God and Satan - the same person????
929913
An argument could be made -- a yin yang comparison.  Even from a more traditional Judaeo-Christian perspective, since god is omnipresent, couldn't he be both god and satan?  A method of introducing free will, perhaps.
53865
Whoooaa. I thought Lucifer was satans name.  Its hardly worshipping him by calling him that.  If you are correct..ok.  But again its not worshipping him.
467991
Satan is doesn't have any power his powers were striped off him when Jesus died and rose again. being god no its people that makes him their god. I serve a true and powerful GOD who will judge the earth one day
947415
hmmm. wel lthat all depends on wether you see satan as a diety. according to the mythology satan isnt as powerful as god. yet interestingly the mythology also says satan can do many magical things, tuening into other people, making people do things, invading their bodies. if anything it seems that satan has more powers than god. apaprently god has the omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence down but can he transform his figure and invade peoples bodies?\n\napaprently not.\n\ni think this question raises another similar queston....are christians monotheists? they also beleive in satan...satan seems to be close to if not as powerful as god...\n\nlogically it seems christians (and satanists) are not monotheists...polytheists perhaps.
716315
Sure! unless God is forcing Satan to be bad, the repentance of Satan is possible.
1082991
Satan is a far better teacher than god too.  Satan taught me addition, subtraction, etc. algebra, geometry, calculus.  Satan explained why 1+3 = 4.  God just said it is because he says it is.
998264
F, because God (probably) doesn't exist, but if he did, then it would be E.  Some people say it was Satan, but the thing is everything Satan does he has to get the O.K. from God first (as seen in the story of Job)  It'd be kind of like how even though the Godfather doesn't kill the people in the Maffia, he does order the deaths.
1079797
hmmm seems intresting, how can one worship both satan and God though, seems a bit contradictory.  the "not harming children"  yes, but as for the church of satan being added to any type of Christian beliefs seems to be contradicting the Christian faith all together.
271097
Wow what a great question. So I understand. God created everything, he created the devil, and therefore he created sin. (which is the breaking of Law.. which he created!)\nSo when people say oh... its the devils work, its is just as much gods work too, just as much as a pretty flower is his work, so is the the Tsunami and 9/11... Ok so god is good.. but god is Evil too!\n\nHe doesn't deserve my worship.
582817
Satan doesn't exist, therefore he cannot be chained in heaven, nor can he be loose on earth.  Sorry to disillusion you.
1147274
A better question: Since Satan is so smart, would he REALLY make it so that "his work" can be picked out so easily? Satan could be GOD for all humans know; don't you think that would be the more ingenious move?
91687
Your question should be:  Why does God ALLOW Satan to torture us?  What sick joy does God get from this?  \n\nSome may say I am blaspheming God.  He has not struck me with a lightning bolt yet...so I guess I am safe from His wrath.  \n\nSatan is just God's servant.  In any court of law, God would be more culpable than Satan.\n\nThey say the cleverest thing Satan has done is convince the world he does not exist.  Well, we could also say the trickiest thing God does is convince us Satan DOES exist.\n\nFor more on the "Problem of Evil" see my extensive response to that question too.
809565
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.
1109157
no he is not. read the book of job again. the members of the heavenly court was coming to god and the deceiver with them and god ask satan where have you come from and satan said to and fro the ends of the earth seeking to destroy and devour.
673933
Evil is the creation of the deity "god" plain & simple. He is the sole creator and therefore he created Satan and his crew. Sure he started out as an angel, but wouldn't the deity "god" see that one coming? His evil gives him something to do you know...so he won't feel useless.
1041104
God created Satan too .. Goodness and wickedness should be exist so God tests us and knows who is the good and who is the bad one .
732371
If it all be true God and Satan and the whole bit. Satan has done his work through the manipulation of people through the very thing that they think is protecting them from him. Come on a creature like Satan, with powers and has been around for who knows how long, you don't think he was smart enough to think of that and do it? It's what I would have done and I am just a regular mortal person, and if someone tries to twist that idea by saying things like God would never let the Devil do that, well he need not do it him self, he could just manipulate someone else to do it. People talk about the coming of the anti-Christ, maybe he was already here, say about one thousand, nine hundred and sixty years ago. That would have been about the right time for him to do all the damage to the human race that he needed to through their own religion. This maybe the reason the Bible is so absurd. Knowing some would buy into it and other wouldn't, know that this would put people in opposition to each other. I would have done the same thing.