Old Testiment Satan

[Zkribbler]

My Biblical scholastics aren't what they should be, so help me out here.

I remember Satan appears in Genesis, as the serpent. But after that, I don't recall his appearing in the Bible until the New Testiment, when he tries to tempt Jesus in the Wilderness.

Is here really that absent from the vast majority of the Old Testiment??

As if so, does anyone have theories on why?

[Tuberski]

Do you have any idea how much a plane ticket from hell costs?!?!?!

ACK!

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Tuberski
Do you have any idea how much a plane ticket from hell costs?!?!?!

ACK!

I thought there was express elevator service?

[Geronimo]

Re: Old Testiment Satan

Originally posted by Zkribbler
My Biblical scholastics aren't what they should be, so help me out here.

I remember Satan appears in Genesis, as the serpent. But after that, I don't recall his appearing in the Bible until the New Testiment, when he tries to tempt Jesus in the Wilderness.

Is here really that absent from the vast majority of the Old Testiment??

As if so, does anyone have theories on why?

Job too. maybe that helps.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Geronimo


I thought there was express elevator service?

It's one way...... the wrong way.

ACK!

[civman2000]

I've never read it, but I don't think there's any association between Satan and the snake in the Old Testament. Really, the snake story is just an origin myth explaining why snakes don't have legs. Satan is mentioned occasionally in the Old Testament as sort of the guy who does God's dirty work, when God wants to make evil things happen to challenge humans, IIRC. The Hebrew word just means "adversary". Satan is not a major character in the Old Testament, he's just an agent of God (technically an angel, but angels in the Old Testament are just automata that do God's bidding).

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan#In_the_Hebrew_Bible says basically what I said except in more detail and minus the rambling.

Perhaps a good way of summarizing it all is that in the Old Testament, Satan is not the devil but merely a devil's advocate.

[Bkeela]

I have read the Bible, so I can confidently state there is a definite assocation between the Serpent and Satan - they are one in the same.

[Nostromo]

What the Bible doesn't say is that his first name is Miroslav and he's a hockey player.

[Urban Ranger]

The serpent is just a critter tempting Eve. There's no expressed or implied connection between it and Satan.

[OzzyKP]

Re: Re: Old Testiment Satan

Originally posted by Geronimo


Job too. maybe that helps.

Yea, from what I remember he was quite promenant in the book of Job.

[CrONoS]

Ezechiel 28

[civman2000]

Originally posted by Bkeela
I have read the Bible, so I can confidently state there is a definite assocation between the Serpent and Satan - they are one in the same.

In the OT? I think that's a NT thing only...

[CrONoS]

Ezekiel 28 explains pretty much the fall of Lucifer.
The greatest archangel after Mickael! I dont know if Lucifer = Satan.

[CrONoS]

Isaie 14,3 Isaie in english...???

Isaiah 14,3
Specially Isaiah 14,12

[CrONoS]

The two sentences I gave to you; even if they dont directly refers to Lucifer or Satan. Are mostly believed to be about them.