is any number of answers to this question, some of which depend on one's personal religious beliefs.First of all, the name Lucifer comes from Isaiah chapter 14, which refers to the king of Babylon, who laid the nations low. It talks of his pomp and splendour, how he had ruled the nations in anger, and his fate after his overthrow by the king of Persia. He had compared himself to the Morning Star (and was thus derisorily called 'Lucifer' - lucem ferre, which mean "light-bearer", a name for the dawn appearance of the planet Venus) and had thought that he would ascend into heaven and sit among the stars, but was now himself persecuted. Christian scholars misunderstood this text and assumed that it referred to Satan or the devil, a view that Judaism has never agreed with. The king of Babylon, 'Lucifer', is dead and need no longer concern us.Satan, the real subject of the question, is actually considered in Judaism to be the loyal assistant of God, tasked with testing the righteousness of the faithful. In this view, Satan does not need saving - he is already saved.In Christianity (and subsequently in Islam), Satan is the devil, the evil adversary of God. On this view, it would seem most unlikely that Satan can be saved. However, Christianity has its roots in Judaism and considers the Old Testament of the Jews to be its foundation. To hold that the Jews had their understanding so terribly wrong, for so many centuries, would surely require remarkable evidence, and that simply is not there. Christians can point to their saints who wrote the New Testament, just as the Jews can point to the prophets in turn. If Satan exists, the weight of the evidence seems to support Judaism on this issue.Which raises the secular view that Satan does not even exist, and therefore does not need saving. After all, Satan was never mentioned in any book written before the Babylonian Exile, when the notion of Satan may have been received by the Jews from their Persian benefactors.
Did Protestants view Muslims and Jews as Heretics?
Yes
