Quote:Satan serves as a servant of YHVH, with whom he also shares a philosophy of black and white. Satan is commonly associated with temptation of God, and is often portrayed as judgmental.Wait...something tells me this isn't what you are looking for.
On a (potentially) more accurate note, from the same page:
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Satan is a prominent figure in the Abrahamic religions, playing various roles in their literature. He may either be depicted as a rebel to the will of God, or as one who tempts mankind to commit sin to show God that mankind can easily be led astray from Him. In Judaism, particularly in the Book of Job and the Kabbalah, Satan is even able to take control of the life of a person in the stead of God, though only to a limited extent to what God allows. Satan would appear to those who are sinful, playing into their hearts and towing them into despair. In Christian literature other than the Bible, when God commanded the angels to bow to the first human, Adam, Satan (then an angel called Lucifer or Helel) rallied other angels against this command with the belief that angels are above all other creations. He and other "fallen angels" fought against the forces of God and were utterly defeated; as a result, Satan was cast down into hell.
I would say that he is only a 'servant' in the sense of being a cosmological pawn in god's master plan. But aren't we all?
If god has a plan and is omniscient, he must have created Satan to deliberately orchestrate the fall and the events in the Book of Revelation.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
