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Is Satan more powerful than God?

I need to know this. As an atheist, I'm usually called a 'son of Satan' or a 'devil worshiper' or such other trite idleness.

Since supposedly, Christians spend time building a relationship with god and observing rituals, praying to get into contact with him, while following his revelation in the bible, while following his commandments, I would take that those things are mandatory for one to be considered a follower of god.

Since I don't worship satan, nor pray for him, not observe any rituals tied to him, nor read his scripture (I'm not even aware of such a scripture existing), not pray to him, nor obey any of his supposed commandments, the logical deduction would be that satan is more powerful than god, since god needs all those things, while satan can just go fine without them.

What sayeth thou?

Update:

So, supposedly, to be " friends" with god you need to talk to him, and to be friends with satan I must not talk to god?

Can I just, you know, not be friends with either? They seem both rather imaginary.

Why the need for false dichotomy? If I'm not friends with Bob, I don't automatically become friends with Steve.

Can't I just tell them both to piss off and find another alien race to play a cosmic game of The Sims on?

Update 2:

@ Gaylee Mchugh

Is that the same bible who can tell whether a woman was unfaithful by drinking some bitter water who will make her belly swell and rot?

The same bible who states that man is made from earth, when in reality, sillicium, which is a major element found in earth is extremely rare in the human body?

The same bible who tells that the earth has corners, that stars will fall down to earth, and that climbing to the tallest mountain one could see all the kingdoms of the world?

Astonishing theory, professor.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    I'd much rather worship satan, he was a revolutionary martyr against a cruel tyrant that is still in power.

  • 9 years ago

    I wouldn't call you a Devil worshipper or son of satan, but the reason some people might say that is simply your lack of choice. In Christianity there is no middle road such as Atheism because if you do not choose God, the only other option is Satan. And your logical conclusion is wrong because of the word need. God doesn't need all of those things, we do in order to have a relationship with Him. Think of a normal friend, how do you get to know them better? Spend time with them, talk with them, read anything they've written(ha?), so it works the same way with God. Its a relationship.

  • 9 years ago

    How can Satan be more powerful than God when it was God created him? God created him and God can destroy him, but he challenged God, Satan asked god to delay his punishment and said he would mislead Gods creations (us) and God accepted his challenge so now those who dont believe are considered to be under the influence of Satan. You say you dont worship Satan but being a Atheist is what Satan likes you to be. Those who dont believe in god will be sent to hell and punished along with Satan. Just what I believe. Also god doesnt need us to worship him, infact life is a gift from god. It is us that needs God. If we worship God, well be rewarded.

  • 9 years ago

    No. yet, come christians seem to worship him more than God. So to some christians, yes, he is more powerful because they give satan all the power and talk about him more than God.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    SEE! THE BIBLE WOULD EXPLAIN ALL OF THIS.SO MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE TO READ THE BIBLE AS AN INTERESTING MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE BOOK. YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED AT WHAT HAPPENS. DID YOU KNOW THE BIBLE TELLS US THE EARTH IS ROUND? THAT WAS WRITTEN WAY BEFOR COLOMBUS SHOWED UP.. DID YOU KNOW THAT THE BIBLE TELLS US BACTERIAL DESEASES, HOW TO TREAT THEM, AND HOW TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGD BEFORE MADAM CURRIE WAS EVER AROUND? I WAS AN ATHIEST, THEN ONE DAY I PICKED UP THE BIBLE TO READ IT, SO THAT I COULD WIN ARGUMENTS WITH CHRISTIANS...WHEN I DISCOVERED WHAT WAS IN THE BIBLE I READ IT AGAIN. THEN I READ IT WITH SCIENCE BOOKS. HEBREW AND GREEK TRANSLATION BOOKS. WELL NOW I'M A CHRISTIAN. GOD LOVING, SATAN HATEING PERSON. ANY WAY I HOPE YOU TRY THIS AND SEE WHAT YOU THINK AFTER THE FIRST TIME OF READING GODS WORD....HOPE THIS HELPS AND GOD BLESS

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    • Lucifer was a perfect angel and loyal servant of God until God began the practice of killing innocent children. At first, Lucifer stood by as God destroyed all the innocent babies in the world during Noah's flood. He begged God to make the children just disappear instead of enduring drowning but God refused. It become more difficult for Lucifer, when God insisted in burning the skin off of babies using molten sulfur (brimstone) when God decided to kill all the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. God insisted that, since he was God, it was not a sin to slaughter babies. All must die, no exceptions. The final straw came when God decided to kill all the first born of Egypt because God was angry at Pharaoh. Lucifer begged that the innocent babies of the Egyptian peasants be spared as they had no knowledge of what was going on inside Pharaoh's court. Lucifer begged that if God insisted on killing children, at least limit the slaughter to those members of the court who were aware of the Israelite's plight. God would have none of it, and hundreds of thousands of innocent Egyptian children died at God's hand.

    Lucifer had had enough and revolted against the evils of a God who chooses to slaughter innocent children rather than to seek other ways to make his point. But Lucifer failed and he and one third of all the inhabitants of Heaven were banished to Hell. There Lucifer vowed that there would be no more killing of innocents and other ways would be found to try to convince humans from following God. In the Bible, there are numerous instances where God directed that everyone be slaughtered (eg. Jericho) but Satan (he even changed his Heavenly name) directed that no one was to be slaughtered. The Bible demonstrates that Satan doesn't slaughter people. When Satan meets Jesus, he begs Jesus to turn away from the evils of God. If Satan were God he would have slaughtered Jesus but instead he offered Jesus riches and a Kingdom. But, alas, Jesus was too far gone.

    Hell remains a place free of the slaughter of innocent babies. While it is described as a place of torture by the followers of God, it simply isn't true. Satan does not need to be forgiven by God. God is the one with a history of killing children

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    God nor Satan do not exist so none of neither one of them are powerful.

    From the Christian beliefs Satan is not more powerful than God.

  • 9 years ago

    Well seeing a Satan tried to take down God and epically failed, I think not.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    http://satanslibrary.webs.com/Origins_of_Satanism....

    This excerpt quote from the Catholic Encyclopedia is very revealing:

    In the same way the Greeks and Romans may have worshipped their divinities, fondly believing them to be good. But the Christian Scriptures declare that all the gods of the Gentiles are demons.

    Catholic Encyclopedia: Devil Worship

    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04767a.h%E2%80%A6

    DEMONS ARE THE GODS OF THE GENTILES!!!!

    Satanism is not a Christian invention

    Satanism predates Christianity and all other religions

    Satanism is not about "evil"

    Satanism is not about death

    True Satanism is about elevating and empowering humanity to reach equality with the Gods, which was our True Creator (Satan's) intention

    "IN THE SECRET OF MY KNOWLEDGE THERE IS NO GOD BUT ME"

    -SATAN

    From "Peace Be Unto Him"

    http://www.joyofsatan.com/

    Due to centuries of misinformation, lies, and the systematic removal of knowledge, few people these days understand or even know what “Satanism” really is all about.

    Christianity has been at liberty to dictate without any opposition, what they CLAIM Satanism to be. In order to accomplish this, the truth had to be destroyed. The Catholic Church (the original Christian Church, from which all Christian sects have evolved), heinously tortured to death and mass-murdered millions of innocent men, women and children in what was known as "The Inquisition." Some children who were burnt to death in what were known as "witch houses" were as young as two years of age.

    Christians forever rant and rave concerning the "one world order" where all identities, cultures, personal privacies, and liberties will be lost and humanity, after being systematically bar-coded, will be lumped into a one-world slave state. What they fail to see is how their own so-called "religion" and bible have always been and are the roots of and blueprint for this regime. Everything in the Judeo/Christian Bible has been stolen and corrupted from religions predating Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from hundreds to thousands of years. Through Judaism and its tool of Christianity, all of the original spiritual teachings from around the world, (which are CONCEPTS) have been stolen from, lumped together into the "one," and corrupted into Jewish archetypes and characters and fictitious places. This has given the Jewish people as a whole a false history, political power and "spiritual" authority to which they are not entitled.

    The bible is a very powerful subliminal tool to control the masses. One can see this is a man-made work as there are endless contradictions. The bible has been systematically drummed into the minds of the populace from a very early age. A lie must always be enforced as opposed to the truth which can stand on its own. Because spiritual knowledge and occult power have been removed and kept in the hands of a "chosen" few, the unknowing populace has been helpless against it. The agenda here is to create a one-world slave state with the "chosen" few ruling at the top. The perpetrators of course blame Satan to create a necessary distraction, while they use occult power to accomplish their ends. They have a history of stealing from and blaming their enemies for everything they really are and do, while always holding themselves in the highest esteem and innocence.

    The original religions now known as "Satanism" (by the way, "Satan" means "enemy" in Hebrew), were all based upon what is known as the "Magnum Opus" or Great Work. The one known as "Satan" is our True Creator God. He was prevented by the other Gods from finishing his work on humanity, that of the godhead. The godhead is physical and spiritual perfection. Now, if you continue to read on, I will prove this.

    The serpent is seen everywhere in ancient relics and structures. The serpent was held sacred in all areas of the ancient world. Satan is the God Ea, aka ENKI, one of the first of the Nephilim to arrive on this planet and establish the first civilization. In Sumerian mythology, Enki's symbol was always the serpent.

    The serpent represents the DNA, the life force and the kundalini and has survived as the emblem of the American Medical Association and Veterinary medicine, where it is symbolic of life and healing. Only with the coming of Judeo/Christianity, has this sacred symbol been desecrated and blasphemed.

    Nearly all of us are familiar with the term "fallen." This word has been used copiously by Christian clergy to refer to Satan and his Demons. In truth, "fallen" pertains to the kundalini serpent (which has always been associated with our Creator God Satan), which has fallen in humanity as a whole and now lies dormant at the base of the spine. Because of this, humanity as a whole is on a very low level of spiritual understanding. Thoughtless abuses of children and animals, senseless wars, brutality and endless corruption are the results of the fallen serpent.....

    http://www.joyofsatan.com/

  • FROG E
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Satan is not equal to God...if anything, his equal might be Gabriel the Archangel.

    God doesn't demand anything from you...you are mistaken

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