Do you beleive in the theory that Satan was kicked out of Heaven?
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That story symbolizes our dreaming that we became separate from God.  God's Son became afraid, dreamed he was someone else, and all kinds of tales and terrible images came into his mind.  But he has slept for but the single blink of an eye.  We remain as God created us.
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Christianity kind of messes up on this bit of theology. According to them, there was a war in heaven between Satan and God, and Satan got cast to Earth.  At the same time, they say that heaven is a wonderful, joyous place of eternal bliss that we should all strive to attain. I posit that these two concepts are incompatible. It means that there is sin and rebellion in heaven, and if there was one war, there might be others that Christians don't know about. Why bother going to a place that is no better than Earth??\n\nAnd yes, the word "lucifer" does NOT refer to Satan at all. It is a LATIN word, not a Hebrew name, and was used to translate the words "morning star," or "son of the morning."  It is actually a reference to the planet Venus, which is very bright and can be seen in the early dawn sky; it precedes the sun and so is called the "bringer of light" and similar titles in many cultures. This title is found in Isaiah ch.14, in a prophecy about the king of Babylon. It has nothing to do with Satan, but is a poetic reference to how the king aspired to greatness and would be cast down to the dirt. Christians take it literally, but if they would actually READ the entire chapter--and the one preceding it--they would see that the context can in no way refer to an angelic being. It is all about Israel and Babylon. Funny how Christians always accuse us skeptics of taking things out of context, when they do it all the time, in order to make scriptures mean what THEY want them to mean, and not what they actually say!
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It's an interesting story. Although, I believe that heaven and hell is much different. I believe that to get to either one or the other, we choose. Now this is where people get lost. Obviously no one chooses to go to hell (not that they know of). I believe that hell is a place where we are separated from God. Therefore our soul burns with grief and we gnash our teeth. Heaven is a place where we are connected with God. We are designed to be with God and that is why it burns to be separated. You see, people choose all their lives to live without God. God simply gives them what they have always wanted. Separation.
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A Satanist died and went to Heaven. St Peter met him at the door. \n\n"You can't come in here," Peter said.\n \n\nThe Satanist asked why.\n\n\n"You're a Satanist.. sorry. But Hell isn't so bad. Your friends are there, and they say it's cool."\n\n \n\nThe Satanist is depressed but goes anyway, because he was, well, a Satanist.\n\n \n\nSo he goes to Hell and is greeted by a beautiful green field with people picnicking and having a great time. A man in a white comes over to him and presents himself as Satan, and Satan tells him of all the delights in what appears to be a 5 star resort.\n \n\n"Wow!" thinks the Satanist. "Hell is awesome! I'm happy to be here."\n\n \n\nSuddenly, the sky gets black and fire spews from the ground. A screaming, flaming man falls from the sky and is swallowed by a crack in the earth. After he disappears, everything returns to normal.\n\n \n\n"What the heck was that?!" the Satanist asks Satan.\n \n\nSatan replies, "That was a Christian. They wouldn't have Hell any other way." \n\n----------------------------
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i think god already did when he sent his only begotten son jesus christ on earth to suffer and die for all the sins of human race, to "repair the damage", that whoever believes in him will be saved. god never meant for lucifer to be the bad guy that he turned out to be. blaming god or anybody for that matter is pointless coz what's done is done.
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It is my understanding that they believe that satan & Jesus are half brothers, or something close.  I too would like to know where they get this idea.\nWhere do they get this idea????
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I think it went much further than Gay.  Much of the old writing were of a vengeful God. One whose name you could not mention.  Jesus freed us from the old testament.  Beside Jesus told us to love your brother, sounds pretty perverted to me.  But also pretty open minded.  His first invite to heaven was a theif wasn't it. If God is good and the Devil is evil both without the other concept in them aren't they equals in some sense. Hell was in the times of the Bible only a burning pit for the evilest of criminals outside the gates of Jerusalem not someplace of eternal damnation
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Very true and very sad.  It's horrible that those who have answered other questions here and claimed to haved live as Christians previously, but have turned away don't realize that also.  It's silly that those who don't believe honestly think they can have so much hate and it comes from themselves, but then claim that Christians are the ones who hate.  They don't understand that because of our love for God we will defend Him to the end, fully acknowledging that He does not need our help, He certainly can handle it!!  But that Satan wants to put anger and fear and doubt in all of us.  Satan's total reason for being is to turn us away from God...he has no other purpose.
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Satan was cast down to the earth by God. God Then made man and gave him domenon over the earth and ever living creature.. because satan has now lost the control of the earth to man.  satan then tricks man into sin, seperating man and God. because of Gods Holyness & being True. \nPENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH, \nMan goes threw a period of spirital and physical death.  while satan reclaims the earth for himself.     \nthen God prepairs the greatest sacrafice.  Which was Jesus Christ and through repentece & acceptence man Is restored to his place with God.  Clean from sin.  and given a new purpous to go and tell anyone who will listen that he or she can be restored.  \n     Every man & every woman would like to know that the people that stand with them, by there side are there because they  choose to out of love.  Nobody wants a robot for a friend.  God doesnt Ether.  My purpous is to serve a God who loves me enough to give his own life in my place.   what is your purpous????????
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Yes, but not in the traditional sense.  They were identified, more or less.  Ever heard of angels?  How about a chariot of fire that took Elijah to heaven?  And Enoch who was here one day and the next, he was taken from earth?  Then, of course, there is the book of Revelation.
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He was not,but he was under the Lucifers influence ..i believe.
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Satan is a fallen spiritual being whose condition is immaterial to tangible matter, e.g. catastrophic flood waters.  He is pretty much invincible until his time is up and Christ Jesus returns; and in the final battle Satan is vanquished, chained and imprisoned (supernaturally) for 1,000 years, during the Millennial Kingdom of Christ.\n\nPeople's notion that Satan is already in Hell is entirely inaccurate.  He is enthroned along with very powerful fallen seraphim in the Lower Heaven, which is also called the Outer Circle.  They occupy thrones meant for God’s Chosen, but they will be dethroned when the Great Heavenly Battle ensues.  This is when the Archangel Michael and the other Divine Angels will cast Satan out of heaven and onto the Earth at the end of this Earth Age.  People have utterly no idea of the magnitude of this event.  Think of all the evil that has ever besieged our Earth.  Well, it is child's play compared to the Great Malevolent Forces that are about to be unleashed upon the Earth for the very first time.
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Pride blinds you from knowing the truth and living it. A lesson for all of us, I think.\n\nRepentance is not possible for Satan. Jesus did not die for the sins of fallen angels, so Satan and his cohorts do not have a way out. We do. Thank God!
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The world that Satan has been in from Eden will end. Satan is put in the pit at the second coming of Jesus, Eph.3:21; The world of Jesus never ends, he beings eternity. He makes all perfect as it was before it was lost. This takes time from Eden, do not worry about time before that.\n\nAdam--------- 000 + 000 = 930 + 3136 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \nSeth----------103 + 912 = 1042 \nEnos----------235 + 905 = 1140 \nCainan--------325 + 910 = 1235 \nMahalaleel--- 395 + 895 = 1290 \nJared---------460 + 962 = 1422 \nEnoch---------622 + 365 = 0987 \nMethuselah--- 687 + 969 = 1656 \nLamech--------874 + 777 = 1651 \nNoah---------1056 + 950 = 2006 + 2060 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \nShem---------1558 + 600 = 2158 \nArphaxad-----1658 + 483 = 2141 \nSalah--------1693 + 433 = 2126 \nEber-------- 1723 + 464 = 2187 \nPeleg--------1757 + 239 = 1996 \nRue----------1787 + 239 = 2026 \nSerug--------1819 + 230 = 2049 \nNahor--------1849 + 148 = 1997 \nTerah--------1878 + 205 = 2083 \nAbraham------2008 +  75 = 2083 \nAbraham------2083 + 100 = 2183 + 1883 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \nIsaac--------2108 + 188 = 2288 + 1778 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \nJacob--------2168 + 147 = 2315 + 1751 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \nJoseph------ 2258 + 110 = 2368 + 1698 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \nLevi---------2249 + 137 = 2386 \nKohath-------2309 + 133 = 2442 \nIssachar-----2255 +  38 = 2293 \nJob----------2293 + 140 = 2433 + 1633 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \nAmram--------2369 +  61 = 2430 \nAmram--------2369 +  64 = 2433 \nAaron--------2430 + 123 = 2553 \nNum.33:38,39; \nMoses--------2433 + 450 = 2883 \nSamuel Acts 13:20; \nMoses--------2473 +  40 = 2473 \nMoses--------2473 + 450 = 2923 \nEli 1Sam.4:15,18; \nMoses--------2473 +  40 = 2513 \nAbraham----- 2083 + 430 = 2513 \nExo.7:7; 12:41[At 430]; \nMoses--------2433 + 120 = 2553 + 1513 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \nDeut.1:3; 34:7; \nCaleb--------2475 +  85 = 2560 \nJosh.14:7,10; \nJudge Jair---2553 + 301 = 2854 + 1212 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \nJdgs.11:26;--2854 +  29 = 2883 \n1Sam.7:2,13,15; \nSamuel-------2883 +  76 = 2959 + 24 2983 + 1083 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \nDavid--------2959 +  70 = 3029 + 1037 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \n2Sam.5:4,5; \nMoses--------2553 + 480 = 3033 \n1Ki.6:1[480 years]; \nSolomon------3033 +  36 = 3069 +  997 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \n1Ki.11:42; \nJudah kings--3069 + 391 = 3460 = 606 BCE.      \nZedekiah-----3460 +  606 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \nProphecy\n3460+ 2520 = 5988, Now today: 6072, 2612 and 2006 CE.    \nDan,4:16,23,25,32[7 x 360 = 2520]; \n3623 + 443 BCE + 2006 CE = 6,072 \n7:25[2500 Michael]; \n8:12-14[2300 bible]; \n12:1-7[2500 Michael Rev.12:7-12= 2520]; \n12:8-10[2520 = 1914 CE and WW1. Rev.11:1-3[2x 1260 = 12:7-12]; \n12:11[2x 1290 = 2580 - 2520 = 60]; \n12:12[2x 1335 = 2670 now year 92 = 2612]; \nRev.9:1-5[5 x 30 = 150 pit open for Satan]; \nRev.20:1-6; the 1000 year reign of Christ to make all new.
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It was added to Revelations. Satan did not exist in the bible, as he does today, until King James. Infact some believe that most of Revelations has been changed, added to, etc.
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I read the answers people posted and i must say i'm appaled. God gave satan domain over the earth to do with what he could.  He's trying to pull as many people away from God as possible, we are also entering the time where revelations is coming true, Jesus is going to return and it won't be an extremely long time.  This is the havoc that satan is causing because it's his last chance to keep people away from God.  He wants God's people to turn to him and away from God and many many people are, that why this exsistence is so hard, Satan is tempting, teasing and testing.   Stay on the right fork of the road my friend and you'll be just fine hun.
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I think the breaking up of Christ's Church into the various denominations was Satan's greatest victory. I ALSO believe that God USED that action to provide a variety of paths to Him that are still through Jesus. So now everyone can find their most comfortable path to Him with confidence.\nSo to Satan: HAH!