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Where did Satan come from? According to the Christian Bible it is clearly taught that the Devil and the other demons are spiritual or angelic creatures created by God in a state of innocence, and that they became evil by their own act. It is added that man sinned by the suggestion of the Devil, and that in the next world the wicked shall suffer eternal punishment with the Devil. Satan and the other demons are part of an angelic creation, and their natural powers do not differ from those of the angels who remained faithful. Like the other angels, they are pure spiritual beings without any body.
What was the fall? Who was Satan before the fall? The biblical book Ezekiel says that Satan was the perfect angel. You (referring to Satan) were the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. You were in the pleasures of the paradise of God; every precious stone was thy covering; the Sardis, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, a
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So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. The Arabic word ‘Al-Shaitaan’ means ‘the transgressor’ (Britannica #542). (NKJV)
Satan’s final end is everlasting torment. It is the incorrect use of this authority, which results in evil. Iblis became ‘the Satan’ for no other reason except using this freedom of choice for the wrong end (Britannica #542). His motive was simple, since man had caused his downfall, he will now, cause men’s downfall by misleading man in every way possible. nd the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald; gold the work of your beauty: and your pipes were prepared in the day that you were created. ' " Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. " So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. As a result of this transgression, God turned Iblis out of His court and sentenced him to punishment. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die. The Bible also tells us that humanity was created a little lower than the angels. The prophets, Isaiah, and Ezekiel, thought that Lucifer held a very high rank in the heavenly hierarchy.
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