Satan

[OakWood]

Indirectly, Satan is behind all sin and evil. But directly? No, not often. We are given free will. Satan cannot make us do anything. Quite often people sin of their own accord. If you're looking for temptation though, Satan is more than ready to please. His primary weapon is deceit and he is more than willing to mislead the misguided.

A few people however, will be possessed, and they can do a tremendous amount of damage on Satan's behalf. Most of the wrongdoing in this World is done by mankind, but if you find a great evil occurring and follow the chain upward, you will often find that there is someone at the top who started it all and who is directly under the influence of Satan or his minions.

[missmuffet]

Satan seems to get directly blamed for an awful lot of things.  My impression from the words of some Christians is that every time any person belongs to another religion they have been deceived directly by Satan himself.  That every time a child from a Christian home grows up to become an atheist, Satan himself had taken them by the hand and led them away.  That Satan is behind every law which the denominations feel does not align with Gods law.  That Satan's hand was even on the life of every terrorist.  So, my question is this.  Does, in your view,  Satan have an omnipresence on the scale of God?  Or is it perhaps sin, a separation from God, which plagues the world and Satan isn't quite as directly involved as some would imply?

No,only God has omnipresence.Satan does not.It is sin and satan which separates us from God.

[other one]

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/discoveringthetruth/2013/07/31/interview-with-a-former-illumined-one-part-6

 

if you have the time you could learn a lot about the workings of Satan in the world today, but more importantly how to overcome what spiritual powers he has here now.  Carolyn has been a cyber friend for many years.

[goldust59]

Thanks for the link Other One!!

[JohnD]

The gist of the latter verses of John 8 are that the devil is the father of lies and murder and sin and when one sins they do the work of the devil. 

 

Also the universe and eternity are divided in two camps "God's way" and "Not God's way."

 

When anyone goes against God's way they are in "Not God's way." And the devil is the first and father of not God's way.

 

This is how Jesus could say to Peter Get thee behind me Satan... Peter reverted to human thinking and that is not God's way and therefore of the devil...

[JohnD]

I believe a fascinating discussion could be on the topic of the incarnation of Satan.

 

Luke 22:3 (KJV)
3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.

 

John 13:26-27 (KJV)
26 Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.

 

People read over this so lightly and dismiss what comes next (or what doesn't come) what happens to the devil when Judas hanged himself?

 

And the so-called remorse of Judas... this is Satan incarnate who is sorry for betraying Jesus?

 

Since the topic was so broad and undefined... care to discuss this here?

 

"Sweet dreams... hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm..." Vincent Price voice.

[Sanh]

  Does, in your view,  Satan have an omnipresence on the scale of God?  Or is it perhaps sin, a separation from God, which plagues the world and Satan isn't quite as directly involved as some would imply?

 

No, Satan does not have an omnipresence capacity as God does have, he (Satan) is just a finite spirit being branded by many as the father of lies, sins, and lawlessness thus the typical blame for him for committed acts of sins and lawlessness. Satan per se is not directly involved in all of the worlwide commitment of sins and lawlessness but maybe only to a few of them. People themselves are partly to blame for those unlawful acts commited worlwide.

Edited August 13, 2013 by Sanh

[other one]

 

.  Does, in your view,  Satan have an omnipresence on the scale of God?  Or is it perhaps sin, a separation from God, which plagues the world and Satan isn't quite as directly involved as some would imply?

"No" to the omnipresence, however he does have millions of fallen entities that assist him in his quests.

[TsukinoRei]

Wow, thanks for all your answers guys.  And thanks for the link, Other One.  It's taking me ages to research all the content.