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Where do people get the idea that "Satan" is the source of all the "bad" in the world?
For some reason I can't understand, I'm watching Ancient Aliens and the new episode is about "Satan being an Alien" and they keep talking about how Satan and his minions murdered their way across the bible… How he is the cause of all the evil… How he is trying to get people to go to hell because HE RULES in hell…
NONE of this is based in what the bible ACTUALLY bloody says… But these are also common threads of belief in the Average Christian as well as the Ancient Alien nuts.
Lets look at the facts:
1. It appears that Satan only killed 10 people in the bible: the seven sons and three daughters of Job. (And he only does this because god allowed it as part of a bet!) While "God" is estimated to have killed between 33,041,220 and 2.8 million people in the Bible. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread602571/p... " God makes the Devil look like a veritable saint in comparison."
2. The Bible is quite clear that everything, all the good and all the bad, all the sins and all the virtue, all the righteous and all the evil, come from and are directly controlled by God, not Satan. The Bible even says that people can be "Possessed by the evil spirit of the Lord". Not "Possessed by demons" or "Satan" or "The Devil" but by the "Evil Spirit Of God".
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✞✞✞ "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." (Isaiah 45:7)
✞✞✞ "And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him." (I Samuel 16:23)
✞✞✞ "And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand." (I Samuel 19:9)
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3. Satan doesn't "Rule Hell".The bible says that it was created first to punish Satan and the other Angels and then as a place to torture "beasts and false prophets."
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✞✞✞ "God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into chains of darkness to be held for judgment." (2 Peter 2:4)
✞✞✞ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels! (Matthew 25:41)
✞✞✞ "And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 13:42)
✞✞✞ "And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are too, and they will be tormented there day and night forever and ever." (Revelation 20:10).
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That's right, chains and prisons... for Satan. No iron fortresses, no fiery thrones, no mention of Satan ruling the cell block... all of that is from the Bible's extended universe and fan fiction...
Soooooo…
Where does it say that Satan "Sends his demons" out to posses people?
Where does it say that Satan "Murders" lost of people?
Where does it say that God isn't able to stop all the evil things "Demons" make people do?
Why does it say, in the Torah and Bible, that "God" creates all the evil in the world?
Why does it always come back to Non-Believers knowing FAR MORE about your holy texts than most believers do?
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Disclaimer: Yes. Satan is imaginary. I'm asking believers in the God/Satan myth why so many people believe what is more along the lines of Fan-Fiction than what is ACTUALLY contained in their holy texts.
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9 Answers
- MikeLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
I don't know. People can sin perfectly fine without Satan. Satan simply adds fuel to the fire.
- VexedLv 68 years ago
Is that a new episode? I swear I saw an episode like that over a year ago. They do repeat stuff a lot, though. I guess now would be as good a time as any to admit that Ancient Aliens is one of my guilty pleasures >__>
Anyway, they believe that because the Bible says so. Satan is the one who tempted Eve in the Bible and whatnot.
Clearly God is the evil one, though. Realizing that is part of what made me leave the faith.
- 8 years ago
Shut the f'uck up you stuid f'ucking illiterate ****. Your one of those ape elievers. Get some true F'uking logic and stop playing around on the f'ucking computer all day with your f'ucking triple chin eating cheatos you overweight mother f'ucker. I hope you die fro diabieties, and dnt ver bring it the f'uck up ever again. Because if i did see you, id beat th living f'ucking **** out of you. Dont test me white b'itch. Now go do something useful and go f'uck your father. Funny you talk about grammar when you cant even spell your self. Dont ever f'uck with me again, or you will get what is f'ucking comming to you. F'ucking iledgible btch.
- KeithLv 78 years ago
He is really manifested in your denials, so that makes him real to me. You are a living breathing human being under the influence of blindness of the works of the Enemy of Man Satan
Source(s): the holy Bible KJV - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- Anonymous8 years ago
culture has mixed in allot of paganism into the mix for the media to get a good twist out of it.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Sin is the source of all the "bad" in the world
- Mr. BluelightLv 78 years ago
People need a scapegoat. They don't want to take blame for their own actions.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Wanna know the true source of evil? Your mind is.