Learn If Satan Is God’s Rival Today!
18th December 2023
In this article, we are going to answer the question: Is Satan God’s Rival? How do we know he is or he is not God’s rival, why it is important to study this topic, and finally, what you think about it, personally? When you hear people talk, it seems they are alluding that Satan and God do challenge each other from time to time. For example, Satan was cast down from heaven only for him to come and destroy God’s plans on earth by taking His people captive. Read this article for the answers.
Is Satan God’s Rival?
In the Book of Job in the Bible, Satan was described as if he was one of God’s sons who went to meet or have a meal of some kind of meeting with God. In most of the Bible stories, he is depicted as the deceiver, the enemy of God and His people whose goal is to steal, kill, and to destroy according to Jesus’ own words in John 10:10.
“Some people believe that God and Satan are equals. They might worship God in preference to Satan, because God represents good. On the other hand they might not blame Satan for his evil, believing that without Satan’s evil, God’s goodness couldn’t be known.” ~ simplybible.com.
But does this mean Satan is indeed God’s antagonist rival? If he attacks God in a way to try to prove God wrong or weak, that’s an act of adversary and enmity. That puts Satan in a place of a rival, an enemy of God and His people or world. If Satan reports our every wrongdoing to God, he is but our accuser, an enemy, not a brother.
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But does this mean Satan can truly challenge God as if he is able to confront and fight against God and be able to stand the fight? If so, then he has power and the ability almost similar to that of God, and some people would then choose to worship Satan instead of God, if at all they are bloody rivals like two women, rivaling over one man.
However, Satan is a creature, not another creator similar to God in power or ability. For this reason, Satan is not God’s rival. We are told he was one of the most glorious angels of God who then used that glory to defy God. But how can we be sure after all? How can we know that what we read the Bible is as real as we read it?
These are higher questions for us to answer at the moment. I don’t literally know the answers. However, it seems we need what is called revelation knowledge for us to know exactly what happened in the olden world. Our scientific knowledge is partial knowledge, not complete or personal knowledge, but epignosis is much more complete and reliable than any other kind of knowledge because it’s spiritual at core.
We don’t even know if hell is a real place or a figure of speech designed to help understand how it will be like to be separated from the holy God forever. How can we know for sure if Satan is one of the sons of God who is still having access to God’s presence even now? How do we know if God actually uses Satan, the death angel, to carry out His punishment, His judgment on the earth? This is because in the Bible we are told many times of how God would send a death angel to kill people.
How Do We Know That Satan Is God’s Rival?
Mostly, we learn about Satan in detail in the Bible. The Quran mentioned so many things, but for a full and complete detail, read the Bible. In the Bible, we read many stories that make Satan God’s true enemy and rival, an antagonist because God seems to be the winner, all the time. God is the protagonist to Satan in those stories.
But in the Africa Religion, there is nothing compared with God and that means nothing and no one is able to confront God with power and ability to challenge Him or Her. The early Africans didn’t have a word for Satan, but they knew evil acts that God Himself must punish. When God punishes or when He causes or makes evil to occur, it’s described as God’s punishment, not satanic activity.
Whatever agents God might use, that’s not the issue. God is still the reason behind the events, here on earth, and that was our African worldview. In Africa, there was no concept of heaven or hell, but these came with Christianity and Islam, the two of the known Abrahamic religions beside Judaism.
As mentioned earlier, if Satan is almost equal to God in knowledge, wisdom, power and might, then others would have known him to be their god. Of course, it seems there are many gods with different abilities, and the Bible is clear about this. However, are these smaller gods’ manifestations of Satan and his host of fallen evil angels?
How on earth do we know all evil events are caused by Satan and his angels? We have but little to no knowledge about the causes of sickness even though modern science is trying hard, all the time. We don’t know what causes certain types of cancer even at the time of this writing in 2023. This makes life mysterious, doesn’t it?
I personally don’t want to believe that Satan is equal with God that he can challenge God as a rival, but am I right? How do I know he is not His rival when we hear of deadly viruses each time? What about these major and minor world wars? Are they not the proofs of satanic activities on earth, God’s own earth? When are these evil deeds coming to an end and the peace Isaiah talks about comes to earth?
Is It Important to Know If Satan Is God’s Rival?
We need to know if Satan is God’s rival or not. This is important. It is important because we need to believe in the right thing as long as we can. This is because wrong beliefs lead to wrong behaviors that affect humanity in many negative ways. Because many people see Satan as God’s main rival, they may choose to give him half of the honor.
Even if you and I no longer believe in these things, millions of people still do, and it’s important for us to learn more about these old beliefs in the modern world. Indeed, as mentioned earlier, our human knowledge, our scientific knowledge is always limited to some extent. But these abstract things are impossible to prove.
We still need to know what other humans believe in regardless of whether those beliefs are based on a solid evidence or not. This is because beliefs affect those who own them, as well as those who live with those who hold those beliefs so dear. For this reason, it’s important for us to study these beliefs from the sources we have access to.
The main challenge with the issue of Satan being God’s main enemy in Africa is that we don’t have source for or against it. The continent seems to be blind or silent about this topic. All the information we have about God and Satan is from foreign religions, the Christian Religion and Islamic Religion. Even Judaism doesn’t seem to say much about Satan and whether he’s God’s rival or son.
What Do You Think About This Article?
Now, what is your say on this topic? In other words, what do you think about this article in general? Do you think Satan is God’s rival in the sense that he also can challenge God as if he has almost equal powers with God? Do you agree that we don’t any information in Africa about God before the coming of Christianity and Islam?
These are reflective questions for you to answer from your heart. Their main purpose is to help you think deeply about the topic at hand. This also means you have your own say, your own stand for each and every subject. But is that knowledge based on facts? In other words, how do you know that what you know is true?
You are free to believe either way. I am also free to think that Satan is not God’s rival in that sense of the term because of what the sources that I have consulted seem to teach about him. Satan appears to be God’s child, one of His children who still have access to God and can talk to Him and with Him face to face. This to me means Satan is not able to challenge his father, someone bigger and possibly stronger than him.
You too might have your own opinion and you are free to have one. However, how do you get to that opinion or how did it got to you? As I said earlier, my opinion comes from the Bible, the verses I have read. But as people around be talk or write about Satan and God, they make it very clear that they fear Satan, sometimes more than they fear or revere God. That makes me wonder and marvel at them and their actions.
Conclusion
In summary, you have learn whether Satan is God’s rival or not, how we come to that knowledge, why it is important for us to study this topic, and finally, what you personally think about this article. What have you learned from this article? What did you know before reading it?
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Further Readings
- Satan is not an “evil god” who rivals God’s power—aleteia.org
- Satan and the origin of evil—britannica.com
- Is Satan Equal to God?—simplybible.com
