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In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.

The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man’s challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of Gods plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.

Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God’s opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God’s opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.

Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.

Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It’s meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

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Don

Here's an example - Muslims mistranslated the xtian bible, added evil beings like jinn and lilith, and added a sexualized heaven as a reward for martyring yourself and killing as many infidels as possible. Jinn want to possess Muslims to eat drink and have sex. Lilith is responsible for nightly sexual emissions - a succubus. Women are viewed as evil and must be restrained. And Muslims claim they are the rightful xtians, and the koran is the perfect and accurate scripture, but the xtian bible, from which they plageurized, is corrupt.

Since the old testament is written after the TaNaKh, and xtianity comes after Judaism, and xtianity claims to be the real Judaism, then Judaism comes first. The Jewish TaNaKh has no hell or Satan or lucifer, so those are xtian additions.

The TaNaKh is playful, sardonic, and uses complex literary techniques to preserve Jewish teaching and USES mythology. The scripture is sealed. The sealant is mythology. The deeper message is Judaism. But if you believe in mythology, you will not be able to penetrate past the mythology.

Xtians added more mythology (weeds) and choked the word - too much mythology to see beyond the myth.

Deuteronomy 32:17 for they sacrificed to demons, that are no gods.

A fool says in his heart, there is no god.

Where is a no god? In his heart. What is a no god?

That's the playfulness that xtians read completely different.

Here's another : God gives you the desires of your heart - xtians interpret that to mean that God gives you whatever you want. Judaism really means that's how God guides us.

How can God guide the religious world that believes good versus evil when they deny and reject the desires of their heart as evil? xtians are surrounded by god, but terrified of evil surrounding them, and pray to a mangod to rescue them from evil.

Satan ("haShatan") does exist in Jewish scripture. However, it:

- isn't "evil"

- isn't "the devil" (this Christian concept doesn't meaning anything in Judaism)

- doesn't live in hell (another meaningless concept in Judaism)

- isn't G-d's foe (G-d doesn't have any foes - that would be a polytheistic scenario)

- isn't "a fallen angel" (see above)

- isn't called Lucifer (I think that's a Catholic invention)

HaShatan is G-d's emissary that is on constant watch of Jews, looking for when we trip up so as to report back to G-d. He might even set us up to make bad decisions, but if we do what's right then haShatan doesn't have an influence on us.

You can also view this as a metaphor for anything that would discourage you from following the right kind of behavior (and there are many of those in my life...)

The oldest book of the Bible is The Book of Job which tells about how Satan went to Heaven (using Adam's stolen Divinity, as Master of Mankind,) and God slung him out on the pretext that JOB (whom he'd been avoiding,) was living proof that he was NOT the Boss of ALL of Mankind.

. JOB 1:6-19.

. MATTHEW 22:1-14.

. LUKE 10:17-24.

Satan was "REAL" enough to kill all of Job's children, by manipulating the Weather, in ONE strike, and influence susceptible Humans to steal all of Job's Wealth- all on ONE day, leaving LONE survivors in each case (proving that it was clearly Supernatural).

. JOB 2:1-7.

Satan was real enough to inflict a disease upon Job, when God pointed out that he was still not qualified to Banquet in Heaven, because he had not broken Job.

Why do you Atheists form theories without checking the facts, first? What is your source of information that "Satan does not exist in Judaism?"

I can see that you claim to be Jewish.

Clearly, you are lying.

When Jesus cast out the Devils from hitherto incurable handicapped people, the jealous Jewish religious experts ruled that he must be in league with Beelzebub (the Lord of Flies).

. MATTHEW 12:22-37.

The seven sons of chief Priest Sceva, and others, tried to emulate Paul, and use his name and Jesus' Name to exorciise Devils.

. ACTS 19:13-17.

They would not do this, unless Jewish Religion recognized the existence of Satan. Nor would anyone make up such stories, if the Jews did not have such beliefs.

I surmise that you people must be being paid good money to "cast stumbling blocks before the blind" like this.

. LEVITICUS 19:14.

The New Testament teaches us that Jews are..... well, pretty much like you. MAYBE able to tell the difference between Day and Night..?

"ALL TRUTH IS PARALLEL!"

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. -Morris Cerullo.

You and your people, whoever they are, however, are..... evidently differently inclined.

1: Muslims believe that Muhammad was a prophet; I don't know much about Islam, so that's the best answer I can give. 2: Idk what you mean; I know a lot of women that don't act like Mary did 3: Christianity descended from Judaism, when Jesus came along, the group that became the Christians accepted him, while the group that became modern day Jews did not. 4: As a fellow Christian, I have to say it. It's impossible to prove or disprove the existence of God. 5: It was a miracle.

Satan exists in Judaism.

The original Hebrew term, satan, is a noun from a verb meaning primarily to, “obstruct, oppose,” as it is found in Numbers 22:22, 1 Samuel 29:4, Psalms 109:6.[6] Ha-Satan is traditionally translated as “the accuser,” or “the adversary.” The definite article “ha-,” English “the," is used to show that this is a title bestowed on a being, versus the name of a being. Thus this being would be referred to as “the satan.”[7]

Thirteen occurrences

Ha-Satan with the definite article occurs 13 times in the Masoretic Text, in two books of the Hebrew Bible:

Job ch.1–2 (10x),[8]

Zechariah 3:1–2 (3x).[9]

Satan without the definite article is used in 10 instances, of which two are translated diabolos in the Septuagint and "Satan" in the King James Version:

1 Chronicles 21:1, "Satan stood up against Israel" (KJV) or "And there standeth up an adversary against Israel" (Young's Literal Translation)[10]

Psalm 109:6b "and let Satan stand at his right hand" (KJV)[11] or "let an accuser stand at his right hand." (ESV, etc.)

The other eight instances of satan without the definite article are traditionally translated (in Greek, Latin and English) as "an adversary," etc., and taken to be humans or obedient angels:

Numbers 22:22,32 "and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him."

32 "behold, I went out to withstand thee,"

1 Samuel 29:4 The Philistines say: "lest he [David] be an adversary against us"

2 Samuel 19:22 David says: "[you sons of Zeruaiah] should this day be adversaries (plural) unto me?"

1 Kings 5:4 Solomon writes to Hiram: "there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent."

1 Kings 11:14 "And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite"[12]

1 Kings 11:23 "And God stirred him up an adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah"

25 "And he [Rezon] was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon"

He does not exist . People misinterpret the bible and come up with this rubbish . However the Christians are led to believe that he is a bad person who will hurt them for their sins . Its disgusting flagrant abuse of power in 21st century that anyone thinks this.

In the book of Job Moses wrote about Satan.

(Job 1:6, 7) . . .Now it came to be the day when the sons of the [true] God entered to take their station before Jehovah, and even Satan proceeded to enter right among them. 7 Then Jehovah said to Satan: “Where do you come from?” At that Satan answered Jehovah and said: “From roving about in the earth and from walking about in it.”

(Job 2:3-5) . . .And Jehovah went on to say to Satan: “Have you set your heart upon my servant Job, that there is no one like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, fearing God and turning aside from bad? Even yet he is holding fast his integrity, although you incite me against him to swallow him up without cause.” 4 But Satan answered Jehovah and said: “Skin in behalf of skin, and everything that a man has he will give in behalf of his soul. 5 For a change, thrust out your hand, please, and touch as far as his bone and his flesh [and see] whether he will not curse you to your very face.”

That the book of Job is authentic and inspired is also proved in that the ancient Hebrews always included it in their Bible canon, a fact remarkable in that Job himself was not an Israelite.

Why do we say Moses was the writer? This is according to the oldest tradition, among both Jewish and early Christian scholars. The vigorous authentic style of Hebrew poetry used in the book of Job makes it evident that it was an original composition in Hebrew, the language of Moses.

Also the prophet Zechariah wrote about Satan.

(Zechariah 3:2) Then [the angel of] Jehovah said to Satan: “Jehovah rebuke you, O Satan, yes, Jehovah rebuke you, he who is choosing Jerusalem! Is this one not a log snatched out of the fire?”

Satan has been mentioned in Gods word Before Jesus walked the earth. Mentioned in the old and new testament.

Satan is the human ego. He is the voice that tempts you seek greed and all those things of the "sinful" nature. He is selfish -- He is the ego of man. Please ponder that. Think of what Satan is. Now think of what the human ego is.

Judaism he doesn´t exist.

no

sorry

you are wrong

read eden genesis the snake