Subject: Does Satan Really Exist? |
Bible Note: Thank you drbloor for your posts of 17th, and 19th of Jan 06. In reply let me comment as follows. You ask if Satan is a person or not, you then state that the word Satan means adversary, this of course is correct, you then go on to say "there was a adversary in Job, and I am certain he was a person", Thereby answering the very question you had just asked? You state that Isaiah Ch 14, and Ezekiel Ch 28 refer to to men only, and not to Satan, if this is so then please explain how the king of Babylon fell from Heaven as described in verse 12? In Ezekiel 28:13, how did the king of Tyre get into the "Eden, the garden of God"? Now regardind Divine permission, in my ESV Bibly, Job 2:6, reads, And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life", please tell me how this can be considered as anything other than Divine permission?. God also uses the personal pronoun "your". indicating that He, God is speaking to a person, and not something other that a person. |