What if Satan wasn't so bad?

Question

what happened for God to exile Satan from heaven? was it because Satan was a non-conformist? i think i would be a little pissy too if someone told me i had to believe a certain thing and act a certain way. or was it simply because Satan thought he was better than God? i have read the bible, from what i understand of it, i am not sure that i agree. very open person, but very ignorant with (common) religion. seems as everything bad that happens it is blamed on Satan. isnt that kinda one sided? i dont have a bible from Satans word telling me what happened, just the only bible i have ever known, Gods word.

Answer 1

From what he's mentioned in the bible, Satan really isn't that bad at all. He stands for knowledge and natural human emotions, which God interprets as evil.

Answer 2

He got really jealous and wanted to be better than him. Think about it; would you invite someone into your house and let them stay there if they were always trying to be better than you?

Answer 3

What if Satan doesnt exist and all the wicked sh*t people do is there own ideas?

Answer 4

Well he might lay waste to your soul and have you burn in purgatory...but then again he's cool to kick back a few beers with and watch the game.  So....it's a judgement call really.

Answer 5

I don't know how old you are, but you are very insightful and brilliant.  II am over 63 years old and I am struggling with the same questions.  My last readings on Satan brings in the concept of good and bad, beautiful and ugly, etc.  The author speaks of a continuum.  Otherwise, there has to be bad for there to be good.  Other authors go as far as to say that the devil is a creation.  God or Nature is responsible for all things.  One minister told me that he, personally, had been blaming the Devil for things and found out that God was responsible for his trials.  One religion ( and some ancients)  does not consider trials, bad; but good --stumbling blocks that God places in front of one to make him stronger.  Thus the song:  Lord Don't Move the Mountain--Give Me the Strength to Stand.  And, "don't take away my stumbling blocks."

I like the take you have on Satan: If he had wrote the book...

Thank you, and God Bless you.

Answer 6

the concept of "Satan" is just used as a scapegoat.

The concept of God is just a fairytale.  But like all good tales, the hero needs a villain.  Thus Satan was created, and is the reason why God will never destroy or stop Satan.  It would take the scapegoat aspect out of the Abrahamic religions

But according to the bible God has killed a LOT more people than Satan has

Answer 7

Do you really want to hear Satan's side?

Being the "Father of lies" dont' you think you would get bad info?

Answer 8

this is the reason girls like ' bad boys "

he// yeah  !

bad boys get the hot girls !

Answer 9

What if God wasnt so good? Satan chose to rebel against God and he payed the price in full. That price was Eternal Damnation. Do not follow Satan.

Answer 10

Satan is always bad, and apparently hes tricking you into thinking God is bad.  

Answer 11

I'm Pagan, so I do not believe in the existence of the Christian Satan.

Answer 12

Moron. Try to get a brain, eternal evil? Its like Hitler rising from the dead and embracing Judaism.

Answer 13

Here's what you do.  Give yourself completely to Satan and go to h**l to worship him then come back here and tell us all how it turned out for you.

Answer 14

Yeah I was kind of confused too. God shunned people who believed or had anything to do with satan...so God is just some a*****e who can't take it when people don't like him or revolve their whole life around him so he goes and give them misfortune. Eh, whatever. lol

Answer 15

God did kill millions more people than Satan did during the course of the Bible.

edit: People are thumbing me down? READ THE d**n BOOK!

Answer 16

Hes wicked and he rebelled and sinned and was thrown out....well i guess you wont be living again then..It takes willingness...youre ranting

Answer 17

if satan wasn't bad christians and catholics would have no one to fear

Answer 18

According to the Judaism, Satan wasn't so bad; he did God's bidding.

Answer 19

Satan used to be good, according to The Bible.

I have listened to a man who knows out of body experiences really well. He knows how to do them quite often, etc. He said every once in a while, he'll encounter a demon or bad spirit. He said it's enough to make your bones shake because it's so terrifying.

Answer 20

the devil has been sinning from the beginning.

1 John3: 7-12

7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.



8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.



9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.



10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

Love one another



11 This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.

So the devil has been sinning from the beginning.

Answer 21

He's horrible and he's your enemy! He disobeyed God. He already knows he's going to h**l but he has till judgement day! He wants to take as many of us down there with him. He wants us to suffer as well in a fire. Dose that sound good to you?