Are Monotheistic Religions Truely Monotheistic?

[Zen Sensei]

Satan is not is not eternal, so he cannot be God.

So is whatever your god is. All gods or deities are created by man. If does not exist, then it may be necessary to create a god. You could worship a god of your choice and is atheistic to all other gods, but it does not follow that your god is the one and true god, unless you can prove it so. Other theist may think the god you worship is not the one and true god and thus does not exists. Shalom.

 

[Tiapan]

Angels, archangels, devils, holy ghost, god, satan, jins, seraphins, it actually needs a whole new non-biological taxonomy for all these species of mythical beasts..

 

[arthra]

For Baha'is anyway...there is no such ontological being that wars with God... such as "Satan"...rather we believe it refers to the lower nature of man...

Abdul-Baha stated:

The reality underlying this question is that the evil spirit, Satan or whatever is interpreted as evil, refers to the lower nature in man. This baser nature is symbolized in various ways. In man there are two expressions, one is the expression of nature, the other the expression of the spiritual realm.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Foundations of World Unity, p. 77)

also:

"We know absence of light is darkness, but no one would assert darkness was not a fact. It exists even though it is only the absence of something else. So evil exists too, and we cannot close our eyes to it, even though it is a negative existence. We must seek to supplant it by good, and if we see an evil person is not influenceable by us, then we should shun his company for it is unhealthy."

(From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer, October 4, 1950: Spiritualism, Psychic Phenomena and Related Subjects p. 4, a compilation from the Universal House of Justice, February 14, 1973 to National Spiritual Assemblies)

(Compilations, Lights of Guidance, p. 512)

 

[NulliuSINverba]

So my question is this, is Satan another Deity, or a convenient scapegoat?

Please define "deity."

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Caveat: I hope you'll avoid defining deity as a supernatural being that lives outside of space and time and that can influence earthly events and human actions ... because to do so would almost certainly define Satan into deity-hood.

There are limits to Satan's powers, correct? Satan isn't omnipotent, right? He can't foresee the results of human free will like God Almighty® can, right?

 

[tmThEMaN]

Satan is as powerful as an Angel except he has free will unlike Angels. But in the end, he will submit to God.
In Islam, Satan is not fighting God nor he is the bringer of Evil. He's the king of a group of Jinn that are committed to prove that Humans are not better than Jinn and vowed to whisper to humans and seduce them to commit evil and not worship God. Evil is what we do, it's not a creature.

Satan believes in God more than anyone else maybe , but he chose to challenge God that he was wrong to trust Clay made humans vs the superior Fire made Jinn.

It would be awesome if someone makes a movie around this story. Anyone knows a Novel with similar context ?