05-17-2010, 04:21 PM
Shlama,
hasatan is not a lesser deity, not ruling in hell, and obviously doesn't have a pointed tail or carry a pitchfork. these are definitely a more paganistic interpretation / tainted portrait of him than Scripture ever even hints at giving. a believer who does his homework finds that hasatan is not much like the way he is portrayed in modern culture or religion.
he is a keruv - a high angelic-like entity created by the Father for a specific purpose. from what i can tell from Scripture (Gen. 3:1), he is the highest of the created beings that are not mankind - for man alone bears the image of the Holy One.
as best i can surmise, Ezekiel 28 (the reader need understand the import of the Hebrew text's use to two different spellings for "Tyre" in this passage) and Isaiah 14 are both more detailed explanations of what happened to him in Genesis 3 -- the fall of man being consonant with the fall of hasatan. i just don't buy the Scripturally-unmerited "fell before the creation of the world" scenario. sticking to Scripture puts his fall being the scenario we read about all the time of the fall of man.
he's now serving a different function than before; the Accuser. as the Aramaic likes to call him, he is the "Eater of Slander." or as the Greek likes to call him, he is the "Categorizer." he does his job as he has been assigned, in hatred towards the things of Alaha, and in hatred towards man. he is on a leash, a very firm leash, and cannot go beyond his boundaries.
my brief take on the matter...
Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy
hasatan is not a lesser deity, not ruling in hell, and obviously doesn't have a pointed tail or carry a pitchfork. these are definitely a more paganistic interpretation / tainted portrait of him than Scripture ever even hints at giving. a believer who does his homework finds that hasatan is not much like the way he is portrayed in modern culture or religion.
he is a keruv - a high angelic-like entity created by the Father for a specific purpose. from what i can tell from Scripture (Gen. 3:1), he is the highest of the created beings that are not mankind - for man alone bears the image of the Holy One.
as best i can surmise, Ezekiel 28 (the reader need understand the import of the Hebrew text's use to two different spellings for "Tyre" in this passage) and Isaiah 14 are both more detailed explanations of what happened to him in Genesis 3 -- the fall of man being consonant with the fall of hasatan. i just don't buy the Scripturally-unmerited "fell before the creation of the world" scenario. sticking to Scripture puts his fall being the scenario we read about all the time of the fall of man.
he's now serving a different function than before; the Accuser. as the Aramaic likes to call him, he is the "Eater of Slander." or as the Greek likes to call him, he is the "Categorizer." he does his job as he has been assigned, in hatred towards the things of Alaha, and in hatred towards man. he is on a leash, a very firm leash, and cannot go beyond his boundaries.
my brief take on the matter...
Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy