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How is Satan the Adversary? Against Humanity, against YHWH, or against the Father?
I would like to know other people's views about this. So I'm asking various questions as suggestions to get a discussion started. I am not a Gnostic, and I'm not trying to promote any particular view. I simply want to learn what other people's views are, preferably views different from orthodox Christianity.
The New Testament describes Satan as "the adversary." But whose adversary? I am examining this from the POV that YHWH is the Demiurge and is evil, a usurper, who has tried to prevent Humanity from knowing and fellowshipping with the Heavenly Father. Christ in Jesus opposed and defeated YHWH the evil Demiurge, and thus restored fellowship between Humanity and the Father. So, what role does Satan play in all this?
Is Satan trying to thwart Humanity and prevent humans from knowing and fellowshipping with the Heavenly Father?
Since YHWH is the evil Demiurge, and if Satan is trying to prevent humans from fellowshipping with the Father, then it seems that Satan would be a servant of YHWH, if not YHWH himself.
With the view that YHWH is the evil "god of this world" whom Jesus defeated and "cast out" (or deposed) on the cross, if Satan opposed Jesus, then Satan would be working with YHWH. In the wilderness, was Satan tempting Jesus to abandon YHWH's plan or the Heavenly Father's plan?
Was Jesus clear from the start that his mission was to defeat YHWH and thwart YHWH's kingdom? If so, what does that reveal about Jesus' encounters with Satan?
Is it possible that YHWH forced Satan into working as a servant, a pawn in YHWH's scheme? Therefore, Satan, would have been working in humans against the Father.
Who is/was Satan? An aspect of Humanity that was enslaved and corrupted by the evil Demiurge YHWH? Or is/was Satan a higher being originally?
Is the Christian belief that Lucifer became Satan an erroneous association? If so, then who is Lucifer (if not the archangel), or what became of Lucifer?
Is Satan the Devil? Or is this another erroneous Christian conflation? Who/what is the Devil?
Which biblical and/or Gnostic scriptures clarify all this?
(Intentionally cryptic or obscure comments will be ignored.)
Thanks.
I would like to know other people's views about this. So I'm asking various questions as suggestions to get a discussion started. I am not a Gnostic, and I'm not trying to promote any particular view. I simply want to learn what other people's views are, preferably views different from orthodox Christianity.
The New Testament describes Satan as "the adversary." But whose adversary? I am examining this from the POV that YHWH is the Demiurge and is evil, a usurper, who has tried to prevent Humanity from knowing and fellowshipping with the Heavenly Father. Christ in Jesus opposed and defeated YHWH the evil Demiurge, and thus restored fellowship between Humanity and the Father. So, what role does Satan play in all this?
Is Satan trying to thwart Humanity and prevent humans from knowing and fellowshipping with the Heavenly Father?
Since YHWH is the evil Demiurge, and if Satan is trying to prevent humans from fellowshipping with the Father, then it seems that Satan would be a servant of YHWH, if not YHWH himself.
With the view that YHWH is the evil "god of this world" whom Jesus defeated and "cast out" (or deposed) on the cross, if Satan opposed Jesus, then Satan would be working with YHWH. In the wilderness, was Satan tempting Jesus to abandon YHWH's plan or the Heavenly Father's plan?
Was Jesus clear from the start that his mission was to defeat YHWH and thwart YHWH's kingdom? If so, what does that reveal about Jesus' encounters with Satan?
Is it possible that YHWH forced Satan into working as a servant, a pawn in YHWH's scheme? Therefore, Satan, would have been working in humans against the Father.
Who is/was Satan? An aspect of Humanity that was enslaved and corrupted by the evil Demiurge YHWH? Or is/was Satan a higher being originally?
Is the Christian belief that Lucifer became Satan an erroneous association? If so, then who is Lucifer (if not the archangel), or what became of Lucifer?
Is Satan the Devil? Or is this another erroneous Christian conflation? Who/what is the Devil?
Which biblical and/or Gnostic scriptures clarify all this?
(Intentionally cryptic or obscure comments will be ignored.)
Thanks.
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