How did Satan come to an existence?

Answer 1

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If one very carefully reads the twenth-eight chapter of Ezekiel, particularly verses 12 through 19, Satan's, who was called Lucifer, origin, purpose, fall and destiny is given. Satan in this instance is refered to a the King of Tyrus and also the cherub that covereth. Satan is a created being, having had a very high rank in the heavenly host before his downfall and subsequent condemnation. Satan is not the mythical ruler of hell as is often portrayed but indeed is destined to be cast into the lake of fire and there suffer eternally even as all the reject Jesus as the Christ.

Answer 2

The Zoroastrian religion saw Angra Mainyu, or Ahriman, as the evil adversary of the one true god, Ahura Mazda. Zoroastrianism was the religion of the Persians, who allowed the Jews to return to their former homeland and assisted with the rebuilding of the Temple and in providing religious instruction to the Jewish people.

We see from the biblical writings that Judaism first adopted the concept of Satan during the Babylonian Exile. However, Judaism saw Satan as the loyal assistant of God, tasked to test the righteousness of God's people. If Judaism took the concept of Satan from Zoroastrianism, it is unclear why they did not see him as an evil adversary to God.

Christianity evolved the Judaic concept back towards the original Persian concept, with Satan as the evil adversary of God. The Christian Satan is now remarkably similar to the Zoroastrian Ahriman.

Answer 3

Satan is a fallen angel.

Rv:12:7: And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

Lk:10:18: And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

But he transgressed.

Isa:14:12-16: How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13: For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

15: Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

16: They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

What was his sin?

Ezekiel:28:13-19:

13: Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

14: Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

15: Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

16: By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

17: Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

18: Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

19: All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more

Answer 4

Lucifer was an archangel before he was thrown out of Heaven by God. Lucifer means light-bearer in Latin. ________________________________________________________________________ I believe the etymology behind the word means 'opposition', It may not have been a being to begin with. Rather something to represent everything the white-light dogmas teach against, Like indulgence.

Answer 5

According to the Qur'an and the Islamic faith, the devil (like everything else) is a creation of the creator of the universe.

According to The Bible and the Christian faith, the devil was once an Angel named Lucifer who, after waging war against his Father and Creator (God) was given his own Kingdom (Hell).

The original Hebrew term, satan, is a noun from a verb meaning primarily to, "obstruct, oppose," as it is found in the Holy Bible. Ha-Satan is traditionally translated as "the accuser," or "the adversary."

Answer 6

First of all from a traditional theological perspective, the devil is thought to be a 'fallen angel'. There are many different stories about why Satan fell, with most of them dating back to medieval times.

Satan is not mentioned in the Bible in any book written before the Babylonian Exile, which gives us a clue as to just where the devil really came from. In Babylon, the Jews came into contact with the Persians, who freed them and even financed the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple. Understandably, the Jews considered the Persians to be their benefactors and continued to hold them in high regard long after the end of the Persian era. Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Persians, Angra Mainyu, the 'Hostile Spirit', was the adversary of Ahura Mazda.

After the Babylonian Exile, Satan entered Jewish thought, at one stage as a hostile adversary, but in later Judaism as the loyal assistant to God, tasked with testing the righteousness of the faithful. Christianity never adapted in the way that Judaism did, maintaining that Satan is the 'devil', a source of evil.

Answer 7

God created him and gave him the Earth to rule over. He is in charge of it today and will remain so till Christ defeats him and his army in the Battle of Armagedon.

Answer 8

Lucifer was one of God's angels who rebelled in the mindset that he was greater than God. God thre him out of heaven.