So how exactly did satan come about?

Question

wasnt satan an angel and then turned against god, if so what prevents another angel from rising against god

Answer 1

Came from Babylonian mythology plus other pagan sources, Just an imaginary thing. Of course we use him as a "symbol" of the crazy things we do.

Answer 2

Only your imagination is the limit....

Answer 3

Satan was originally shaytan, a class of fire-demons found in the ancient Zoroastrian religion.

Although they were termed 'demons' that doesn't necessarily mean they were malevolent or evil.

The term was adopted by the Hebrews and then by Christianity and morphed into what we have today.

A similar evolution was the transformation of "peris," from ancient Persian folklore and religion, into what we know as 'fairies.'

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peri

Answer 4

God created all the angels. Satan saw Gods power and wanted that for himself and turned agaisnt god yes.

Nothing prevents angels from rising against God. There are already many who have done that. Satan and his demons. His followers.

But even if they do rise up, they won't win.

Revelation fortells of a time called Armaggedon when Satan and his demons will wage a heavenly war against God and they will lose and be locked up in the abyss during the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ, while humans make there way back to perfection on Paradise earth.

After that, Satan will be let loose for a little while to have one last crack. Then he and his demons will be destroyed forever.

this is all about the issue if universal soverignty that Satan brought up when he challend God along long time ago. That will be solved with Satan's ultimate demise.

Answer 5

Lucifer is a fallen angel who made war with heaven and was defeated by the army of the Archangel Michael and cast out of heaven. The whole horns on the head and the cloven feat would probably be the church demonising Pan and others from older pagan traditions

Answer 6

satan and his angels were thrown out from heaven to earth yes...bad to hear that, they got the name "fallen angels" and these are demons with satan....and other ones are not obsessed by satan...because satan was in heaven that time, thats why he could obsess them...i am satans enemy and hate him...i am "semi-christian" (a christian who has not wiped out his fear and anger emotions yet)

Answer 7

"Satan" is a Hebrew word that means:  Enemy.  You are asking about the 'fallen angels.'  Yes, Lucifer (also known as 'Satan') was a fallen angel.  He is considered the one who led the rebellion in Heaven against God when he refused to be servile to a creature he considered less than he.  And since it was the woman, the Mother of Christ that God expected His angels to serve Satan considered this to be sub-servile, way beneath his dignity!   When Lucifer refused to follow God's Command Michael the Archangel challenged Lucifer (a higher rank of angel than Michael) and ousted Lucifer from Heaven.  Those angels that rallied behind Lucifer were also ousted from Heaven by Michael and the remaining angels who would not fall to the sin of pride and disobedience.  And so Satan came to Earth to seek the ruination of... Man (and women since he directly blamed the Woman for his fall!).

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Answer 8

it is the balance of good and evil...

opposites,  

darkness/light

good/evil

yin/yang

you can't have one without the other.

Answer 9

Satan was Lucifer, the archangel who watched over the mercy seat (Christ's thrown) at the right hand of God. He was created in the full pattern of beauty, he was the most beautiful of Gods creations. He became boastful, prideful and arrogant and viewed himself as the one who should have the seat of Christ. He tempted 1/3 of Gods children away from following God and is the only angel to be sentenced to death. No other angel has been that foolish. Michael is now the arch angel.

Answer 10

Yes, he was the plotting angel.

Answer 11

Shaitan was originally a neutral judge,who decided who would enter Paradise,and who stayed in Limbo.Like many other deities,it was the Christians who 'demonised' him.