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Is the Devil another god or is He just a Concept?

Is the Devil just a non-physical conceptual non-entity that serves mainly to represent all the Evils of the Material World in a metaphysical way?

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  • 10 years ago
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    The devil is another god i.e. just a concept

  • Elijah
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    The Scriptures portray Satan the Devil as a real person. The Devil is a spirit creature and therefore he is invisible to humans for the same reason that God is invisible to human eyes. “God is a Spirit,” says the Bible. (John 4:24)

    Some contend that Satan is simply the "personification of the evil." However, the biblical evidence showing that Satan is a real person include the instances where Satan actually CONVERSED with others. (Genesis 3:1-5) God Himself talks to Satan at Job 2:1-7 and Jesus does too at Luke 4:3-12. Satan cannot be the "personification of the evil" since God and Jesus do not have any evil at all in them.

    Another instance showing how Satan is a real person is the account at Rev. 12:7-9, where Michael and his angels actually waged war with Satan and had him "hurled down to the earth". This would make no sense if Satan was merely the "personification of the evil".

    For much more about this, see:

    Is the Devil Real?

    http://www.watchtower.org/e/20051115/article_02.ht...

  • Sarah*
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    The Devil is not real. He is just a concept that represents human beings. I see it that God and the Devil represent the duality human nature. Why else would God be human in figure, or at least that is what it says in the Bible?

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    The Bible is the chief source of evidence. There he is repeatedly referred to by name (Satan 52 times, Devil 33 times). Eyewitness testimony as to Satan’s existence is also recorded there. Who was the eyewitness? Jesus Christ, who lived in heaven before coming to earth, repeatedly spoke of that wicked one by name.—Luke 22:31; 10:18; Matt. 25:41.

    What the Bible says about Satan the Devil makes sense. The evil that mankind experiences is far out of proportion to the malice of the humans involved. The Bible’s explanation of Satan’s origin and his activities makes clear why, despite the desire of the majority to live in peace, mankind has been plagued with hatred, violence, and war for thousands of years and why this has reached such a level that it now threatens to destroy all mankind.

    Job 1:6-12 and 2:1-7 tell about conversations between Jehovah God and Satan. If Satan were the evil in a person, the evil in this case would have to be in Jehovah. But that is in complete disagreement with what the Bible tells us about Jehovah as being One “in whom there is no unrighteousness.” (Ps. 92:15; Rev. 4:8) It is noteworthy that the Hebrew text uses the expression has‧Sa‧tan′ (the Satan) in the accounts in Job, showing that reference is being made to the one who is outstandingly the resister of God.

  • 10 years ago

    He's kinda like a fallen angel cuz he was an angel before he decided to go against God.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    yes

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Neither.

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